Nate Bargatze, the clean-comedy headliner who was the highest-grossing stand-up of 2024, brought his Big Dumb Eyes World Tour to the Eventim Apollo for two shows.
Nate Bargatze, the American comedian who sold more than a million tickets on his Be Funny Tour, played the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith on Saturday 12 April 2025. A matinee was added to the evening show because of demand.
Bargatze was born in Nashville in 1979, the son of a clown and magician. He was reading water meters in Tennessee when he and a colleague quit to try comedy, and he started at open mics in 2002.
He moved to New York in 2004 and handed out flyers for the Boston Comedy Club in exchange for stage time. Comedy Central released his first hour, Full Time Magic, in 2015.
His breakthrough came in 2017, when the first episode of the Netflix series The Standups carried his set. The Tennessee Kid followed on Netflix in 2019, and his deadpan, clean style made him the highest-grossing stand-up of 2024.
The Hammersmith dates were the London stop of his Big Dumb Eyes World Tour. When they were announced, the industry’s touring tables ranked him twelfth in live ticket sales across every genre, in the company of Coldplay and U2.