Ali Wong Tour 2026

Inside Ali Wong

Ali Wong is the stand-up comedian who reset the template for what a Netflix special could be and the actress who turned a year of Beef into the rare comedy-to-prestige-drama jump that the industry actually rewarded. By the time Baby Cobra dropped on Netflix in May 2016 — filmed seven-and-a-half-months pregnant at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle and shot for what was, by Netflix-original standards then, a relatively modest production budget — she had already changed the assumption that a pregnant comedian in a tight dress could not anchor a flagship comedy hour. Hard Knock Wife followed in 2018, filmed seven months pregnant with her second daughter, doubling down on the bit that the first special had built. Don Wong in 2022 ran the divorce-era reset directly into the act — frank sexual material, the open marriage years, the touring-comedian-as-mother math — and Single Lady in 2024 finished what Don Wong started, with a freshly divorced 41-year-old in a cocktail dress at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles working through the dating-app years and the practical mathematics of being the breadwinner in a Hollywood marriage that had ended. Beef on Netflix in early 2023 delivered the prestige-drama lap: Best Limited Series at the Emmys, Best Actress for Wong, eight wins across the awards run, and a Lee Sung Jin-created road-rage spiral opposite Steven Yeun that became one of the most decorated streaming launches of the year. This page is the catchmovement hub for Ali Wong tour dates, ticket links, and city-by-city venue notes for the markets where she runs theater-format and arena-tier headline dates — Los Angeles hometown nights at the Wilshire Ebell and the Greek, New York runs at the Beacon and Radio City, Toronto stops at Massey Hall and the Meridian, the Bay Area network of Berkeley Greek and Davies Symphony Hall, plus the Australian, UK, and Asia-Pacific legs that have anchored every cycle since Baby Cobra. The live schedule above pulls real on-sale dates; the blocks below explain what the room actually feels like, how the ticketing pattern works, and what divides the cocktail-dress front-row from the upper bowl on a Wong night.

About Ali Wong

Alexandra Dawn Wong was born April 19, 1982 in San Francisco, the youngest of four siblings, raised in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of the city by her American-born Chinese father — an anesthesiologist who emigrated from Hokkien-speaking parents in the Philippines — and her Vietnamese-American mother, who emigrated from Huế in the wave following the fall of Saigon. The cultural specifics matter to the act: the bilingual Vietnamese-and-English household, the San Francisco Chinatown grandmother, the boarding-school years at the all-girls San Francisco University High School, the Asian-American academic-achievement framing that runs through every special, and the eventual UCLA undergraduate degree in Asian American Studies are not flourishes — they are the literal source code of the on-stage persona. She graduated from UCLA in 2005, moved to New York to chase open-mics at the Comic Strip Live and the Comedy Cellar's Olive Tree Café, and worked the East Coast club circuit through her mid-twenties, performing nine sets a night across multiple Manhattan rooms during the grind years. She moved back to Los Angeles in the late 2000s and broke through writing for Are You There, Chelsea? on NBC in 2011 and then American Housewife and Black Box across the early 2010s. Fresh Off the Boat — the ABC sitcom about a Taiwanese-American family in Orlando — hired her into the writers' room from 2014 to 2015, the credit that anchored the comedy-television resume before the stand-up specials became the center of gravity. Baby Cobra on Netflix in May 2016 was the inflection point: filmed at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle, seven-and-a-half months pregnant with her first daughter Mari, the special's framing of pregnancy, ambition, marriage, and the practical math of being a working mother became a defining text of the streaming-era stand-up boom. Hard Knock Wife followed in May 2018, filmed at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival's Centennial Concert Hall, seven months pregnant with her second daughter Nikki. The marriage to Justin Hakuta — the Harvard Business School graduate son of inventor and television personality Ken Hakuta — anchored both specials and the running 'married up' joke about a husband with a Harvard MBA and a Filipino-Japanese background; the couple separated in April 2022 and finalized their divorce in early 2023. Don Wong on Netflix in February 2022 — filmed at New York's Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall — ran the post-separation reset directly into the act, with frank sexual material, the open-marriage years, and the touring-comedian-as-single-mother arithmetic. Beef on Netflix in April 2023 — the Lee Sung Jin-created limited series opposite Steven Yeun — delivered the prestige drama turn: Best Limited Series at the Emmys, Best Actress for Wong, Golden Globe wins, SAG wins, eight Primetime Emmys across the run. Single Lady on Netflix in 2024 — filmed at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles in a fitted black cocktail dress, freshly divorced, working the dating-app years — closed the Don Wong arc and reset the persona for the post-marriage tour cycle. Film and animated voice credits stack around the stand-up: Always Be My Maybe with Randall Park on Netflix in 2019, Tuca & Bertie opposite Tiffany Haddish on Adult Swim, Big Mouth as Ali, Birds of Prey, Inside Out 2 as Joy's emotion, Paper Girls, and the live-action American Born Chinese on Disney+ as the Guanyin. The relationship with Bill Hader, the SNL alum and Barry creator, became public in late 2022 and has been steady through every special and tour cycle since.

