{"id":1579,"date":"2017-02-15T16:12:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T21:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2017-02-15T16:12:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T21:12:55","slug":"dot-podcast-ep-20-comedian-nick-vatterott-on-being-strange-new-music-from-the-chandler-travis-philharmonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2017\/02\/15\/dot-podcast-ep-20-comedian-nick-vatterott-on-being-strange-new-music-from-the-chandler-travis-philharmonic\/","title":{"rendered":"DoT Podcast EP 20: Comedian Nick Vatterott on Being Strange, New Music from the Chandler Travis Philharmonic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Vatterott<\/a> doesn’t like being strange for the sake of being strange. He won the Andy Kaufman Award in 2011, but he’s uncomfortable with the idea that his own best work, or Kaufman’s for that matter, was about doing something off the wall with no inherent payoff or punchline. That’s what makes the strangeness work — it’s leading up to something. Vatterott got his comedy training in Chicago, never thinking there was a hard divide between stand-up, improv, and sketch comedy. They’re all supposed to be funny, right? So why limit yourself. Do all of them. That’s part of what makes him so intriguing as a comedian. If you’ve never seen him, here’s a quick sample, his set from The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon<\/em><\/a>. You can also find his latest album, For Amusement Only<\/em>, on his Web site<\/a>. <\/p>\n