Kathleen Madigan’s 33-year comedy career is showing no signs of slowing down as she announces The Day Drinking Tour, coming to a theater near you in 2025.
Comedy road warrior Kathleen Madigan will hit the road for “The Day Drinking Tour” in early 2025, marking her 35th year as a touring comic.
Madigan has regularly performed 250+ dates per year over her three decade career, and the 2025 tour will begin January 17 at Omaha, Nebraska’s the Steelhouse and has an initial run of 29 dates with stops in Washington, D.C.. Charlotte, North Carolina, New Orleans, Orlando and more.
Kathleen will bring “The Day Drinking Tour” to Orlando on April 11, 2025 at 8 pm, taking to the stage at Hard Rock Live Orlando.
Tickets for the show are available now. Hurry and get your tickets before they’re gone!
Kathleen Madigan is described as the funniest woman doing stand-up right now, but no gender qualifier is necessary. Along with Lewis Black, Brian Regan and Jim Gaffigan, she’s one of the funniest stand-up comedians of her generation.
“I just want to tell jokes,” says Madigan, “I didn’t start doing open mics to become an actor on a sitcom or in a TV commercial. Those things never even crossed my mind. I just like to tell jokes for an hour or so and laugh. For a few of us working today, this was our goal. We don’t have any more goals. Can’t you ever have a goal, reach it and then enjoy it? This society is being driven by type A lunatics that say ‘you have to set more goals.’ No you don’t. Have a seat and enjoy the fact that you’re here! Maybe that’s the Irish in me talking, though.”
It’s been a 25 year career of 250 nights a year on the road. “We don’t get time off like a band. Our tours never end. That’s why it makes me laugh when people say ‘how long is your tour?’ Well so far, 25 years.”
She’s gone from one nighters, to club gigs, to theaters, to headlining the Mirage in Las Vegas. She’s won the American Comedy Award for “Best Female Comedian” and the Phyllis Diller award for “Best Female Comedian.”
She’s done two USO tours to Iraq and Afganistan with pals Lewis Black, Robin Williams, John Bowman and musicals acts Kid Rock, The Zac Brown Band, Kix Brooks and Kellie Pickler.
“There’s no better show on earth than a show for the troops. Trust me, no crowd is as happy to see a show as 1000 soldiers in Kabul. I do USO shows at home here in the US too but the further people are away, the more they appreciate it. I don’t think they get paid enough for a hard job so I like to do something for free when I can.”
Madigan has performed internationally at festivals and theaters in Ireland, England, Australia and has filmed six Montreal Gala Shows at the Montreal Comedy Festival for Canadian television. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri Kathleen splits her time between the road, Los Angeles and Missouri.
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