The SUCDb records, pictured as an old leather-bound book with a tooled spine, lit warm on black cloth

The records

SUCDb: the Stand-Up Comedy Database.

The records D.O.C. runs on: who the comics are, the work they made, the era it landed in, where the rooms are and what has been checked — with the source and the date on each. People going out, comics and the people who book them read the same records, so a fix in one place shows everywhere.

995comedians, each with a sourced profile

421on the road — a show still to come, listed on the room’s, the seller’s or their own page (the Comedy Calendar) →9eras of stand-up on the Legends ballots, with 93 comedians filed where their work landed →269clubs and 47 regular comedy venues in 50 states and D.C., checked on their own sites →12rooms with a full night planned around them →

The comedians

Find a comedian. Follow the work.

Each profile carries its sources and the date it was checked, and comedians on the Legends ballots are filed under the era their work landed in — twelve per era. “On D.O.C.” marks a comic on a Legends ballot or D.O.C.'s touring list. Open any card for the whole record. Not sure what you like yet? Find your comedy lane in twelve rounds →

995 of 995 comedians

The comedians in SUCDb, A to Z

995 stand-up comedians, past and present, each with a career record and its sources: where they started, their specials, the shows they came through and, for those working now, their next dates. Pick a name for the record.

Why isn't my favorite comedian here?

SUCDb follows stand-up and the comedy that grows straight out of it. Someone missing may not have a record yet, may be mostly another kind of comedian, or may be a host whose monologue work only overlaps stand-up. Missing does not mean rejected: new records come in as each one is written up and sourced. Who gets a record, and why a famous name may not be one →

Milestones

The stadium era

The biggest crowds, the first comedians into stadiums, ballparks and live streaming, and the tours that sold the most — each in its source's own terms, with the date D.O.C. read it. A record is a world record its source documents as a measurable best; a first, a documented first at that room or platform; a milestone, a big achievement short of a world record — one venue's own record among them.

World record17 July 2026

73,946

The largest attendance for a comedian

Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia

Guinness World Records: 73,946 people saw Shane Gillis at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on 17 July 2026 — the largest attendance for a comedian.

Guinness World Records ↗

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World record6 April 2025 – 16 August 2026

2.05M

The most tickets sold on a stand-up comedy tour

The Big Dumb Eyes World Tour, 129 venues

Guinness World Records: 2,045,040 tickets for the Big Dumb Eyes World Tour, played in 129 venues from 6 April 2025 to 16 August 2026 — the most ever sold for a stand-up comedy tour.

Guinness World Records ↗

World record27 February 2025

60 hours

The longest stand-up show by one comedian

Lagos, Nigeria

Guinness World Records: 60 hours of stand-up by one comedian, in Lagos, Nigeria — the record is dated 27 February 2025.

Kevwe Dolor

Guinness World Records ↗

World record6 May 2023

$1.79M

The highest gross for a single stand-up performance

Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles

Guinness World Records: £1,410,000 ($1,790,206.50) for Armageddon at the Hollywood Bowl on 6 May 2023 — the highest gross for one stand-up performance.

Guinness World Records ↗

World record12–15 April 2015

80h 5m

The longest stand-up show by many comedians

Nashville, Tennessee

Guinness World Records: 80 hours and 5 minutes without a stop, 12–15 April 2015, run by NashvilleStandUp.com — Ralphie May, Hannibal Buress and Al Jackson among the comics.

NashvilleStandUp.com

Guinness World Records ↗

First11 July 2026

Wrigley

The first comedian to sell out Wrigley Field

Wrigley Field, Chicago

WBEZ Chicago, 7 July 2026: the first comedian to sell out Wrigley Field, for his show on Saturday, 11 July — the first comedy show the ballpark had hosted.

WBEZ Chicago ↗

Stadium first21 March 2026

SoFi

The first sold-out comedy show at SoFi Stadium

SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles

Jo Koy's promoter, Aiken: on 21 March 2026 he and Gabriel Iglesias became the first to headline a sold-out comedy show at SoFi Stadium. The Los Angeles Times had more than 70,000 expected.

Aiken Promotions ↗ · Los Angeles Times ↗

Streaming first4 March 2023

Live

The first artist to perform live on Netflix

Hippodrome Theatre, Baltimore — on Netflix

Netflix: Selective Outrage, streamed live from Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre to 190 countries on 4 March 2023, was Netflix's first-ever live event, and Rock the first artist to perform live on it.

