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Comedy Cellar
2026-12-14 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Monday, December 14 at 7 PM at Comedy Cellar Las Vegas — the early show at the Rio starts a new week in a room that was built to look and operate exactly like the New York club that inspired it.
Five TV-caliber comedians rotate through 15–20 minute sets in a single showcase-format show, and the 300-seat layout means you’re always close enough to the stage to catch every beat of the performance. Whether you’re a Las Vegas local or just in town, this is one of the more consistent comedy rooms anywhere in the city.

Josh Wolf
2026-12-14 19:30 - 22:00
Monday, December 14 at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club — Josh Wolf on stage at 7:30 PM deep in the December holiday run on the Strip.
His stand-up has always found the comedy in the gap between expectation and reality, which makes December his natural season and this Las Vegas room his ideal venue. Wolf is a natural in front of an audience, and the chemistry between his material and this intimate space makes every show feel more personal than a standard night out. Tonight is a good one to prioritize.

Spencer James
2026-12-14 20:00 - 22:30
Monday, December 14th at 8:00 PM, Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club at MGM Hotel and Casino opens the pre-Christmas week with Spencer James taking the stage for the first of his seven-night holiday-season run.
A Las Vegas-based stand-up who has entertained crowds at clubs and on cruise ships across the country, James brings a distinctive blend of sharp one-liners, personal storytelling, and the occasional a cappella moment that makes his sets genuinely hard to categorize. He cites Richard Pryor’s vulnerability and Mitch Hedberg’s one-liner instinct as influences, and both are audible in the live show. Starting the holiday week in this Strip room with a hometown headliner this sharp is a very good way to begin December’s final stretch.

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere
2026-12-14 20:00 - 22:30
Monday night, December 14 at 8:00 PM at Sphere at The Venetian Resort, the week opens late with one of the production’s evening shows. A Monday 8 PM slot at Sphere has a particular charm — a deliberate choice, a quieter crowd, and a show that rewards full attention.
The Wizard of Oz at Sphere takes the 1939 film and reconstructs it as a 4D event designed specifically for this building — AI-upscaled to 16K across the 160,000-square-foot screen, scored fresh for 167,000 programmable speakers, and loaded with haptic, wind, fog, fire, and scent effects. Nothing on the Las Vegas Strip offers this kind of sensory depth.

Luenell at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club
2026-12-14 21:30 - 2026-12-15 00:00
Luenell follows up the December 13 show with another set at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club on Monday, December 14 — 9:30 PM at The LINQ.
This deep into her Las Vegas residency, Luenell brings a comfort level with the room that makes each performance feel effortless from the audience’s side — though thirty-plus years of stage time are behind that ease. Her willingness to talk about real pain and real joy in the same set is what keeps people booking tickets on back-to-back nights.

Vicki Barbolak Trailer Park Happy Hour
2026-12-15 17:30 - 20:00
Tuesday, December 15 at 5:30 PM — a week before Christmas, Vicki Barbolak’s Trailer Park Happy Hour lands at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club on the Strip. Las Vegas in mid-December is one of the city’s most lively stretches of the year, and the comedy rooms reflect and amplify that energy all week.
Barbolak’s stand-up channels the humor in everyday domestic life with a specificity that her Las Vegas audience has come to count on through a long, consistent run at this venue — and December audiences respond especially well to comedy grounded in the realities of family and relationships.

Michael Yo
2026-12-15 19:30 - 22:00
Michael Yo wraps the year with a December 15 show at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club — Tuesday night, 7:30 PM, Strip energy running at full holiday pitch.
Having held down this room through the full run of 2026, Yo closes out the year with the same sharp, audience-driven stand-up that made his residency work from the start: biracial and family life stories, fast delivery, and a genuine feel for whatever crowd walks through the door. December in Las Vegas has a specific festive charge that Yo’s warm, confessional style meets without effort. A year-end Tuesday in a great Strip comedy room — a strong way to close things out.

Spencer James
2026-12-15 20:00 - 22:30
Tuesday, December 15th at 8:00 PM, Spencer James returns to Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club at MGM Hotel and Casino for night two of his holiday-week Las Vegas residency.
James is a Las Vegas-based comic who builds his sets from personal experience, first-time relationship material, and the kind of storytelling that draws from both Mitch Hedberg’s precision and Richard Pryor’s emotional honesty. His Comedy Central and Uproar Entertainment credits put him on a national stage, but this club room on the Strip is where his live show does its best work. Tuesday night in the holiday season here has a lot going for it.

