Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again Watts Reggie

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. Anyone who's seen his multifaceted, entirely improvised comedy and music shows knows that. But you knew that.

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. 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. And it helped