Shane Gillis Live tour dates, how to get tickets

by Junna Base November 12, 2024

“Saturday Night Live” who? Shane Gillis will be on his latest stand-up tour live from a city near you.

The comedian, who was famously fired from “SNL” in 2019 over resurfaced offensive podcast comments, announced his “biggest tour yet” on Tuesday, which will take him to 27 cities around the world.

The tour begins Jan. 10 with a stop in San Antonio, Texas, before Gillis travels to Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Seattle and more. The last scheduled date is the end of June in San Jose, California.

The announcement came after Gillis returned in February as host of “Saturday Night Live,” the same show that fired him five years earlier. The comedian’s hiring sparked controversy after podcast comments resurfaced in which he used an anti-Asian slur.

Since then, Gillis has continued to stir controversy with some of his comedies that critics have found offensive, including his “SNL” monologue in which he joked about having family members with Down syndrome, saying, ” You remember when you were a little boy and you loved your son.” Mom? Do you remember when you were gay?

At the time, Vox’s Aja Romano said that Gillis had continued to make “racist, anti-trans, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, and arguably white supremacist statements” in the years since his firing, and Pajiba’s Dustin Rowles criticized Gillis’ “dehumanization.” “come across as “mean” and “straight out of 1994.” In a 2019 statement, Gillis described himself as a “comedian who pushes boundaries.”

Gillis also addressed his firing in his February monologue, telling viewers that he “honestly, probably shouldn’t be up here.”

“I actually got fired from this show a while ago, but please don’t look,” he said. “If you don’t know who I am, please don’t Google this. That’s okay. Don’t worry about it.”

But the 2019 controversy didn’t derail Gillis’ career, and he’s since found success with his tours and comedy specials like 2023’s “Shane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs.” He also co-created and starred in the Netflix series ” Tires,” which hit the service in May and has been renewed for a second season.

Last month, “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels revealed that he did not approve of Gillis’ firing.

“He said something stupid, but it got blown up until the end of the world,” he told the Wall Street Journal. “I was angry. I thought, ‘You didn’t see what we were going to do and what I was going to try to bring out in him because I thought he was the real thing.'”

How to get tickets to Shane Gillis Live

Artist presales for Gillis’ tour begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time, while local venue presales begin Thursday at 10 a.m. ET and general presales begin Friday at 10 a.m. local time.