Netflix, 10 November 2022 ↗ · Netflix Tudum ↗

First21 August 2022

Fenway

The first comedian to perform at Fenway Park

Fenway Park, Boston

The Boston Red Sox: his show on Sunday, 21 August 2022 made him the first comedian to perform at Fenway Park. Rhode Island FC, 28 April 2026, announcing his 12 June show at its Centreville Bank Stadium: at Fenway more than 35,000 people packed the stands — the largest audience of his career.

Boston Red Sox ↗ · Rhode Island FC, 28 April 2026 ↗

First2022

Dodgers

The first comedian to perform at Dodger Stadium

Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles

Netflix, 17 October 2022: at Netflix Is a Joke: The Festival he became the first comedian ever to perform at Dodger Stadium. The Los Angeles Times (5 March 2026) adds that he sold it out twice, filming Stadium Fluffy.

Netflix Tudum ↗ · Los Angeles Times ↗

FirstJune 2016

MSG

The first woman in stand-up to sell out Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, New York

Her own site, 24 June 2016: the first female stand-up comedian to sell out Madison Square Garden, the night she announced a world tour of more than 50 cities.

amyschumer.com, in the Internet Archive's copy of 2 July 2016 ↗

First30 August 2015

NFL

The first comedian to headline an NFL stadium

Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia

The Philadelphia Eagles, 20 February 2015: his What Now? tour show at Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday, 30 August would be the first time a comedian had headlined an NFL football stadium. The Philadelphia Inquirer's review that night: fifty-three thousand people packed the stadium.

Philadelphia Eagles ↗ · The Philadelphia Inquirer, 30 August 2015, in the Internet Archive's copy ↗

Tour milestoneJanuary 2026

$77.5M

The top comedy tour, two years running

The Big Dumb Eyes World Tour

Pollstar, January 2026: the Big Dumb Eyes World Tour topped its Top 100 Comedy Tours chart for 2025 — 962,955 tickets at 93 shows, and $77.5 million, about $34 million more than the next comic — his second year in a row at the top.

Pollstar, 16 January 2026 ↗ · Pollstar, 20 January 2026 ↗

Venue recordNovember 2025

31K+

State Farm Arena's biggest non-sporting crowd

State Farm Arena, Atlanta

Pollstar, 16 January 2026: more than 31,000 over two nights in November 2025 — the arena's all-time attendance record for a non-sporting event.

Pollstar ↗

Venue records18–22 September 2024

5 × MSG

Four Madison Square Garden records in one run

Madison Square Garden, New York

Pollstar, 30 September 2024: five sold-out nights gave him the arena's records for a comedian's most consecutive shows (five) and most shows in all (ten), and for the most tickets (91,336) and highest gross ($10.7 million) on one tour.

Pollstar ↗

Venue milestone2024

17,016

The youngest comedian to sell out the Hollywood Bowl

Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles

Pollstar, 16 December 2024: at 28, during the Netflix Is A Joke festival, he drew 17,016 — the youngest comedian to perform at and sell out the Hollywood Bowl.

Pollstar ↗

Venue recordFebruary 2024

6 ×

Six sold-out Forum shows in a row

The Forum, Inglewood

The Los Angeles Times, 5 March 2026: he has sold out the Forum a record six consecutive times — more than any other comedian — the sixth in February 2024, in front of 17,500, when Gabriel Iglesias walked on with a plaque.

Los Angeles Times ↗

Read 26 September 2026. Records change: each card links to where it came from.

Your lists

Your comics, on this device

Save a special to watch, mark what you've watched and who you've seen live, give your own stars — from any record's sheet. The comics you follow are Your D.O.C. It is all kept in this browser only: no account, and nobody sees it, not D.O.C. and not the comic.

“Why isn't this person in SUCDb?”

Who gets a SUCDb record

SUCDb is a database of stand-ups and the comedy that grows straight out of stand-up. A famous funny person with no record here has usually taken another road into comedy — improv, sketch, acting, writing — and some are stand-ups whose record isn't written yet. Here is one route SUCDb does not count, as the person's own history gives it.

ExampleChris Farley

Main roadImprov and sketch

The routeArk Improv Theatre, Madison → The Second City's touring company, then its Mainstage (1989) → SNL (1990) → films

In SUCDb?No — a major comedy figure, not a career stand-up

The same way of looking tells a stand-up who later acts from an actor who later tries stand-up, a monologue host from a touring comic, and a comedy writer from someone whose career is live stand-up. The Launching Pads show the stand-ups who did come through Saturday Night Live, The Second City and the rest.

“Every famous comedian started in stand-up.” “Comedian” is a bigger category than “stand-up comedian.” Sketch, improv, acting, radio and writing have produced major comedy careers without a stand-up career first.That matters here because SUCDb is a stand-up database, not a list of every funny person who ever became famous.

