Bert Kreischer Tour 2026

Inside Bert Kreischer

Bert Kreischer is the Florida-raised, Tampa-bred stand-up who turned a college mythology — a Russian study-abroad trip, an accidental crime-syndicate friendship, and a Rolling Stone profile that christened him 'the top partyer at the Number One Party School in the country' — into one of the longest, most consistent arena-touring comedy careers in North America. Two-plus decades of road work later, he is one of a small group of touring comics who routinely plays the same hockey-and-basketball buildings as headline rock acts, and the only one of them whose signature visual brand is being shirtless on stage every night.

The Machine story — the ten-minute, set-closing, gloriously embellished account of the train heist on the Trans-Siberian Railway — passed a hundred million views on YouTube long before TikTok existed and was eventually adapted into a 2023 Legendary Entertainment feature film with Mark Hamill playing his father. Between the road dates, the half-dozen specials, the Bertcast podcast that he has hosted since 2012, the 2 Bears 1 Cave show with Tom Segura, the Bill Bert Podcast with Bill Burr, and the Something's Burning cooking-and-comedy series, Bert Kreischer occupies more weekly hours in the contemporary comedy audience's listening rotation than almost any other comic working.

This page is the catchmovement hub for Bert Kreischer tour dates, ticket links, and city-by-city venue notes for every market where he runs arena and theater dates — the Tornado Tour-era arena pattern, Toronto Scotiabank-tier stops, Edmonton Rogers Place runs, Los Angeles theater and arena bookings, and the rotating North American and international schedule. The live schedule above pulls real on-sale dates; the blocks below explain what the room actually feels like at a Bert Kreischer show, why the shirt comes off in the first ten minutes, and how the ticketing pattern works on a Tornado-cycle arena leg.

About Bert Kreischer

Albert Charles Kreischer Jr. was born November 3, 1972 in Tampa, Florida, the son of a lawyer father and a real-estate-broker mother, and grew up between the suburbs of Tampa and the Florida west-coast Gulf belt. He attended Florida State University in Tallahassee, where he spent six years as an English major and racked up the underclassman lifestyle that became the subject of the Rolling Stone feature 'Bert Kreischer: The Undergraduate' — the 1997 Oliver Jones magazine profile that named Kreischer the top partyer at FSU, then the country's top-ranked party school, and turned him into a low-grade cult figure on the college circuit before he had ever told a joke on a stage.

The Rolling Stone piece had a second life when it became the basis for the 2002 film National Lampoon's Van Wilder, the Ryan Reynolds vehicle whose central character is widely understood to be inspired by the Kreischer profile. Kreischer himself, by then, had already moved into stand-up — he started open-mic comedy in Tallahassee in his final undergraduate stretch, moved to New York City after FSU, and ground the NYC club circuit through the late 1990s and early 2000s.

The first national break came on television, hosting Hurt Bert on FX in 2005 and Bert the Conqueror on the Travel Channel in 2010, an extreme-physical-stunt format that put him in front of a cable audience before the stand-up career had broken nationally. The first big stand-up special, 'Comfortably Dumb,' aired on Comedy Central in 2009, followed by a string of hour specials over the next decade and a half: 'The Machine' (Showtime, 2016), the special that captured the Russian-train story for a global audience and was the first hour to crack into widespread YouTube circulation; 'Secret Time' (Netflix, 2018), 'Hey Big Boy' (Netflix, 2020), 'Razzle Dazzle' (Netflix, 2023), and 'Lucky' (Netflix, 2025).

The shirtless-on-stage move started early — pulled off the shirt to get a laugh in a club basement, kept doing it because the laugh kept landing — and became, alongside the Machine bit, the defining visual brand of the act. The podcast catalogue scaled in parallel: Bertcast began in 2012 as a long-form interview show, 2 Bears 1 Cave with Tom Segura launched in 2020 and became one of the most-listened-to comedy podcasts in the world, the Bill Bert Podcast with Bill Burr launched on All Things Comedy and runs as a co-hosted weekly companion piece, and Something's Burning is the Travel-Channel-turned-YouTube cooking-with-a-comic format that has run multiple seasons since 2018.

The 2023 Legendary Entertainment film 'The Machine,' directed by Peter Atencio and co-starring Mark Hamill as Bert's father Albert Sr., adapted the train-heist story into a feature-film action-comedy that grossed over $20 million theatrically and pushed the brand from arena-comedy class into mainstream film recognition. The touring brand — Body Shots Tour, Berty Boy Tour, Fully Loaded Comedy Festival, the Tornado Tour — has scaled in step with the podcast and film footprint, and the arena routing is now the default for the bigger headline legs.

Bert Kreischer tour dates

Bert Kreischer tours on a touring pattern that scaled cleanly from clubs to theaters to arenas over more than two decades of road work. The early-career legs ran clubs — the Improv chain, Comedy Works in Denver, Helium, Punch Line, the Comedy Store in LA — at the 300-to-600-seat scale through the 2000s and into the early 2010s.

