Theo Von Tour 2026

Inside Theo Von

Theo Von is the Louisiana-born stand-up and podcaster who turned a slow-burn club career and an unmistakable Covington drawl into one of the most distinctive arena-comedy acts on the touring circuit. Born Theodor Capitani von Kurnatowski III in 1980 and raised in the small-town pine country north of Lake Pontchartrain, he came up through the early-2000s reality-television pipeline — Road Rules, The Real World: New Orleans, the Inferno crossover seasons — before pivoting back to stand-up and grinding the club road for the better part of a decade with no streaming special, no late-night anchor, and no podcast megaphone to lean on.

The breakout was not a Netflix taping or a viral talk-show set; it was a podcast feed. This Past Weekend with Theo Von — launched in 2016, recorded out of a series of progressively bigger Nashville studios, and built episode by episode on long-form interviews and Theo's unhurried Southern monologue style — climbed into the top tier of the global comedy-podcast chart alongside Joe Rogan and Andrew Schulz's Flagrant, and the touring business followed it directly.

By the back half of the 2010s Theo was booking theaters; by the early 2020s he was filling arenas; by his Return of the Rat era he was doing it in markets that had never seen a Louisiana mullet comic sell out a hockey building. This page is the catchmovement hub for Theo Von tour dates, ticket links, and city-by-city venue notes — Nashville home stands, New Orleans hometown nights, Toronto Canadian crossings, London UK arenas, and the rotating live This Past Weekend tapings that fold into select tour stops.

The live schedule above pulls real on-sale dates; the blocks below explain what the room actually feels like and how the ticketing pattern works.

About Theo Von

Theo Von was born Theodor Capitani von Kurnatowski III on March 19, 1980 in Covington, Louisiana — a small parish town on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain about an hour outside New Orleans — and was raised across the rural South in a family with a complicated multi-generational story that he has spent his entire stand-up career mining. His father was significantly older and died when Theo was a teenager; his mother raised four children in modest circumstances; the specifics of growing up white-trash-adjacent in southern Louisiana, with its mix of French Catholic, Cajun, country, and Gulf Coast culture, sit underneath almost every bit in the act.

He entered public life through reality television: Road Rules: Maximum Velocity Tour in 2000, The Real World/Road Rules Inferno seasons that followed, and a recurring role on the franchise's spin-off competition shows through the mid-2000s. Stand-up was the slow burn underneath the TV credits — open mics in Los Angeles, the New Orleans and Atlanta club circuits, late-night Sirius XM appearances, and a long stretch of headlining smaller theaters in the South before any of the larger national outlets caught on.

The podcast world is what changed the math. He hosted Allegedly with Matthew Cole Weiss for a multi-year run that put him in the long-form conversational format he would later perfect, then in 2016 launched This Past Weekend — initially a solo monologue feed, eventually an interview show with a rotating guest list that has spanned comedians, athletes, country musicians, scientists, politicians, recovery activists, and the broader cultural-curiosity world.

The podcast moved his audience from comedy-club regulars to a global Spotify and Apple top-ten audience and turned the touring business into an arena play almost overnight. His two Netflix specials — No Offense in 2016 and Regular People in 2021 — bracket that transition: the first taped during the club-circuit chapter, the second after the podcast audience had already arrived.

He moved his base from Los Angeles to Nashville mid-pandemic, joining the broader migration of comedians and podcasters into the Tennessee scene, and his August 2024 long-form interview with Donald Trump on This Past Weekend drew significant cross-platform attention as one of the highest-profile podcast appearances of that election cycle, viewed tens of millions of times across YouTube, Spotify, and short-form clips. The on-stage voice is unmistakable: a slow, drawled, vividly specific Louisiana storytelling cadence built on hyper-local cultural references, an extraordinarily generative crowd-work instinct, and an act that draws as much from the recovery-community honesty of his offstage life as it does from the rural-South childhood that anchors the material.

