Events

Wednesday, December 23 at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club is a 9:30 PM show on Christmas Eve eve — possibly the most festive night of the entire residency calendar. Carlos Mencia performing two nights before Christmas in Las Vegas is the kind of combination that only makes sense in this city, and it absolutely works.His comedy […]

Wednesday, December 23 at 9:30 PM — Comedy Cellar Las Vegas fills the room at the Rio on Christmas Eve Eve, and the crowd is in full holiday stride by the time the first comic hits the stage.Five rotating comedians, each headliner-caliber, take the stage in the club's signature showcase format: 15–20 minutes per comic, […]

Christmas Eve, Thursday December 24 at 2:00 PM — Reynolds Hall at The Smith Center hosts Nevada Ballet Theatre's The Nutcracker matinee on one of the most special afternoons of the entire year.There are few better ways to spend Christmas Eve than watching NBT's dancers perform Balanchine's choreography as Tchaikovsky's score fills this Las Vegas […]

Christmas Eve at 7 PM — Comedy Cellar Las Vegas at the Rio runs an early show on December 24, and the room fills with visitors and locals who chose a great comedy club over every other option Las Vegas offers tonight.The five-comedian showcase puts rotating TV-headliner talent on stage, 15–20 minutes each, in a […]

Christmas Eve at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club: Carlos Mencia, Thursday, December 24, 9:30 PM. Spending Christmas Eve at a Strip comedy club is its own very Las Vegas tradition, and Mencia's material on family dynamics, cultural identity, and the way different backgrounds collide is fitting for a room full of people who chose comedy over […]

Christmas night at 9:30 PM — Comedy Cellar Las Vegas keeps the lights on at the Rio for a late show on December 25, and the room fills up with people who decided laughter is exactly the right call for a holiday evening.Five rotating headliner-level comedians work through 15–20 minute sets in the club's showcase […]

Saturday, December 26 at 2:00 PM at Reynolds Hall in The Smith Center, Nevada Ballet Theatre returns with a post-Christmas matinee of The Nutcracker for visitors and locals still in the full spirit of the season.NBT's Balanchine production runs through the complete arc of beloved characters — the Sugarplum Fairy, Dewdrop, the Nutcracker Prince — […]

Cool Air Comedy closes out 2026 with Skillz Hudson at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club — Saturday, December 26 at 5:30 PM, the day after Christmas on the Las Vegas Strip with one of the year's most relaxed and good-spirited crowds.Post-Christmas Las Vegas has its own specific energy: people have time, they're in good spirits, and […]