Ali Wong tour dates

Ali Wong tours on a prestige-theater-as-floor pattern that has held since Baby Cobra, with selective arena-tier stops in hometown markets and demand-spike dates that the theater route cannot absorb. Theater-format dates land at the Beacon Theatre on the Upper West Side, Radio City Music Hall and the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York, the Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley and Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and the Hollywood Bowl and the Greek Theatre on the Los Angeles route, Massey Hall and Meridian Hall in Toronto, the Chicago Theatre and the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, the Fox Theatre on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, the Sydney Opera House and Hamer Hall in Melbourne on the Australian leg, the Eventim Apollo and the Royal Festival Hall in London. Arena-tier bookings on selected demand-spike legs have landed at the Hollywood Bowl on the outdoor cycle, Radio City Music Hall on residency-format runs, and the Madison Square Garden Theater on the bigger dates. A typical headline show runs ninety to a hundred minutes of stand-up — often without a traditional opener — and the visual signature is the fitted form-hugging dress (red on Baby Cobra, black on Hard Knock Wife, the Don Wong red, the Single Lady black at the Wilshire Ebell) that has become a deliberate uniform across the catalog. Material rotates aggressively across the cycle; Wong workshops new bits at almost every date through the Comedy Store and Largo and the Brea Improv before the special tapes, and the lockdown on filming inside the venue means clips do not leak before the next Netflix drop. Phones are not formally pouched at most theater stops in the Yondr style of the Chappelle route, but no-recording policy is enforced strictly through staff sweeps during the show, and arena dates flagged for taping the next special run a full Yondr lockup on the door. The live schedule above pulls directly from the on-sale feed, so once a leg is announced the city, venue, date, and ticketing link appear here automatically.

Ali Wong tickets

Tickets for Ali Wong tour dates go on sale through Ticketmaster, AXS, and the relevant venue box offices depending on the building, with the Australian leg adding Ticketek and Ticketmaster Australia and the UK route adding See Tickets, AXS UK, and the Royal Albert Hall direct box office on the prestige-theater nights. Theater pricing typically lands in the $90–$160 band for upper-balcony seats and the back of the orchestra, $160–$320 for the front orchestra and the mezzanine, and $320–$700 for the front three to five rows on the bigger demand-spike dates. Radio City Music Hall, the Hollywood Bowl box seats, the Beacon Theatre orchestra, Massey Hall main floor centre, and the London prestige theater stalls price closest to the top of the band on the rare-supply nights. Australian theater pricing in AUD typically runs A$120–$320 across the room. Email-list and fan-presale codes drop one to two days before the public on-sale on most dates, with the venue's own membership tier (the Wilshire Ebell members list, the Royal Albert Hall friends, the Beacon Theatre patron program) running alongside. Secondary inventory on StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats, and TickPick is heaviest in the first week after on-sale and holds price moderately on hometown LA and New York dates; Sydney Opera House and the Toronto runs hold price tighter on Friday and Saturday nights given the limited supply of dates relative to demand. VIP and meet-and-greet packages are not a standard part of the Wong touring model — the show itself is the package, with occasional venue-side pre-show lounge upgrades on Hollywood Bowl and Radio City nights, but no formal face-to-face tier.

Ali Wong setlist

There is no fixed Ali Wong setlist in the song-by-song sense — a stand-up 'setlist' is a sequence of bits and long-form storytelling arcs that rotates show to show and tour to tour. A typical show is built around six to eight long-form story bits anchored to the current special cycle, with shorter connective material between the anchors and occasional crowd-work asides on the front row that the room she is in that night invites. Recurring themes anyone tracking the four Netflix specials will recognize: the Asian-American household and the Vietnamese-and-Chinese cultural specifics, the boarding-school and UCLA years, the open-marriage and divorce arithmetic of the Don Wong era, the dating-app and breadwinner years of Single Lady, the post-divorce mother-of-two practical math, the Bill Hader relationship in flickers rather than full bits, the running 'I am rich now' joke about residual income and the streaming-era windfall, and the still-anchored running material about being a working mother on the road. The 90-minute floor of the show usually closes on a long-form story rather than a hard punch line — a structural signature that goes back to Baby Cobra's pregnancy bit and Hard Knock Wife's postpartum-body closer. Because Wong workshops new material aggressively across the run, no two nights inside the same tour are identical, and the bits that land on the next special are road-tested for months before the taping date is set. Post-show fan threads on Reddit and the setlist-tracking corners of Twitter track the running order on a night-to-night basis.

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