Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind

From one of the hottest stand-up comedians Nate Bargatze brings his everyman comedy to book form in this hilarious collection of personal stories opinions and confessions. Nate Bargatze used to be a genius. That is until the summer after seventh grade when he slipped fell off a cliff hit his head on a rock and “my skull got like dented or something.” Before this accident he dreamed of being “an electric engineer or a doctor that does brain stuff or a math teacher who teaches the hardest math on earth.” Afterwards all he could do was stand-up comedy.* But the “brain stuff” industry’s loss is everyone else’s gain because Nate went on to become one of today’s top-grossing comedians breaking both attendance and streaming records. ​In his highly anticipated first book Nate talks about life as a non-genius. From stories about his first car (named Old Blue a clunky Mazda with a tennis ball stick shift) and his travels as a Southerner (Northerners like t