Jo Koy Tour 2027

Inside Jo Koy

Jo Koy — born Joseph Glenn Herbert in Tacoma, Washington — is one of the very small handful of stand-up comedians touring at full NBA-arena scale, and the most prominent Filipino-American headliner in the history of the form. The act is built on a tight family-coded foundation: his Filipino mother (the most-quoted character in his entire catalogue), his son Joseph, the immigrant household he grew up in, and the cultural-translation jokes that have made him a touchstone for first-generation Asian-American audiences from Manila to Toronto to Honolulu.

He came up the long way — Carolines on Broadway, the Comedy Store on Sunset, late-night sets on Chelsea Lately, four Netflix specials starting with Live from Seattle and culminating in Jo Koy: Live from the Las Vegas Strip — and then crossed over into the mainstream consciousness as host of the 2024 Golden Globes and as the writer, producer, and star of the Easter Sunday feature film. He built an extended Las Vegas residency at the Mirage that was, for a stretch, the longest-running comedy residency on the Strip by a single headliner.

This page is the catchmovement hub for Jo Koy tour dates, ticket links, and city-by-city venue notes for every market where he runs a major arena, theater, or residency-style stand. Whether you are tracking a Toronto stop at Scotiabank Arena, a Honolulu run at the Blaisdell, a hometown Seattle taping, or a Manila date at the Mall of Asia Arena, the live schedule above pulls real on-sale dates straight from the ticketing feed, and the city blocks below explain what the room actually feels like.

About Jo Koy

Joseph Glenn Herbert was born June 2, 1971 in Tacoma, Washington, the son of a Filipino mother who emigrated from the Philippines and an American father who served in the Air Force. The family moved around military postings before settling in Spokane, Washington and then Las Vegas, Nevada, where Jo Koy attended high school and started running open-mic nights as a teenager.

The stage name 'Jo Koy' came directly from his aunt, who used it as a household nickname; he kept it because it landed cleaner than the long Filipino-American mouthful of his given name. The early club years ran through the Las Vegas Strip lounges and the Los Angeles circuit — Carolines on Broadway in New York and the Comedy Store on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood gave him the late-1990s and early-2000s grind that built the act.

A regular slot on Chelsea Handler's Chelsea Lately panel through the late 2000s and early 2010s put him in front of a mainstream cable audience for the first time, and the Netflix era then compounded the audience: Jo Koy: Live from Seattle taped at the Moore Theatre in 2017, Jo Koy: Comin' In Hot taped in Honolulu in 2019, Jo Koy: In His Elements taped in Manila in 2020 alongside a slate of Filipino performers, and Jo Koy: Live from the Las Vegas Strip taped at the Mirage in 2024 to mark his Vegas residency. The Mirage residency itself, anchored at the casino's Aces of Comedy room, ran in extended weekend stands and became, for a stretch, the most consistent Strip comedy booking by a Filipino-American headliner.

In 2022 he wrote, produced, and starred in Easter Sunday, the Universal feature film built around a Filipino-American family gathering — the first major studio comedy to put a Filipino-American family at the center of the story. In January 2024 he hosted the Golden Globe Awards, only the second stand-up to host the ceremony in that era.

The arena tour has scaled in lockstep: the Funny Is Funny World Tour and prior cycles routinely sell out 12,000-to-18,000-seat rooms across the United States, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, and the United Kingdom, and the Filipino-American diaspora turns out in a density that few other touring acts can match.

Jo Koy tour dates

Jo Koy tours on a hybrid arena-and-theater pattern, with the headline dates landing at NBA-grade rooms — Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, MGM Grand Garden Arena and T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip, Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, Madison Square Garden in New York, Honda Center in Anaheim, Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle — and the secondary-market dates dropping into 2,500-to-5,000-seat performing-arts theaters. A full Jo Koy headline show usually runs eighty to one hundred minutes with no intermission, preceded by a short fifteen-to-twenty-minute opener (often Andrew Lopez, Joey Guila, Eugene Cordero, or a rotating guest comic from his Comedy Store circle).

