Events

Tuesday, November 24 at 7:30 PM — the Tuesday before Thanksgiving — Michael Yo's Hot Mess Comedy show hits Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club on the Strip at just the right moment in the holiday stretch.His comedy thrives on real-life stories that nobody else could tell the same way, delivered with the rapid-fire energy of someone […]

Tuesday night's 8:00 PM curtain at Sphere at The Venetian Resort puts a whole new spin on a classic — the 1939 Wizard of Oz reborn as a 4D sensory experience built from the ground up for Sphere's wraparound 16K screen. The musical score was re-recorded and engineered specifically for the venue's 167,000-speaker sound system, […]

Tuesday night, 9:30 PM — Comedy Cellar Las Vegas keeps the week rolling at the Rio with a five-comedian showcase that regularly pulls from the same deep talent pool as the legendary New York original.Noam Dworman opened this Las Vegas outpost to bring the Greenwich Village experience west, and the room fully delivers on that […]

The Wednesday, November 25 matinee at Reynolds Hall at The Smith Center—2:00 PM curtain—gives you Elf The Musical on Thanksgiving week's big travel day, an ideal option if you're in Las Vegas for the holiday and looking for something the whole family can enjoy. Buddy's outsized optimism and fish-out-of-water adventure in New York translates beautifully […]

Wednesday at 5:00 PM, Sphere at The Venetian Resort runs one of its most talked-about time slots for The Wizard of Oz — the early-evening show that lets you experience the Emerald City glowing before the Strip lights up outside. This production uses Google's Veo 2 and Imagen 3 AI models to upscale the original […]

Wednesday, November 25 at Comedy Cellar Las Vegas — the night before Thanksgiving, and the Rio fills up with people who made it to Las Vegas for the holiday week and want something real to do.The club's showcase format puts five headliner-level comedians on stage in one show, each with a focused 15–20 minute set […]

Vicki Barbolak closes out her 2026 run at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club with a Wednesday, November 25 show at 7:30 PM — the night before Thanksgiving and one of the warmest crowds the Strip will see all month.A stand-up who has made Las Vegas a genuine comedy home throughout the year, Barbolak brings her “Trailer […]

Trixx is back at Brad Garrett's Comedy Club for the Wednesday show on November 25 — the night before Thanksgiving, 8 PM at MGM Grand.A pre-Thanksgiving Wednesday crowd in Las Vegas is one of the most energetic of the year, and Trixx's high-octane set — sharp social commentary, quick wit, and a physical stage presence […]

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 […]