Brian Bates: Worried<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is produced by Nate Bargatze\u2019s Nateland Entertainment, Matt Schuler, Jarad Clement and Tristan Swang. Exec producers include Bargatze, Adrian Kulp and Jordan Levy.<\/p>\n\n\tBates worked for nearly 20 years in corporate America until at the age of 43, he gave up his day job to pivot into a career as a stand-up comedian. Since then, the Nashville-based comic has been touring the country performing at clubs, theaters, corporate events and churches.<\/p>\n
\n\tAn originating member of Bargatze\u2019s\u00a0Nateland Podcast<\/em>, Bates served as a host and producer during the show\u2019s six-year run. He now works with fellow comedians Aaron Weber and Dusty Slay as one of the hosts and producers of\u00a0The Public Figures Podcast<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\tBates has previously released the Dry Bar Comedy specials\u00a0Uber Important<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Hello Folks<\/em>, performs regularly at the Grand Ole Opry, and can be heard frequently on Pure Comedy Channel 98 on SiriusXM satellite radio. He made his acting debut with a couple of episodes of Amazon\u2019s\u00a0Sprung<\/em>\u00a0and most recently appeared in Bargatze\u2019s TriStar comedy\u00a0The Breadwinner<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\tBates is repped by Reliant Talent Agency.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Comedian Brian Bates is set to debut a new special,\u00a0Worried, via Nateland Entertainment\u2018s YouTube channel Friday, July 24 at 4 p.m. CT\/5 p.m. ET. In the hour, filmed at The Lab at Zanies in Nashville, Bates puts a lifetime of overthinking, awkward encounters and people-pleasing toward reflections on getting married and becoming a first-time father […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2512726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[495750,495751,495752,305992],"class_list":["post-2512725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-brian-bates","tag-brian-bates-worried","tag-nateland-entertainment","tag-stand-up-comedy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Brian-Bates-Worried-Special-Sets-YouTube-Premiere-Date-EXCLUSIVE.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512727,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512725\/revisions\/2512727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2512726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}