Nate Bargatze's Full Slate

Nate Bargatze is back with a full slate. Big Dumb Eyes World Tour dates at natelland.com. The Greatest Average American on ABC and Hulu. And The Breadwinner, his first stand-up movie, hitting theaters soon.

The Breadwinner is a modern Mr. Mom. Bargatze is a John Hughes guy, Home Alone, Mr. Mom, Planes Trains and Automobiles, and this film fits his act. Mandy Moore plays his wife. She invents something, goes on Shark Tank, and he stays home to raise the kids. The first month is a big adjustment. Will Forte and Kumail Nanjiani are in the cast. Bargatze calls Forte one of his favorites.

The conversation turns to what he and Rich are actually good at at home. Bargatze lands on logistics. Mapping things out. Making decisions when his wife cannot. And Disney. He can map a park day, cluster Animal Kingdom stops, and keep the family moving. He is also good at fun, which is how the Grego story arrives. A dice game, first to 100, snake eyes penalties. He put 20 bucks on it with his daughter, his niece, and his nephew. His niece hit 99, rolled double ones, went back to zero, started bawling. His daughter won at 97 and started bawling because she had taken the money from her cousin. Everybody cried. He split the pot.

Rich counters with breakfast. Scrambled eggs. Pancakes labeled Daddy's Famous. Bargatze does not cook at all. Peanut butter and jelly. Tostino's pizza, pulled out right when the preheat indicator clicks off. He can gas up to the penny. He can put air in a tire. Changing a tire is a different story. Rented a car in Indianapolis, got a flat, found no spare in the trunk, and took a roadside nap against a guardrail while waiting for help. He tried to teach his five-year-old how to change a tire once outside Nashville and it turned into a two-hour nightmare. She does not remember it.

The Greatest Average American is his ABC game show, built around polling the audience and asking contestants to bet on what Bargatze himself knows. Grand prize is the average American salary, 67,920 dollars, plus 10 thousand, plus taxes. On the golf course he shot 80 the last day of the American Century Championship and beat Ray Allen, who he says still owes him money. He played with Charles Barkley the day Barkley hit the shot that looked like it bounced off a stanchion but actually spun in. The Netflix Is a Joke festival special is taping at the Intuit Dome. Everything is on at once, which is exactly where Bargatze wants to be.