Nikki Glaser Tour 2026

Inside Nikki Glaser

Nikki Glaser is the St. Louis-bred stand-up comedian whose two-decade road work — open-mics at the Westport Funny Bone in her late teens, college-circuit gigs through Kansas University and the University of Colorado Boulder, Comedy Central Presents, the 2014 MTV roast circuit with Comedy Central's roast of Justin Bieber, the long-running Sirius XM franchise You Up with Nikki Glaser, FBoy Island and FBoy Island Canada hosting, the 2020 Comedy Central special Bangin', the 2024 HBO hour Someday You'll Die, and the viral Tom Brady Roast set on Netflix is a Joke — finally crystallized into the kind of name-brand touring comic whose ticket on-sale moves in minutes rather than weeks.

The Tom Brady Roast in 2024 was the inflection point: a five-minute set on Brady, Robert Kraft, Bill Belichick, Aaron Hernandez, and the broader Patriots ecosystem that the room could not look away from and the internet replayed for six straight months. The Golden Globes hosting slot in January 2025 followed — the first solo female host of the ceremony in its eight-decade history — and the touring math reset accordingly.

This page is the catchmovement hub for Nikki Glaser tour dates, ticket links, and city-by-city venue notes for the markets where she runs theater and arena dates — St. Louis hometown runs at Stifel Theatre and the Fox, the Beacon and Town Hall in New York, the Wiltern and Dolby in Los Angeles, the Chicago Theatre, the Massey Hall and Meridian Hall rooms in Toronto, prestige rooms in Edmonton and Calgary, and London cycles at the Eventim Apollo.

The live schedule above pulls real on-sale dates; the blocks below explain what the room actually feels like under her current touring format — long, fast, sex-and-dating forward, with the dark-comedy and body-image throughlines that anchor Someday You'll Die — and how the ticketing pattern works around the Brady-Roast era surge in demand.

About Nikki Glaser

Nikki Rene Glaser was born June 1, 1984 in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood, Missouri — the youngest of two daughters in a Catholic family that became the source material for a generation of bits on body image, dating, sex education, and the gap between Midwest niceness and the kind of frankness her stand-up has built a career on.

She attended Kirkwood High School and the University of Kansas, transferred to the University of Colorado Boulder, and started open-mics at the St. Louis Funny Bone while still in college.

The first decade on the road ran through the standard comedy-circuit grid — Comedy Central Presents half-hour in 2009, Last Comic Standing semifinalist in 2010, a Comedy Central pilot called You're Whole with Sara Schaefer in 2013, the MTV pilot Nikki and Sara Live, and a steady accumulation of late-night spots on Conan, Letterman, and The Tonight Show. The 2014 Comedy Central roast of Justin Bieber was the first national-tier breakthrough — a set that the network ran in re-rotation for months and that put her on the regular roast circuit alongside Jeff Ross, Anthony Jeselnik, Pete Davidson, and Natasha Leggero.

The Comedy Central daily-talk show Not Safe with Nikki Glaser ran for one season in 2016. The Sirius XM podcast You Up with Nikki Glaser launched on the Comedy Central channel in 2018 and became the daily morning anchor for the dating-and-sex-comedy persona that her stand-up has refined since — three hours of confessional radio that has run for thousands of episodes and is now distributed across the major podcast platforms.

The MTV reality dating show FBoy Island launched on HBO Max in 2021 with Glaser as host; she hosted the Canadian spinoff for the W Network as well. The 2020 Comedy Central special Bangin' was the first hour-long taping that fully landed her stand-up reputation outside the late-night and roast circuit; the May 2024 Netflix special Someday You'll Die — the title pulled from her own ongoing anxiety-and-mortality material — is the special that the touring math finally locked into.

The same Netflix is a Joke festival in May 2024 hosted the Tom Brady Roast at the Kia Forum in Inglewood; Glaser's five-minute set on Brady, the Patriots dynasty, Robert Kraft, and Bill Belichick was the most-quoted set of the night and ran in mainstream news coverage for weeks. In January 2025 she hosted the 82nd Golden Globe Awards solo — the first woman to host the ceremony without a co-host in its history — and the opening monologue ran ten and a half minutes covering everything from The Brutalist to Ozempic to Diddy.