The production is clean and uncluttered: a single mic stand, a stool, a water bottle, two side screens that mirror the stage to the upper bowl, and a lighting cue that pulls in when he sits down for the mom-and-son storytelling beats. Tour brandings shift by cycle — Lights Out, Jo Koy World Tour, Funny Is Funny, the Vegas residency stands — but the structure stays consistent: a refreshed hour or so of new material every cycle, anchor bits that long-time fans expect, and crowd work that keeps every show distinct.

The Filipino-American audience density runs higher than any other Asian-American touring act in the form; in Toronto, Honolulu, Manila, Sydney, and the West Coast US dates, more than half of the room is Filipino-American or Filipino-Canadian. The live schedule above pulls directly from the on-sale feed, so once a tour leg is announced the city, venue, date, and ticketing link appear here automatically — no calendar-year guessing required.

Jo Koy tickets

Tickets for Jo Koy tour dates go on sale through Ticketmaster, AXS, and Live Nation depending on the venue, with a Live Nation or Citi cardholder presale typically running roughly a week before the public on-sale on most North American legs. Arena pricing usually lands in the $55–$95 range for upper-bowl seats, $95–$220 for lower-bowl ends and the 100-level, and $220–$550 for the floor — closer pricing on Vegas residency-style dates and on hometown Los Angeles and Seattle nights, and slightly lower on secondary-market theater dates.

Theater dates themselves run a tighter band, usually $65–$200 across the room. VIP packages, when offered, bundle a meet-and-greet photo, a signed tour print or merch item, and an early-entry window; those clear fast on the presale and rarely show up on the secondary market.

Most venues do not enforce a strict age minimum, but expect a ticket to be required for anyone over age 2 or 3 — venue-dependent. Secondary inventory on StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats, and TickPick is deepest in the week before the show; lower-bowl seats often drop 20–35 percent inside the final 72 hours on non-hometown dates, while Filipino-diaspora-heavy markets — Honolulu, Toronto, Manila, San Francisco, and the LA-area dates — hold their price closer to face right up to first curtain, especially for any night within walking distance of the venue's transit hub.

Jo Koy Las Vegas residency

Jo Koy's Las Vegas residency is the most-established Filipino-American comedy stand on the Strip. The original residency was anchored at the Mirage's Aces of Comedy room — a roughly 1,250-seat theater that hosted Jo Koy's extended weekend runs for several years and was the room where he taped Jo Koy: Live from the Las Vegas Strip for Netflix in 2024.

The Mirage itself is in the middle of a multi-year property transition as Hard Rock International redevelops the site into the Hard Rock Las Vegas resort, so the specific in-Mirage room is in flux during the transition window; Jo Koy's Strip presence is expected to continue across that transition through other Live Nation–operated rooms on the Strip, including the larger arena bookings at MGM Grand Garden Arena, T-Mobile Arena, and the Dolby Live theater at Park MGM. Residency-style weekends typically run Thursday-through-Saturday or Friday-through-Sunday three-night stands, with showtimes at 8 or 9 p.m., a tighter ninety-minute set, and no opener on some of the residency nights.

Pricing for residency theater seats runs $80–$300 across the room; the Strip arena bookings run higher in line with the standard touring arena tier. Always check the live schedule above on this page for the current Vegas venue — the on-sale feed reflects the up-to-date room and showtime, not the pre-transition Mirage booking.

Jo Koy setlist

A Jo Koy setlist isn't a song list — it's a rotating set of bits and storylines that he rebuilds tour over tour. The recurring themes are anchored by his Filipino mother (the single most-cited character in his entire catalogue, with the 'tabo' bathroom-bucket bit, the Costco bulk-shopping run, the speakerphone arguments, and the food-from-the-Philippines-in-a-balikbayan-box arc), his son Joseph (the parenting bits, the teenage-years material, the texting-and-Snapchat run), his Filipino aunts and cousins, his upbringing between Tacoma, Spokane, and Las Vegas, and the cultural-translation jokes about being half Filipino and half white in an American childhood.

Each leg of the tour swaps out roughly a third of the material, with new bits debuted in the theater rooms and graduated to the arena rooms once they land. The Vegas residency nights frequently include longer crowd-work runs than the arena dates.

No two shows are ever identical even inside the same city on consecutive weekends — fan-curated setlist sites and YouTube clips from the most recent week of shows are the best place to track what's currently in rotation on the current leg.

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