From late-night show hosts and stand-up classics to rising social media stars, prepare to laugh with these comedians going on tour in 2024. These comics never fail to get audiences laughing with unique storytelling and hilarious jokes. Read on to explore our picks of the top comedy tours coming to a city near you in 2024.
Nate Bargatze
See this Grammy-nominated Nashville comic live on The Be Funny Tour with Nate Bargatze tickets. Fans can find him on the road now and throughout the spring.
In 2021, Bargatze was called “The Nicest Man in Stand-Up” by The Atlantic. His comedy consists of clean humor and anecdotes about family life and parenting chaos, random comedic encounters and more. Bargatze, inspired by his father who is a magician, started doing stand-up sets while living in Chicago and New York City. In 2013, he joined Jimmy Fallon’s Clean Cut Comedy Tour and won awards at the Boston and New York Comedy Festivals.
Bargatze’s first stand-up album, Yelled at by a Clown, peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Top Ten Comedy Charts in 2014 and the success was followed by another Comedy Central special the following year. By 2022, he created several comedy specials including 2019’s The Tennessee Kid and the 2021 Netflix special, The Greatest Average American, which received the 2022 Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album.
Recently, Bargatze was the host of Saturday Night Live, with a memorable monologue and hilarious segments, making it one of the most popular episodes of the season. Catch this hilarious comic live on his comedy tour with Nate Bargatze tickets.
Matt Rife
Don’t miss seeing this comic live on the ProbleMATTic World Tour with Matt Rife tickets. The tour has more than 100 dates scheduled, with North American shows extending through the end of May 2024. Rife is best known as a regular at The Laugh Factory in Los Angeles, Calif., as well as a recurring cast member on MTV’s Wild ‘N Out.
Rife began doing stand-up when he was only 15, with major comedians like Ricky Gervais and Dave Chapelle influencing his authentic brand of humor. Over the years, Rife has opened for comedians like D.L. Hughley and Tommy Davidson. His style of comedy includes plenty of crowd work and satire while making jokes about pop culture, current events and his popularity with women.
He was a contestant on NBC’s Bring the Funny in 2019 and would soon curate a growing presence on social media with more than 17 million followers on TikTok. Rife has produced and released several comedy specials including Matt Rife: Only Fans (2021) and Walking Red Flag (2023). Get the full stand-up experience from this newer-generation comedian when you buy your Matt Rife tickets today.
Leanne Morgan
See how this saleswoman turned comic brings the house down with Leanne Morgan tickets. Having finished a wildly successful tour in 2022, Morgan embarked on her first arena tour, the Just Getting Started Tour in 2023. Due to popular demand, Morgan is staying on the road and visiting even more cities across the U.S. in 2024.
After having her first child, Morgan became a jewelry saleswoman. While doing door-to-door sales, she would make jokes about motherhood and family life and soon found herself being hired by clients to do comedy gigs.
Morgan eventually launched her stand-up comedy career after she and her family moved to San Antonio, Texas, in 2001. She would perform at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal and started posting YouTube videos, making jokes about life as a housewife and a mom. She has since gained more than three million followers across social media platforms and gained more than 50 million views with her YouTube special, So Yummy.
Morgan’s first Netflix comedy special, Leanne Morgan: I’m Every Woman, debuted in 2023 to the excitement of many of her fans. The special was so popular that it became ranked within the top 10 comedy specials on the streaming platform. Do not miss out on seeing this hilarious and relatable comic live with Leanne Morgan tickets.
Anthony Jeselnik
Catch this stand-up comic from Pittsburgh live on the 2024 Bones and All Tour with Anthony Jeselnik tickets. Jeselnik’s dark comedy style is accompanied by sharp insults and an arrogant persona. He started doing stand-up with Comedy Central, having his first special on Comedy Central Presents debut in 2009. Comedy Central named Jeselnik as one of the breakout comedians of the year alongside others like Nick Kroll and Kumail Nanjiani.
Jeselnik is also known for his writing skills, particularly for the Comedy Central Roasts and later performing during the roast of figures like Donald Trump and Charlie Sheen. In 2013, he hosted his own series, The Jeselnik Offensive, and saw the premiere of his stand-up special, Caligula.
On Netflix, he has several comedy specials including Thoughts and Prayers (2015) and Fire In the Maternity Ward (2019). Jeselnik has also appeared on shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live, Conan and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. He hosts a podcast with Gregg Rosenthal called The Jeselnik & Rosenthal Vanity Project, which features advice for listeners, commentary on weird global news, and hilarious anecdotes about family, friends and life in general. Make sure to get Anthony Jeselnik tickets to join him on his comedy tour.
