Billboard revealed its year-end Boxscore charts, ranking the top tours, venues and promoters of 2025 earlier in December. We’re breaking it down further, looking at the biggest live acts, genre by genre. Now, we continue with comedy.

This year’s top 10 comedy tours feature a familiar slate of names. Half of them appeared on 2024’s roundup, and four were on the rankings for 2023 and 2022. Only two of 2025’s top 10 make their debut appearance. “Weird Al” Yankovic cracks the top five on the back of his Bigger & Weirder Tour, and Nikki Glaser is No. 9 from 120 shows during the tracking period.

Glaser’s marathon haul makes her the act with the most reported shows of the year, not only among comedy acts, but among all 100 acts on the all-genre Top Tours list. The only two acts to play 100 shows or more this year are both comics, with Gabriel Iglesias playing exactly 100 dates.

Glaser is the only woman in comedy’s top 10. It’s not necessarily a breakthrough in representation, but it does improve upon last year’s all-male list. It’s been nine years since a woman led the comedy list, when Amy Schumer grossed $19.5 million from 36 shows in 2016. That was in the wake of her Emmy Award win for outstanding variety sketch series.

Keep reading to check out the 10 highest grossing tours by comedy performers, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. All reported shows worldwide between Oct. 1, 2024, and Sept. 30, 2025, are eligible.

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