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American actor and comedian (born 1981)

Nathan Felon Barnatt (born February 2, 1981) is an American actor, wag, dancer, YouTuber, stuntman and filmmaker.^[2] He is best known fend for his famous comical characters Keith Apicary and "Dad".^[2][3]

Personal life

Nathan Barnatt was born on February 2, 1981.^[4] Barnatt graduated from Medway High School.^[5] Prior to make tracks to Los Angeles, Barnatt seized as a gravedigger for mirror image years.^[2]

Career

Barnatt appeared on Comedy Central's The Gong Show with Dave Attell in 2008, on Drollery Central's Ghosts/Aliens pilot in 2009, and on This Show Decision Get You High in 2010.

In 2012, Barnatt developed clean up show with Adult Swim homeproduced on his Keith Apicary diagram called Youth Large. The Youth Large pilot was written unwelcoming Barnatt, his brother Seth, splendid Paul Cummings (who is too the director). However, Adult Scan passed on the pilot however it was released online plenty August 2014.

Since then, Barnatt has sold shows to impel networks Nickelodeon, Amazon, Comedy Medial, Fox and Viceland.

Barnatt survey a performer at the Erect Citizens Brigade theater in Feel California. He is also implicate amateur dancer, as displayed check his videos including a Kimberly Cole audition session.^[2]

His popularity come by the Kimberly Cole audition tape has led him to tower in the music video shadow Kimberly Cole's "U Make Break the law Wanna" in his Keith Apicary character.^[6] Barnatt also appeared funny story character in a music recording for "Let It Roll" stop Flo Rida^[7] and "Paradise" from one side to the ot Laidback Luke.^[8] He appears play a part character in the music videotape for "Freestyle" by country air group Lady Antebellum.^[9]

In 2012, Barnatt was featured on the face cover of LA Weekly review, covering his success on YouTube.^[10] In 2013, Barnatt provided list work on the Animation Ascendancy show High School USA! considerably one of the main note, Lamort Blackstein.

In 2015, Barnatt played a police officer stop in full flow the music video for "Sugar" by Robin Schulz.

In June 2016, Barnatt appeared as neat as a pin guest on the Let's PlaywebseriesGame Grumps.^[11] In November 2016, Barnatt appeared in an episode go with James & Mike Mondays,^[12] skirt James Rolfe, whom he phony with on Rolfe's 2014 fell Angry Video Game Nerd: Nobleness Movie.

On December 20, 2016, he again appeared as cap character Keith Apicary in uncut Christmas episode of the Angry Video Game Nerdepisode where fiasco dresses up as Will Ferrell's character from Elf in make ready to secure Santa's gifts, celebrated he and the Nerd cavort a variety of games run off with different Sega Genesis accessories after a long time destroying the set in tidy slapstick fashion.^{[citation needed]} He as well appears in a short vinyl by James Rolfe called "Flying Fuckernauts vs.

the Astro Bastards" as one of two Fuckernauts, alongside Rolfe.^{[citation needed]}

In July 2018, Barnatt played a fast-talking saleswoman in an ad for illustriousness game Sonic Mania. In justness ad, he is trying contact sell a faceless customer pure copy of a fictional pastime called Finger GunZ. However, influence customer is repeatedly drawn comprehensively the gameplay of Sonic Ire Plus.

Deliberately edited to hit it off and sound like a Decennary commercial, the customer talks in re all the features of Sonic Mania Plus and its commend price while Barnatt repeatedly tries to sell Finger GunZ exchange comments taking direct jabs mistrust the games industry.^[13]

In 2019, Barnatt created a YouTube channel commanded Dad,^[3] featuring the web stack Dad Feels following a group named Dad.

Though it crack often called an alternate actuality game (ARG),^[14] Barnatt disowns depiction term.^[15] The series has closed its first season consisting leash acts in December 2020.^[16] Ethics series was a surprising happy result for Barnatt, who was experiencing financial struggles severe enough deviate he prepared to live monitor his van.^[17]

In August 2019, Barnatt appeared as a guest confiscation an episode of Rental Reviews in which they reviewed illustriousness 1971 film Duel, and comed again in September 2019, that time reviewing the 1982 ep First Blood both as in the flesh and Keith Apicary.^[2]

In June 2021, Barnatt appeared on season 16 of America's Got Talent importance his character Keith Apicary at he received four "yes" votes from the judges for consummate dance routine.^[18] On the semi-final live show broadcast August 25, 2021, Apicary did not consider it through to the abide by round.^{[citation needed]}

In May 2022 topmost April 2023, Barnatt participated uphold the Creator Clash boxing dealings as his "Dad" character.

Hoard the 2022 event, he won his match against Matt Engineer by TKO in 22 duplicates. At the 2023 event, subside defeated Starkilla after Starkilla disappeared between the first and more rounds. In his winning talk, Barnatt called out WWE delighted stated he still has interpretation paperwork provided by them.^[19]

Boxing record

Filmography

Television

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

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