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere
2026-12-15 20:00 - 22:30
Tuesday, December 15 at 8:00 PM at Sphere at The Venetian Resort closes the day with the production that has become Las Vegas’s defining entertainment event of 2025 and 2026. The Tuesday night crowd at Sphere tends to be knowledgeable — a lot of people on their second or third visit to the show.
The Wizard of Oz at Sphere distills the 1939 classic to 75 minutes, then delivers it through a 16K wraparound screen, a re-recorded score through 167,000 speakers, and full 4D effects including infrasound haptic seats, atmospheric fog, high-velocity wind, pyrotechnic fire, and scent. Every run rewards a return visit.

Comedy Cellar
2026-12-15 21:30 - 2026-12-16 00:00
Tuesday, December 15 at 9:30 PM — Comedy Cellar Las Vegas runs the late show at the Rio mid-week, and the room has a focused energy all its own at this hour on a Tuesday in December.
The club’s showcase format puts five headliner-grade comedians on stage in one night, each with 15–20 minutes to work a crowd that’s genuinely there for the comedy and not much else. Rotating lineups keep the bill fresh, and the occasional unannounced guest is always a real possibility at a club that books week by week rather than months in advance.

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere
2026-12-16 17:00 - 19:30
Wednesday, December 16 at 5:00 PM at Sphere at The Venetian Resort drops you into Oz right as the midweek energy peaks on the Strip. The early-evening Wednesday show is a reliable sweet spot — late enough to feel like an occasion, early enough to keep the rest of the night open.
The Wizard of Oz at Sphere uses Google AI to push the 1939 film’s visuals to 16K resolution across Sphere’s total-immersion wraparound surface, while the re-recorded score plays through 167,000 programmable speakers. The physical effects — haptic seats, fog, wind, fire, and scent — put you inside the story rather than in front of it. Las Vegas built the right venue for exactly this.

Jiaoying Summers Vegas Residency
2026-12-16 19:30 - 20:30 | Copa Room, 255 East Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, NV, 89169, United States
Get ready for an unforgettable night of laughter with Jiaoying Summers — actress, stand-up comedian, and viral sensation.

Jiaoying Summers is a comedy powerhouse on a rapid rise blending fearless, dark humor with a deeply personal and refreshingly global perspective. She was named as one of Variety’s 10 Comics To Watch for 2025. Born in China and now based in Los Angeles, she turns cultural clashes,immigrant identity, and motherhood into razor-sharp comedy that resonates across continents. With over 1 billion views online and a loyal fanbase of 4+ million followers, Jiaoying is a digital juggernaut whose content regularly goes viral—most notably her “Uber Karen” sketch and her irreverent takes on English names by roasting their meaning in Chinese. Jiaoying made history as the first Chinese comedian to headline the iconic Apollo Theater in 2023 in New York City. She was also inducted into the Asian Hall of Fame, cementing her place as a cultural force.
Jiaoying is the host of the hit podcast Tiger Mom (MILF), where her magnetic personality shines as she connects with fans and guests on a more personal level. She is currently on her international tour, Jiaoying: What Specie Are You?, having just wrapped a 27-show, 20-day run across 9 cities throughout Asia and Australia—all sold out, she is now onto her US leg of the tour that runs through the end of the year, hitting all the major markets.
Whether on stage, online, at home as a mom, or CEO of Summers Group, Jiaoying brings an unfiltered, modern, and global comedic voice that resonates with Gen Z & Boomers alike. Her bold, fearless comedy—blending immigrant identity, dark humor, and viral social commentary—has made her a digital phenomenon and a can’t-miss performer. You don’t want to miss Jiaoying during her Vegas Residency!

Jioaying will be playing a four show Vegas residency at Tuscany Suites & Casino in The Copa Room. Show dates are 9/16/26, 10/21/26, 11/11/26, 12/16/26. VIP admission includes preferred seating with meet and greet, General Admission includes seating only. There is no assigned seating for this show and guests will be sat as they arrive. Tuscany Suites & Casino is bringing back Vintage Vegas with the best in Live Entertainment, value and always free parking.

Nevada Ballet Theatre - The Nutcracker
2026-12-16 19:30 - 22:00
Wednesday evening, December 16 at 7:30 PM — Reynolds Hall at The Smith Center hosts Nevada Ballet Theatre’s The Nutcracker for a midweek performance that captures the holiday season at its most elegant.
George Balanchine’s choreography is the gold standard for this production, and NBT delivers it with spectacular art deco costumes and scenic design that set this Las Vegas staging apart from most. If the December calendar is already full, a Wednesday evening at The Smith Center is worth protecting — this is the kind of show that reminds you why live performance matters.

