Simon Leblanc Tour 2026

Inside Simon Leblanc

Simon Leblanc is one of Quebec's most consistent and beloved stand-up comedians — a Bromont-raised observational comic who trained at the École nationale de l'humour and built a two-decade career touring francophone theatres across the province and into Acadian New Brunswick. His solo shows, presented over multi-year runs at venues like Théâtre St-Denis in Montreal, Salle Albert-Rousseau in Quebec City and the regional network of provincial theatres, draw an audience that returns show after show because his comedy is built on small, recognisable life moments rather than headlines or shock material.

This catchmovement page is the hub for Simon Leblanc tour dates, ticket links, and city-by-city venue notes for every Quebec, New Brunswick and Ontario stop where he runs a date — and a small Toronto block for anglophone audiences curious about Quebec's stand-up scene. The live schedule above is pulled directly from the on-sale feed, so once the diffuseur announces a city the venue, date and ticket link appear here automatically.

The content blocks below cover how his tours are structured, what a Simon Leblanc show actually feels like in the room, the ticketing landscape on the francophone circuit, and the most common questions first-time audience members ask before showing up.

About Simon Leblanc

Simon Leblanc was born March 27, 1979 in Bromont, in Quebec's Estrie region, and graduated from the École nationale de l'humour in 2003 — the same Montreal institution that produced most of the province's working stand-ups. He spent his early career rotating through opening slots and the open-mic circuit in Montreal, Quebec City and Sherbrooke before the ComédiHa!

festival in Quebec City and Juste pour rire in Montreal began featuring him in their televised galas in the late 2000s, which moved him from a regional opener into a recognised headlining name on the francophone circuit. His solo shows — multi-year tours that play the full Quebec theatre network — built him into one of the steadiest sellers in francophone stand-up, the kind of headliner who can run a complete series of dates at Théâtre St-Denis in Montreal and Salle Albert-Rousseau in Quebec City and then tour the regional rooms (Trois-Rivières, Sherbrooke, Saguenay, Rimouski, the North Shore, the Gaspésie loop, the Acadian routes through New Brunswick) for the better part of a year.

The act is grounded in observational humour: family life, couples, kids, neighbourhood characters, growing up in a small Estrie town, and the small recognisable absurdities of Quebec daily life — material that is almost entirely clean, never political in a partisan sense, and built to play across generations from twenty-somethings to retirees in organised group outings. Television credits include hosting and gala appearances at Juste pour rire and ComédiHa!, regular spots on Quebec network comedy specials, and a steady presence on the talk-show circuit between tour cycles.

The stage style is unaffected, conversational, and structurally tight — long-form storytelling with callbacks and a payoff arc rather than rapid-fire one-liners, delivered without elaborate staging, video or props so the focus stays entirely on the writing and the performance.

Simon Leblanc tour dates

Simon Leblanc tours on the standard Quebec stand-up model: one solo show carried across multiple seasons, presented in roughly one hundred theatres across Quebec, francophone Ontario and Acadian New Brunswick. Each show runs about 90 to 100 minutes, sometimes with a short opener from an emerging comedian, and the venue list is the recognised provincial theatre network — Théâtre St-Denis and Théâtre Maisonneuve in Montreal, Salle Albert-Rousseau in Quebec City, Salle Pauline-Julien on Montreal's West Island, Salle Anaïs-Allard-Rousseau in Trois-Rivières, the Centre culturel of the Université de Sherbrooke, the Salle Odyssée in Gatineau, and the regional rooms in Drummondville, Saguenay, Rimouski, Rouyn-Noranda, Sept-Îles, Edmundston and Moncton.

A full tour cycle typically spans two performance seasons (fall through spring, with a summer pause and a fall reprise), and Montreal, Quebec City and Sherbrooke Saturday-night dates routinely sell out and add supplementary performances within the first weeks of on-sale. The stage format is deliberately minimal — one comedian, one microphone, a neutral backdrop and sober lighting — which lets the same show work in a 2,000-seat Montreal theatre and a 400-seat regional hall in Gaspésie without modification.

The schedule above pulls directly from the diffuseur ticketing feed, refreshing automatically as new cities are announced.

Simon Leblanc tickets

Tickets for Simon Leblanc shows are sold through the official ticketing systems of each venue: Place des Arts and Théâtre St-Denis for Montreal, the Grand Théâtre de Québec ticketing system and Salle Albert-Rousseau box office for Quebec City, and admission.com or lepointdevente.com for the regional theatres across the province. Pricing typically lands between CAD $45 and $65 for standard seating, with a premium on the first rows of the large Montreal and Quebec City rooms.

Fan-club and venue-subscriber presales open about a week before the public on-sale — signing up for the venue's newsletter is the easiest way to access them, especially for weekend dates that move quickly once they go on sale. Weekend dates in Montreal, Quebec City, Sherbrooke and Trois-Rivières frequently add supplementary performances when the first date sells out, usually announced within the following weeks.

For resale, note that in Quebec, reselling above face value without producer authorisation is regulated by the provincial Consumer Protection Act — use the venue's official resale platform when possible, and avoid unauthorised third-party resellers. The schedule above always links to the official primary box office for each date.

Simon Leblanc show structure

A Simon Leblanc show is not a song setlist — comedy 'setlist' here means the sequence of bits and storylines that make up the show. Recurring themes across his solo shows include couple life, kids and parenting, family dinners, growing up in Bromont in the 1980s and 1990s, the small recognisable habits of everyday Quebec life, and weekend cottage and grocery-store scenes.

The structural arc is typical of Quebec stand-up: an opener that sets tone, five-to-ten-minute blocks by theme, transitions that plant callbacks the audience does not see coming, and a closer that lands on a more emotional, human note. Material evolves season to season as he adds, drops and reworks bits over the run of a tour, often testing new pieces in regional rooms before they migrate to the larger Montreal and Quebec City dates.

No two performances are identical — crowd-work interludes, city-specific references and last-minute swaps mean each night carries its own variation.

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