Theo Von tour dates

Theo tours on the arena-and-theater pattern that became the default for podcast-era stand-up — theaters in the 2,500-to-5,000-seat band on the smaller legs, full hockey-and-basketball arenas on the bigger ones. Recent tour brands (the Return of the Rat tour and the legs that followed) have routed through Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Madison Square Garden in New York, the United Center in Chicago, Toyota Center in Houston, the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, and the O2 Arena in London, alongside theater-format stops at the Beacon Theatre, the Wiltern, the Saenger in New Orleans, the Ryman in Nashville, and Massey Hall in Toronto.

A typical headline show runs eighty to one hundred minutes of stand-up — longer than the seventy-five-minute touring standard, because Theo leans heavily on extended crowd-work segments and the unhurried Southern-storytelling pacing that defines the act. Most dates on the route enforce a strict no-phones policy with Yondr or comparable lock-pouch systems at the door; the reason is the same as every other arena-tier comic on the touring circuit — he workshops new material every night and the lockup is what keeps that material off short-form social media before it lands on the next special.

Openers rotate by leg and pull from his Nashville and broader podcast-orbit circle, with a typical fifteen-to-twenty-minute warm-up before Theo takes the stage. A meaningful share of the route also includes live This Past Weekend tapings — full podcast episodes shot in front of the same paying audience, usually as a premium ticket add-on or as a separate after-show sit-in.

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.

Theo Von tickets

Tickets for Theo Von tour dates go on sale through Ticketmaster, AXS, See Tickets, and the relevant venue box offices depending on the building. This Past Weekend subscribers and his fan-club email list get the first window on most legs — a one-to-two-day fan presale running before the public on-sale, with a unique presale code dropped through the podcast feed and the email list the morning the window opens.

Arena pricing typically lands in the $55–$120 band for upper-bowl seats, $120–$240 for lower-bowl ends and the 100-level, and $250–$550 for floor and front-of-bowl on the bigger Return of the Rat–era dates. Theater dates run a tighter $65–$220 across the room, with the Ryman, the Saenger in New Orleans, and the Beacon Theatre hometown-style stops pricing closer to the top of the band.

International dates — the O2 in London, the Hammersmith Apollo, and the larger European theater rooms — price in local currency and trend slightly higher than the US equivalents once converted. Secondary inventory on StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats, and TickPick is heaviest in the first week after on-sale; Nashville and New Orleans hometown dates hold price closest to face.

VIP packages, when offered, sometimes bundle a sit-in spot at a live This Past Weekend taping and rarely re-list on the secondary market.

Theo Von setlist

There is no fixed Theo Von setlist in the rock-tour sense — a stand-up set is built around recurring bits and themes that rotate across a tour cycle. A typical night blends four or five canonical pieces from the current tour brand — Louisiana family stories, growing-up-broke material, the recovery-and-sobriety thread that runs through his honest-confessional moments, observations about Nashville and the South, and the meta material about podcasting and modern fame — interleaved with long crowd-work runs where Theo essentially conducts an unstructured interview with the front rows.

Because he locks phones at the door and develops new material across the run, no two shows inside the same tour are identical, and bits often debut in club drop-ins around Nashville before graduating to theater stops and finally landing on the arena floor. Fan-curated setlist sites and post-show subreddit threads are the best place to track which Louisiana stories and crowd-work bits are running on the current leg.

This Past Weekend with Theo Von

This Past Weekend is the second engine of the touring business and the format that lifted Theo from theater headliner to arena comic. Launched in 2016, recorded out of progressively bigger Nashville studios, the show drops weekly on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts and sits consistently in the global top ten on the comedy-podcast charts.

The format is conversational and unhurried — long-form interviews with comedians, musicians, athletes, scientists, politicians, recovery-community voices, and a wide-open cultural-curiosity guest list — interleaved with monologue-style solo episodes where Theo unspools personal stories at the same pace as a stand-up bit. The August 2024 sit-down with Donald Trump drew tens of millions of cross-platform views and put the feed in front of an audience well outside the regular comedy-podcast world.

Alongside the studio cut, Theo periodically runs live This Past Weekend tapings on tour — full episodes shot in front of a paying audience as part of the tour route, sometimes as a premium-tier ticket add-on with a sit-in seat behind the panel, sometimes as a separate after-show event. Tickets for live tapings list separately from the stand-up dates and tend to clear fastest of any on-sale tied to the Theo Von universe.

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