“If you’re funny, you should be able to write a sitcom.” Stand-up writing, sketch writing, monologue writing and scripted television writing overlap, but they are not the same job. Mitch Hedberg made a joke of Hollywood’s version on his 1999 Comedy Central special: “Can you act? Can you write? Write us a script.” To him it was like telling someone who worked hard to become a good cook, “All right, you’re a cook… Can you farm?”Being great at one comedy craft doesn’t make anyone lesser for not being great at the others.

“Writers are behind the scenes. Performers are onstage.” Comedy history is full of writers who became performers, performers who wrote their own material, and people who moved back and forth. Mike Myers wrote and performed in The Second City’s revues before SNL.For somebody trying to get into comedy, “writer first” is a real career path — not a consolation prize.

“SNL cast members are basically stand-ups.” Some absolutely are. Others came through improv, sketch, acting, writing or a mix of them. SNL is a sketch-comedy institution, not a certificate that everybody in the cast had the same training.So SUCDb shows the road each person actually took, instead of turning everybody into a stand-up after the fact.

“A late-night monologue is just stand-up.” It can look like stand-up: one person telling jokes to a live audience. But a television monologue can involve a staff of writers, a daily news cycle, rehearsal, producers and a format built for the show.That is why a late-night host is not counted as a stand-up here unless their own career says so, and why the Launching Pads name hosts apart.

The other roads into comedy career routes, not rankings

Stand-up firstOpen mics → clubs → touring → late night and specials → television, film, writing or producing.

Writer firstJokes, sketches, scripts → a writers’ room → on-camera work, producing, creating — or stand-up later.

Improv firstTraining and a troupe → a stage ensemble → sketch television → acting, writing, film or creating. Chris Farley’s road.

Sketch firstCharacters and ensemble writing → live or online sketch → television, film and writers’ rooms. Mike Myers wrote and performed in The Second City’s revues before SNL.

Actor firstTheater or screen acting → comic roles → writing, producing, hosting or live comedy.

The modern hybridPodcasts, social video, YouTube, writing and stand-up → an audience → touring, specials, television or film.

Career routes come from each person's own documented history, read on 28 September 2026: The Second City — Chris Farley ↗ · The Second City — Mike Myers ↗ · SNL Archives — the cast index ↗ · Comedy Central Stand-Up — Mitch Hedberg: Comedy Central Presents (first shown 5 January 1999), the joke at 2:48 ↗

What goes in, and what never does

The rules the records are kept by. They are what makes one set of records safe to share between a fan, a comic and a booker.

A fact goes in with its sourceThe page it came from travels with it. Where there is no source, the record says so rather than sounding sure.

A check carries its dateTours end and rooms close. A record says when it was last checked, so an old one reads as old.

The comic's word outranks oursOnce submissions open, a comic can claim their record on Your SUCDb record and correct, extend or withdraw what is said about them. Their version wins.

No fee without the performerA rate appears only if the performer approved it; otherwise it is quote-only. D.O.C. never estimates what somebody charges.

No fan is shown unless they signWhat you pick stays with you. Nothing here puts a fan's name or whereabouts in front of a comic or a venue — except what you choose to sign on a Thanks for the Laughs note: a first name, the initial of your last, and where you saw them. Never a full name, and never contact details.

Wrong is one line to fixA club moves, a mic stops running. A record that is wrong gets fixed at the source, and the fix shows on every page that reads it. Seen something wrong? Tell D.O.C. on Corrections and contact; if the record is yours, claim it on Your SUCDb record. The same two links sit at the foot of a record.

SUCDb: the Stand-Up Comedy Database.

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The stadium era

The largest attendance for a comedian

The most tickets sold on a stand-up comedy tour

The longest stand-up show by one comedian

The highest gross for a single stand-up performance

The longest stand-up show by many comedians

The first comedian to sell out Wrigley Field

The first sold-out comedy show at SoFi Stadium

The first artist to perform live on Netflix

The first comedian to perform at Fenway Park

The first comedian to perform at Dodger Stadium

The first woman in stand-up to sell out Madison Square Garden

The first comedian to headline an NFL stadium

The top comedy tour, two years running

State Farm Arena's biggest non-sporting crowd

Four Madison Square Garden records in one run

The youngest comedian to sell out the Hollywood Bowl

Six sold-out Forum shows in a row

Your comics, on this device

Who gets a SUCDb record

The other roads into comedy career routes, not rankings

What goes in, and what never does