Vicki Barbolak Trailer Park Happy Hour
2026-12-16 19:30 - 22:00
Wednesday, December 16 at 7:30 PM at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club — the midpoint of the holiday season on the Strip, and Vicki Barbolak’s Trailer Park Happy Hour is the show to be at this Wednesday. The December crowd in Las Vegas skews toward people who are specifically in the city to enjoy themselves, and Barbolak is well-suited to welcoming that kind of audience.
Her comedy is built on genuine personal experience, delivered with a warmth and directness that has become her specific signature at this room over the course of a years-long residency.

Spencer James
2026-12-16 20:00 - 22:30
Wednesday, December 16th at 8:00 PM, Spencer James holds down the midweek stage at Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club inside MGM Hotel and Casino in the heart of his holiday-season run.
A Las Vegas native who has built a national touring career from observational humor and personal storytelling, James mixes sharp one-liners with vulnerability and the occasional vocal performance for a set that’s genuinely hard to put in a single box. His comedy picks at the odd angles of everyday life — the kind of logic that sounds wrong until the punchline makes it feel exactly right. Holiday-week Wednesday in this intimate Strip room is a pleasant surprise waiting to happen.

Carlos Mencia
2026-12-16 21:30 - 2026-12-17 00:00
Wednesday, December 16 at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club is a 9:30 PM show just days before Christmas — a prime night in Las Vegas’s busiest stretch of the year. Carlos Mencia’s stand-up meets the pre-holiday energy with material that’s been sharpened across a full year of residency dates at this Strip room.
His comedy on cultural identity and social class doesn’t take a holiday break; if anything, the festive crowd energy gives his sharp, fast-paced delivery even more friction to work with.

Comedy Cellar
2026-12-16 21:30 - 2026-12-17 00:00
Wednesday, December 16 at 9:30 PM — Comedy Cellar Las Vegas fills out the late-week slate at the Rio, and the mid-December timing puts the room in front of a crowd that’s deep into the holiday stretch and in a great headspace for stand-up.
The club runs five rotating comedians per show, each a television-credited headliner doing 15–20 minutes. Founded as an exact replica of the New York original, this Las Vegas room carries the same showcase energy and the same open-door policy for last-minute drop-ins that have made Comedy Cellar a trusted name in the industry.

Jay Reid
2026-12-17 19:30 - 22:00
Thursday, December 17 at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club closes out the 2026 Comedy & Cocktails run — Jay Reid at 7:30 PM, one week before Christmas on the most festive stretch of the Las Vegas Strip calendar.
Reid ends the year as he’s run the whole residency: a Las Vegas-born comedian who knows this city and this room, delivering sharp stand-up to a crowd that came here to have a good time. The final Thursday of the year at the LINQ Promenade is a fitting close to a year-long weekly run that has made this show one of the Strip’s most consistent live comedy options.

Nevada Ballet Theatre - The Nutcracker
2026-12-17 19:30 - 22:00
Thursday, December 17 at 7:30 PM at Reynolds Hall in The Smith Center — Nevada Ballet Theatre’s The Nutcracker takes the stage for a pre-weekend evening performance with all the holiday anticipation that the week before Christmas brings.
NBT’s dancers bring the Sugarplum Fairy, the Snow Queen, Mother Ginger, and all the beloved Divertissements to life through Balanchine’s choreography, with a production design that makes this Las Vegas staging genuinely special. A Thursday night at The Smith Center before the weekend rush has a calm, attentive quality that suits the magic of this show well.

Spencer James
2026-12-17 20:00 - 22:30
Thursday, December 17th at 8:00 PM — Spencer James is four nights into his holiday-week run at Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club inside MGM Hotel and Casino, heading into the final stretch of the week.
He pulls material from daily observations, warped reactions to relationships, and the kind of odd-angle humor — his material on guys in wheelchairs buying ladders at Home Depot is a classic example — that makes you lean forward trying to follow the logic and then laugh hard once the punchline snaps it all into place. Pre-Christmas Thursday crowds in Las Vegas tend to be in just the right mood for it. James delivers every night of this week, and Thursday is no exception.

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere
2026-12-17 20:00 - 22:30
Thursday night, December 17 at 8:00 PM at Sphere at The Venetian Resort: the weekend is close, the show is ready, and The Wizard of Oz at Sphere has been filling this building to thunderous effect since August 2025. A late-Thursday show at Sphere feels like a head start on the weekend.
The 75-minute experience wraps the AI-enhanced 16K film around you on a 160,000-square-foot screen built to surround rather than face an audience. Sphere’s 167,000-speaker immersive sound system carries the re-recorded score while haptic seats, wind, fog, fire, and scent complete the sensory picture. Follow it up with dinner in the Venetian and you’ve got a full Las Vegas evening.

