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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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