Dave Chappelle is taking Karmageddon on the road this fall for seven dates in October and November, with the run set to end Nov. 6 at Madison Square Garden for the 22nd New York Comedy Festival. The tour begins Oct. 20 in Nashville and moves through Charlotte, Toronto, Louisville, Austin and Houston before closing in New York.
That finish gives the Dave Chappelle Tour a clear headline stop, and it comes with a tight ticket clock. Citi cardholders can buy into a presale Sept. 15 at 10 a.m. local time, while general sales open Sept. 17 at noon local time through Live Nation. For fans looking for the exact route, the stretch is short by design: seven shows, seven nights that matter, and no extra stops to pad the calendar.
Chappelle has already spent much of the summer in Yellow Springs, Ohio, for the sixth annual installment of his Summer Camp outdoor comedy performances, hosted Diaspora Calling! Festival in London in August and appeared last week at NYC Still Rising After 25 Years: A 9/11 Charities Comedy Benefit. The fall run turns that busy stretch into a proper tour, with each city getting a late-October or early-November date and New York reserved for the festival closer.
The show itself is being sold as tech-free, which is where the hard edge of the experience appears. Attendees will have devices secured in Yondr pouches and unlocked after the set ends, and anyone using a phone during the performance will be escorted out. Even so, the no-device rule is not absolute: special areas at each venue will allow phones to be unlocked and used if needed, a small release valve built into a tour that otherwise asks the audience to put its attention fully on Chappelle.
That balance is what makes the fall dates more than a simple comedy booking. The tour is built around scarcity, with seven stops across the United States and Canada and one final night at Madison Square Garden that doubles as the New York Comedy Festival opener. What remains unanswered is the set itself — what Chappelle puts into Karmageddon, and how much of the night he leaves unfiltered once the pouches close.