Carlos Mencia
2026-12-17 21:30 - 2026-12-18 00:00
Thursday, December 17 at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club brings Carlos Mencia to 9:30 PM one week before Christmas in Las Vegas. This is peak Strip season — packed rooms, high energy, a crowd that has committed to making the most of a night out — and Mencia’s residency is built for exactly that audience.
He’s been doing this long enough to know how to work a December crowd, and his material on race, identity, and the absurdity of American cultural life hits a festive room with a particular kind of cathartic force.

Comedy Cellar
2026-12-17 21:30 - 2026-12-18 00:00
Thursday, December 17 at 9:30 PM — Comedy Cellar Las Vegas at the Rio opens the late show with one of the most reliable comedy formats in Las Vegas: five headliners, one stage, no padding, no filler act opening for thirty minutes.
The club assembles its rotating lineup at the end of each week, booking the best-available talent rather than locking names in months ahead. That approach — the same one used at the Greenwich Village original — is what makes the bill at any given show genuinely hard to predict, and genuinely worth showing up for.

Best Friday Brunch in Las Vegas at 18bin – $25 Bottomless Mimosas + Live DJ
2026-12-18 10:00 - 17:00 | 18Bin Bar & Restaurant, 107 East Charleston Boulevard, #Suite 150, Las Vegas, NV, 89104, United States
Experience the best Friday brunch in Las Vegas at 18bin with $25 bottomless mimosas, live DJs & good vibes from 10AM–5PM!

Comedy Cellar
2026-12-18 19:00 - 21:30
Friday, December 18 at 7 PM kicks off a busy pre-holiday weekend at Comedy Cellar Las Vegas inside the Rio, and the room is one of the more genuinely fun 300-seat comedy venues you’ll find anywhere in this city.
Five TV-headliner comedians each take 15–20 minutes in the club’s signature showcase format, rotating weekly so the bill stays sharp. The Comedy Cellar has kept its reputation tight for decades by finalizing lineups close to showtime — which means a Friday night here always has some element of the unexpected.

Jessimae Peluso
2026-12-18 19:30 - 22:00
Jessimae Peluso opens her Las Vegas weekend at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club on Friday, December 18 at 7:30 PM. Known from two seasons of MTV’s Girl Code, Peluso builds her stand-up on raw personal storytelling, emotional honesty, and an unfiltered energy that grabs a room quickly.
She started in Boston improv before moving to New York and developing one of the more distinctive voices in stand-up — direct, vulnerable, and genuinely funny. A Friday night in pre-holiday Las Vegas with Peluso is a strong way to kick off a December trip to the Strip.

Nevada Ballet Theatre - The Nutcracker
2026-12-18 19:30 - 22:00
Friday, December 18 at 7:30 PM at Reynolds Hall in The Smith Center — Nevada Ballet Theatre’s The Nutcracker opens the final full weekend of performances with the first Friday night show of the run.
The weekend-opening crowd gives this show a festive charge that the production more than earns: Balanchine’s choreography, art deco era design, and Tchaikovsky’s score set against cutting-edge stagecraft inside Las Vegas’s premier concert hall. NBT is the city’s own resident ballet company, and this holiday production is the reason local audiences have been loyal for years.

Spencer James
2026-12-18 20:00 - 22:30
Friday, December 18th at 8:00 PM, Spencer James hits the weekend at Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club at MGM Hotel and Casino for the second-to-last full night of his holiday-week Las Vegas engagement.
James is a homegrown Las Vegas comedian who has been honing his craft on clubs and cruise ships nationwide, building stand-up that blends personal storytelling, sharp observational humor, and occasional vocal performance into a live set that feels consistently fresh. A hometown headliner at a Strip club on a December Friday night — that is a combination this city should take full advantage of. He’s good, and the room will know it.

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere
2026-12-18 20:00 - 22:30
Friday night, December 18 at 8:00 PM at Sphere at The Venetian Resort is peak time for a production that has become one of the most financially successful entertainment events in Las Vegas history — nearly 3 million tickets sold and still drawing capacity crowds.
The Wizard of Oz at Sphere wraps the AI-enhanced 1939 film at 16K resolution around you on a 160,000-square-foot screen, with a re-recorded orchestral score through 167,000 programmable speakers and 4D effects — infrasound haptics, fog, fire, wind, and scent — designed to make the Emerald City feel genuinely real. Friday nights at Sphere in December draw the most charged audiences of the week. This is what Las Vegas evenings are built for.

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2026-12-18 20:30 - 2026-12-19 01:00 | CASBAR Lounge, 2535 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV, 89109, United States
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