Nate Bargatze Breaks Attendance and Revenue Records at ExtraMile Arena 2025

Nate Bargatze Show at ExtraMile Arena Breaks Records nun The Nate Bargatze show at the ExtraMile Arena happened and it broke records.

Comedian Nate Bargatze made history Thursday night at ExtraMile Arena in Boise, drawing what arena officials say is the largest comedy crowd ever to gather at the venue, with more than 11,000 people attending his “Big Dumb Eyes World Tour” performance. The massive crowd shattered the arena’s all-time comedy attendance record and upped the show as the highest grossing comedy event in its history.

Arena officials noted in a release that Bargatze’s show broke the record for closest and fastest sellout of a comedy show in VBC history, as well as most gross ticket sales. It was a notable milestone that reinforced the comedian’s increasing influence in large-scale live entertainment. The place was packed from wall to wall with fans, proving how high the demand is for Bargatze’s clean, easy-to-relate-to family humor.

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Bargatze’s Boise milestone is just one of several arena benchmarks he has reached throughout the United States on his tour. In Louisville, he packed to almost 19,000 fans into the KFC Yum! Center, breaking the all-time comedy attendance record for that location. Meanwhile, his gig in Lincoln, Neb. — where he moved more than 13,000 tickets at Pinnacle Bank Arena — also ranked as the arena’s top-grossing comedy show of any kind.

These back-to-back record-setting performances represent a trend of serious sonic power: Bargatze is no longer an A-lister; he’s a kingmaker and workout-room demolition master in the arena-comedy world. Last year alone, he’s been reported to have sold more than 1.2 million tickets and set a new record for tickets sold in over 20 arenas nationwide. His continued ascent in the comedy firmament has put him among the top-earning stand-up comedians working today.

What distinguishes Bargatze is his drolly clean sense of humor and laid-back storytelling approach. His jokes are warm, observational and universally relatable, allowing him to play to massive crowds with a style that makes stand up comedy a large scale live experience. Fans of Harbo are grateful that he’s a comedian who can command an arena without resorting to shock for shock’s sake, and his shows are enjoyed by families, couples young and old and general comedy fans alike.

With one of the most successful comedy specials of late having broken records alongside a co-headlining tour with Chris Rock underway, Bargatze’s success is already well-underway as ExtraMile Arena hosts one of their biggest comedy events ever. His current tour is evidence that he’s changing what stand-up comedy looks like on arena stages across the country.