Josh Johnson's Comedy Band Camp Tour: Multi-Night Stands in 17 Cities
Nobody in stand-up is producing at Josh Johnson's pace right now, and the Comedy Band Camp tour is built to match: 44 shows across 17 cities through December, played almost entirely as two- and three-night stands rather than one-night drive-bys. When he settles into a city, he stays a while — three nights at the Masonic in San Francisco, three at the Fillmore Detroit, a two-night stand at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.
If you know Johnson, it's probably from one of two places: The Daily Show, where he's a correspondent after joining as a staff writer in 2017, or YouTube, where he's become the fastest turnaround artist in comedy — full stand-up sets on the week's news, posted while the news is still news. His December 2024 hour on the Luigi Mangione story is the defining example of the form. His latest special, Symphony, arrived in May 2026, following Up Here Killing Myself (2023) and # (Hashtag) (2021).
Tour Dates
Dates marked (two shows) have an early and a late performance. Multi-night runs are listed as ranges — each night is a separate ticket.
August 2026
- Saturday, August 8 – Sunday, August 9 — Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie Arts Centre, Halifax, NS (two nights)
- Friday, August 14 – Sunday, August 16 — Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis, MN (three nights)
- Friday, August 21 – Saturday, August 22 — Kingsbury Hall, Salt Lake City, UT (two nights)
- Friday, August 28 – Sunday, August 30 — The Masonic, San Francisco, CA (three nights)
September 2026
- Friday, September 4 – Saturday, September 5 — L'Olympia, Montreal, QC (two shows each night)
- Thursday, September 10 — Madison Square Garden, New York, NY — "NYC Still Rising After 25 Years," a 9/11 charities comedy benefit with a multi-comedian lineup, not a Band Camp tour stop
- Friday, September 18 — The Bushnell (Mortensen Hall), Hartford, CT (two shows)
- Saturday, September 19 — Palace Theatre, Albany, NY (two shows)
- Friday, September 25 – Saturday, September 26 — Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN (two nights; two shows Saturday)
October 2026
- Friday, October 2 – Saturday, October 3 — DAR Constitution Hall, Washington, DC (two nights; two shows Friday)
- Friday, October 16 — Orpheum Theater, Madison, WI
- Saturday, October 17 — Riverside Theater, Milwaukee, WI (two shows)
- Friday, October 23 – Sunday, October 25 — Vogue Theatre, Vancouver, BC (three nights)
- Friday, October 30 – Saturday, October 31 — The Factory, St. Louis, MO (two nights; two shows Saturday)
November 2026
- Friday, November 6 – Saturday, November 7 — Academy of Music, Philadelphia, PA (two nights)
- Friday, November 20 – Sunday, November 22 — Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA (three nights)
December 2026
- Friday, December 11 – Sunday, December 13 — The Fillmore Detroit, Detroit, MI (three nights)
- Wednesday, December 16 – Friday, December 18 — Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg, FL (three nights)
Tickets
Check the Josh Johnson page on StandUpdates for ticket links and updated dates — listings refresh throughout the tour.
What to Expect
The multi-night format isn't an accident — it's the whole premise. A comic who writes a new set every week doesn't need to protect one polished hour, and the Band Camp routing gives him room to make each night its own show. Expect the mix that made the YouTube sets essential: whatever happened this week, run through the calmest delivery in comedy, alongside the more personal long-form material of the recent specials.
It's also a snapshot of how big the room has gotten. Two nights at the Ryman and three at Seattle's Paramount is theater-headliner territory, and the September Madison Square Garden benefit — a multi-comedian 9/11 charities show, worth calling out separately from the tour — puts him on the biggest stage in New York the night before the anniversary.
Cities on the Tour
The Comedy Band Camp tour plays 17 cities including Minneapolis, MN, San Francisco, CA, Montreal, QC, Nashville, TN, Washington, DC, Vancouver, BC, Seattle, WA, and Detroit, MI.
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