She lives in Los Angeles, dates the writer Chris Convy, and continues to record the Sirius XM podcast five days a week between tour stops.

Nikki Glaser tour dates

Glaser tours on a theater-first pattern with arena dates dropping in on the strongest markets and on co-headline pairings. The current touring format — branded under names like the Good Girl Tour and the Alive and Unwell run, with the schedule routinely rotating between hard-ticket headline dates and festival appearances — runs ninety to one hundred and ten minutes of stand-up plus a fifteen-minute opener.

Theater-tier stops land at the Beacon Theatre in New York, the Wiltern and the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, the Chicago Theatre on State Street, the Stifel Theatre and the Fox Theatre in her hometown St. Louis, the Pantages in Minneapolis, Massey Hall and Meridian Hall in Toronto, the Eventim Apollo in London, and the Sydney Opera House and Melbourne Town Hall on Australia cycles.

Arena-tier dates have started landing at Madison Square Garden, the Kia Forum, Scotiabank Arena, the United Center on co-headline nights, and the O2 Arena in London. The set is sex-and-dating forward in the You Up with Nikki Glaser tradition but the back half of every show pulls from the Someday You'll Die anxiety-and-mortality material — the bits on her own panic attacks, on eating-disorder recovery, on the relationship with her father and the death-anxiety that became the special's title.

Openers rotate across the route — frequent road partners include Andrew Collin, Sam Morril, Mark Normand, Sara Schaefer, and rotating Cellar and Stand Up NY orbit comics. 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.

Nikki Glaser tickets

Tickets for Nikki Glaser tour dates go on sale through Ticketmaster, AXS, See Tickets, Live Nation, and the relevant venue box offices depending on the building. The Brady Roast and Golden Globes inflection point reset the touring math — theater dates that used to open with a single on-sale now routinely add second and third nights within hours, and the pricing band has moved upward across the route.

Theater orchestra seats on the headline rooms typically land in the $85–$220 band, with mezzanine opening around $55–$95 and front-row premium seats running $250–$450 on the prestige stops. Arena lower-bowl seats on the bigger venues land in the $120–$300 band, with the upper bowl opening around $50–$90.

Fan-club and email-list presales open one to two days before the public on-sale; venue presales (American Express, Citi, the venue's own membership tier) run alongside, and the public on-sale window closes faster than the average comedy date because of the post-Brady-Roast surge. Secondary inventory on StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats, and TickPick is heaviest in the first week after on-sale and tends to hold price closer to face than the average comedy ticket because of the limited supply of nights per market.

Glaser's shows do not use Yondr phone-lockup pouches by default — phones are allowed in the room, though the standard ask is that fans not record full bits. International dates (London at the Eventim Apollo and the O2, Sydney at the Opera House, Melbourne at the Town Hall) price in local currency and trend slightly higher than the US equivalents once converted.

VIP, meet-and-greet, and photo-op packages are available on most tour stops through Glaser's official touring partners.

Nikki Glaser setlist

There is no fixed Nikki Glaser setlist in the song-by-song sense — a stand-up 'setlist' is a sequence of bits and long-form storytelling that rotates show to show and tour to tour. A typical Glaser show is built around six to eight anchor bits from the current cycle, interleaved with crowd-work, recurring callbacks to You Up with Nikki Glaser listener-confession threads, and new material the night demands.

Recurring themes anyone tracking the Someday You'll Die special and the Bangin' hour will recognize: dating in your forties, the gap between sex-positive talk-show persona and her actual sex life, her ongoing relationship with her parents in Kirkwood, panic attacks and death anxiety (the Someday You'll Die throughline), eating-disorder recovery and body-image talk, the Tom Brady Roast aftermath, the Golden Globes hosting experience, and the running observational thread on Midwestern Catholic upbringing versus Los Angeles writer-room life. The format is structurally faster than the average stand-up hour — closer to two-hundred-and-twenty words a minute than the comedy-circuit average — with shorter bits stacked into longer arcs and a closer-bit that usually pulls from the mortality material rather than the dating material.

No two nights inside the same tour are identical; the bits that land on the next special are workshopped live for months before the taping date is set. Post-show fan threads and setlist sites track the running order on a night-to-night basis.

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