Events

Wednesday, November 25 — the night before Thanksgiving — brings Carlos Mencia to Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club at 9:30 PM. The pre-holiday crowd in Las Vegas has a specific celebratory looseness to it, and Mencia's unfiltered style of comedy on family, culture, and identity lands particularly well when everyone's already thinking about exactly those things.His […]

Thanksgiving Thursday at 5:00 PM, Sphere at The Venetian Resort is the place to be in Las Vegas after the table clears. The Wizard of Oz at Sphere is the production that's already sold nearly 3 million tickets since opening — and a holiday afternoon slot is a great way to understand why.The 1939 film's […]

Thanksgiving night at Comedy Cellar Las Vegas — Thursday, November 26 at 7 PM — and the room at the Rio is already set up to be one of the livelier crowds of the entire fall run.The club books a rotating five-comic showcase, headliners only, each with 15–20 minutes, and the lineup isn't locked until […]

Thanksgiving night, Thursday November 26 — Jay Reid brings Comedy & Cocktails to Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club at 7:30 PM, giving Las Vegas a live Strip show for the people who chose the city for the holiday.Reid is a Las Vegas native running a long-standing Strip residency, which means he understands what a Thanksgiving-night audience […]

Thursday, November 26 — Thanksgiving night — and Carlos Mencia is at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club, 9:30 PM on the Strip. Spending a holiday in Las Vegas has its own tradition, and a Mencia show on Thanksgiving is arguably the most fitting comedy option in the city: a comedian whose material is built around cultural […]

Black Friday morning at 11:00 AM, Sphere at The Venetian Resort gives you somewhere far better to be than a shopping line. The Wizard of Oz at Sphere has been playing to packed houses since August 2025, and the Friday post-Thanksgiving crowd brings serious energy to the room.The 75-minute experience projects the AI-enhanced 1939 film […]

The Friday, November 27 matinee at Reynolds Hall at The Smith Center puts Elf The Musical on Black Friday afternoon—the perfect counter-programming for Las Vegas visitors who'd rather be in a warm theater than a crowded mall. The 2:00 PM curtain is the same early-start format as the Wednesday show, keeping the whole production family-friendly […]

Friday, November 27th at 7:30 PM, Craig Gass opens a Black Friday weekend at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club on the Las Vegas Strip with an early-evening show.His celebrity impressions — Al Pacino, Gene Simmons, Gilbert Gottfried, Christopher Walken, Sam Kinison among dozens — are delivered with a method-acting depth that makes each one land like […]

Brad Garrett's Comedy Club at MGM hosts Brad Garrett with Trixx on Friday, November 27 at 8:00 PM — a post-Thanksgiving night out built for laughs. Garrett himself is the towering former Everybody Loves Raymond star and longtime Las Vegas comedy champion, and Trixx is one of the club's most reliable headliners.The club is widely […]

LISA's Viva La Lisa residency returns to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace for the Friday night show on November 27, opening the second and final weekend of her historic Las Vegas run.After the sold-out opening-weekend surge, this post-Thanksgiving show brings a new crowd into the room to experience what is already a landmark moment for […]

The Eagles are back at Sphere on the Friday night after Thanksgiving — November 27 at 8:30 PM, opening the final weekend of their fall 2026 Las Vegas run at The Venetian Resort.With 64 total performances at Sphere since 2024, this residency has become a Las Vegas institution faster than almost anything else the venue […]

Black Friday at 9:30 PM — Comedy Cellar Las Vegas at the Rio is where you go when the mall energy gets to be too much and you want a packed room full of people who are actually laughing at something.Five rotating comedians, 15–20 minutes each, in an intimate 300-seat replica of the New York […]