The 2018 'Body Shots World Tour' and the 2019–2020 'Berty Boy World Tour' moved him into theater rooms at the 1,500-to-3,000-seat scale — Massey Hall in Toronto, the Beacon in New York, the Wiltern in Los Angeles, the Chicago Theatre — and the Fully Loaded Comedy Festival outdoor amphitheater run pushed him into 8,000-to-20,000-cap outdoor sheds across the summer. The Tornado Tour and the headline arena cycles that followed pushed him into NBA-and-NHL-arena rooms — Madison Square Garden, Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Rogers Place in Edmonton, the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, the United Center in Chicago, the O2 Arena in London — with the Tornado-era touring rooms regularly clearing 12,000 to 18,000 paid in the bigger markets.

A typical headline show runs ninety to a hundred-and-five minutes of stand-up, with a single opener and Bert closing the show. The shirt comes off in the opening five-to-ten minutes — almost without fail — and stays off for the rest of the set.

The Machine bit is no longer a fixture of every show (the bit has been told often enough that the audience knows it cold, and Bert has rotated it in and out of the closer slot depending on the year and the leg), but the set-construction logic — long-form personal storytelling, family material, road stories, podcast crossover bits — has been consistent across the recent cycles. Arena dates lean heavier on the canonical, locked closers; theater dates lean heavier on the newer workshop material and the longer storytelling beats.

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.

Bert Kreischer tickets

Tickets for Bert Kreischer tour dates go on sale through Ticketmaster, AXS, and the relevant venue box offices depending on the building. Fan-club presale and email-list early access are the standard primary-market path on the bigger arena legs — fans on the official mailing list and the Bert Kreischer fan-club tier typically receive a presale code one-to-two days ahead of the public on-sale, with a window to clear inventory before general access opens.

Arena pricing on the Tornado-era and subsequent arena cycles typically lands in the $60–$110 band for upper-bowl seats, $110–$220 for lower-bowl ends and the 100-level, and $220–$500 for the floor on the bigger headline dates. Theater dates run a tighter $70–$220 across the room, with hometown Tampa, New York, and Los Angeles shows pricing closer to the top of the band.

Secondary inventory on StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats, and TickPick is consistently active for Bert Kreischer dates — particularly in the first month after on-sale and on hometown stops — though resale premiums tend to run lower than for some of the post-pandemic viral comics because the supply side scales with arena-room inventory. VIP and meet-and-greet packages, when offered on a given leg, clear through the presale window and historically include the photo-package tier (photo with Bert pre-show, premium seat, signed merch, early venue entry).

The fan-club tier (Bert Kreischer's official mailing list and the website at bertbertbert.com) is the most reliable single point of entry for presale access — the codes drop to subscribers a few days ahead of public on-sale on every recent leg.

Bert Kreischer setlist

There is no fixed Bert Kreischer setlist — the show is a long-form storytelling act built around five-to-seven extended bits, with a flexible opening run and a locked closer for each leg. Recurring themes anyone who has followed him from the Comedy Central / Showtime years will recognize: family material (his wife LeeAnn and their two daughters are load-bearing figures in the writing, and the daughters' first-college-tour material has become a defining arc of the recent specials), road stories from twenty-plus years of touring, the friendship with Tom Segura and the broader 2 Bears 1 Cave / Burr / Schulz comedy-podcast ecosystem, drinking-and-blacking-out stories that anchor the brand, and the Russian-train Machine bit that he rotates in and out of the set depending on the year.

The shirtless turn lands in the first ten minutes of almost every show — sometimes earlier — and the visual is part of the act, not an accident. Because the set rotates new material across the leg, no two nights on the same tour are identical, and the bits that land on the next Netflix or YouTube special are workshopped live for months before the taping.

Fan setlist sites and post-show subreddit threads (r/bertkreischer is the most active) are the best place to track which bits are running on the current leg.

Bert Kreischer meet and greet

Bert Kreischer meet-and-greet availability varies by leg and is not a permanent feature of every date on the route. On legs where a VIP package is offered, it is usually sold through Ticketmaster's VIP Nation or the venue's primary partner alongside the general on-sale and clears in the presale window — most often as a photo-package tier (group or one-on-one photo with Bert pre-show, premium seat, signed merch, early venue entry) rather than as a formal handshake-line greet.

There is no industry-standard post-show stage-door meet on the bigger arena legs — the size of the touring rooms makes that model impractical at arena scale, though Bert has historically been one of the more accessible comics on the road on theater-tier dates. The most reliable path for fans hoping for face-time with Bert Kreischer is the VIP package on the on-sale window; secondary listings of VIP tickets are rare because the packages clear fast and rarely re-list.

Fan-club and early-access registration through Bert Kreischer's official website (bertbertbert.com) and email list is the first place legs are announced and the first place VIP allotments open. Confirm specific VIP inclusions on the ticket page before purchase — exact package contents vary by city and venue.

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