Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again
Great Falls, MT
by Reggie Watts
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0593472462 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 42.62 MB
by Reggie Watts
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0593472462 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 42.62 MB
Comedian and musician Reggie Watts shares his story of growing up in Montana as a biracial oddball struggling to navigate life, girls, drugs, and his own identity in America’s heartland—and having a blast doing it.
Reggie Watts is weird. But you knew that. Anyone who’s seen his multifaceted, entirely improvised comedy and music shows knows that. Reggie Watts is also from the town of Great Falls, MT.
These two facts are not unrelated.
Watts grew up in Montana in the ‘80s, half French, half American, half white, half Black, speaking a bunch of different languages and slipping between the orchestra geeks and the football jocks until he finally found a squad of fellow misfits with an affinity for trouble. It was a wide-open time and place that invited freedom and exploration—as well as car theft and the not infrequent use of recreational cough syrup. And it helped him become the uniquely strange creative…