Brian Regan
Check out this Miami-based stand-up comic with Brian Regan tickets and enjoy his sarcastic wit and self-deprecating humor. Regan has been active in the stand-up world since the 1980s, having made his television debut on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He has since embarked on several nationwide comedy tours and has produced several comedy specials including I Walked on the Moon (2004), Nunchucks and Flamethrowers (2017) and On the Rocks (2021).
Regan has received praise from comics like Chris Rock, Bill Burr, and Jimmy Fallon. He avoids using swear words and telling dirty jokes, becoming a great option for people who prefer “clean” comedy. Brian Regan employs plenty of body language and movement in his stand-up sets, which cover everything from mundane things like whacking away cobwebs to sad yet funny moments from his own life like rejected science fair ideas and optometrist visits.
Along with stand-up, Brian Regan has appeared in comedy series like Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, a web series created by Jerry Seinfeld, and Peter Farrelly’s Loudermilk. Do not miss seeing this funny man live on his comedy tour in 2024 with Brian Regan tickets.
Jo Koy
Make sure to get your Jo Koy tickets to enjoy this comedian live on his world tour. The Jo Koy World Tour kicked off in early November and is scheduled to run through April 2024. Growing up in Las Vegas, Koy was encouraged by his mother to explore comedy acting. He started out telling jokes to family and friends, before moving on to performing at open mic nights at coffee shops and later, small comedy clubs. Koy soon became a regular on Catch A Rising Star at the MGM Grand and was scouted by an LA talent agent, who helped him land his first TV role on BET’s ComcView.
Since then, Koy has made quite the name for himself in the comedy industry, having been a regular guest on Chelsea Lately and appearing on shows like The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, World’s Funniest Fails and Jimmy Kimmell Live! He has done numerous stand-up shows including setting a record with five sold-out comedy shows at the San Diego Civic Theatre. Jo Koy won Stand-Up Comedian Of The Year at the 2018 Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal and in 2019, was No. 1 on the Billboard charts for his comedy album, Live From Seattle.
Koy makes sure to incorporate comedy about diversity and his Asian American culture into his sets, like in one of his newer specials, Comin’ In Hot, which has segments about using accents to determine specific Asian ethnicities and Hawaiians and their love for using vowels. Do not miss seeing this talented comedian live with Jo Koy tickets.
Ronny Chieng
Don’t miss seeing this hilarious Asian comedian live on The Love To Hate It Tour with Ronny Chieng tickets. The comic’s new nationwide tour kicks off in early 2024 and will consist of more than 30 shows running through the summer. Born into a Malaysian-Chinese family, Chieng grew up in Singapore and the United States. After graduating from university in Australia, Chieng took his first big steps into the comedy world, performing at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and winning the Best Newcomer Award.
He participated in more comedy festivals and even performed with Trevor Noah, whom he would work with again in 2015 as a correspondent on The Daily Show. Ronny Chieng has since become a senior correspondent on the show, hosting popular segments like “Everything is Stupid” and “What’s Trending.” Chieng has written and starred in two Netflix specials: Asian Comedian Destroys America! (2019) and Speakeasy (2022).
His standup sets conveyed his quick wit and skills with dark comedy, cracking jokes about the internet making people dumber and Amazon Prime being too smart. In a 2020 interview with Grammy.com, Chieng expressed his desire to create comedy that has a message and focuses on the values of “racial diversity and authenticity” in popular storytelling and comedy.
Along with a thriving comedy career, Ronny Chieng is also an established actor, having roles in movies like Crazy Rich Asians (2018), Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) and the sci-fi thriller, M3GAN (2022). In 2023, Chieng appeared in other projects like Joy Ride and American Born Chinese on Disney+. Make sure to catch this hot comic live on tour with Ronny Chieng tickets.
Wanda Sykes
Get ready to see this household comedy act live during the Please & Thank You Tour with Wanda Sykes tickets. Sykes is an accomplished comedian, writer and actress who is embarking on her first major tour in six years. The Please & Thank You tour kicks off in 2024 at the beginning of March, with shows scheduled through the summer.
Wanda Sykes first gained recognition for her work with the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for her work writing on The Chris Rock Show. In 2004, Entertainment Weekly named her as one of the 25 funniest people in America. Her comedy covers a variety of topics, including American politics and pop culture, sexuality and relationships, and breaking traditions and social conventions.
As an actress, Sykes has appeared in several movies including Monster-in-Law (2005), My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) and Evan Almighty (2007). She has also gained positive praise and honors for her television work, winning a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in A Comedy Series on ABC’s Black-ish as well as a Primetime Emmy nomination for her role on the Amazon series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Recently, Wanda Sykes co-created and appeared in the Netflix sitcom, The Upshaws. Her newer comedy specials Wanda Sykes: Not Normal and Wanda Sykes: I’m an Entertainer, debuted on Netflix in 2019 and 2023 respectively. Catch this classic stand-up entertainer live on her Please & Thank You comedy tour with Wanda Sykes tickets.
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