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Upcoming Bert Kreischer dates
Dates and live ticket listings appear here as soon as they are on sale. The guide below covers what to know before you buy.
Comedy seating rules for a Bert Kreischer arena night
Stand-up lives on facial expressions and timing, so the goal is a seat where you can watch him and a video screen in the same glance. For most buyers that means a lower-level section (the first raised tier above the floor) facing the stage. The front of the floor is the only place you can read his face without the screens; everything else in an arena relies on them to some degree.
One expectation to set early: a Kreischer show is adult material with constant profanity, and he has told interviewers that arenas leave little room for crowd work (riffing back and forth with people in the seats), so the front row is not a ticket into the act.
Arena and festival seats, closest to farthest
- Front floor: as near to a club experience as an arena gets. Arena comedy floors normally get rows of chairs, all on one level, so a tall person ahead of you can block the stage. The listing will say whether seats are assigned or general admission.
- Lower level, center: the strongest value. The rise clears the floor, and the stage and main screens sit in one line of sight.
- Lower level, sides near the stage: near the stage, but at such a steep angle that the screen often becomes your main view.
- Upper level: stories hold up well on sound alone, and modern arenas carry audio cleanly, but you will be on the screens all night. Choose center over corners.
- Fully Loaded festival dates: outdoors, the grass and unassigned areas are the relaxed choice. Get there early for a clear look at a screen.
Shirt off, stories on: the Permission to Party hour
Kreischer works in long, escalating stories, not quick one-liners. Family life with his wife and daughters, heavy drinking and his own bodily disasters supply most of it. In Razzle Dazzle he is shirtless before the first minute is up, and fans cheer it like a tradition.
Permission to Party broke his usual cycle. Ahead of an October 2025 arena date at Desert Diamond Arena outside Phoenix, he explained to the Phoenix New Times that instead of taking a freshly released special on the road, he had spent 18 months building a new, denser hour. "The Machine," the Russia story most new fans know, should not be expected at every show.
Fully Loaded, drive-ins and a comedy cruise
- 2020, Hot Summer Nights Tour: pandemic-era drive-in shows. The outdoor format led directly to his festival.
- 2022, arena scale: his official biography says Pollstar ranked him fourth on its list of the year's ten highest-grossing tours.
- 2022 to 2024, Fully Loaded Comedy Festival: a touring outdoor comedy bill run like a music festival. The 2023 edition ran from Forest Hills Stadium in Queens on June 14 to The Gorge in Washington State on September 15, and the comics on the bill differed from stop to stop.
- 2025 onward, Permission to Party World Tour: his current headline tour, per his official site.
- November 19 to 23, 2026, Fully Loaded at Sea: a comedy cruise from Miami to Cozumel, sold on its own through the festival.
Current dates show in the listings here and on his tour page.
Getting Kreischer tickets before they go
His draw comes from a famous name, devoted podcast listeners and a large social following, and the closest seats are the first to disappear.
- Presales reward the mailing list. Sign-up and artist presales typically come first, and prime lower-level seats rarely survive to the public on-sale.
- A quick sellout often brings a second show. The added date can take pressure off resale prices for the first.
- Weekends draw the crowd. Friday and Saturday nights in big markets are hardest to get.
- The festival and the cruise sell separately. Fully Loaded tickets buy a whole bill of comics, which can change from city to city.
Reserved Seat orders carry guaranteed entry. Some comedy tours seal phones in pouches during the set; check your event listing and the venue's policy before you go.
How a Florida State partyer became The Machine
Born in St. Petersburg, Florida, on November 3, 1972, and raised in Tampa, Kreischer was in his sixth year at Florida State University in 1997 when Rolling Stone published a six-page profile, "Bert Kreischer: The Undergraduate," crowning him the leading partyer at America's leading party school. The article became the inspiration for National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), a film he says he had nothing to do with. His first sets came in Tallahassee; he later worked the door at the Boston Comedy Club in New York before relocating to Los Angeles in 1999. FX gave him Hurt Bert, and Travel Channel followed with Bert the Conqueror and Trip Flip.
On the specials side, Comedy Central aired Comfortably Dumb in 2009 and Showtime aired The Machine in 2016. Netflix then released four: Secret Time, taped in Philadelphia (2018); Hey Big Boy, in Cleveland (2020); Razzle Dazzle, at the Orpheum Theater in Omaha (2023); and Lucky, back home in Tampa (2025). He has hosted Bertcast since 2012 and co-hosts 2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura, plus Open Tabs and a cooking series, Something's Burning, all through Berty Boy Productions, which he and his wife, LeeAnn, launched in 2022. His signature story, in which a college trip to Russia ends with him unwittingly assisting a mob train robbery, became the feature film The Machine (May 26, 2023), and his Netflix series Free Bert arrived in January 2026, with a second season ordered.
Frequently asked questions
Is the floor or the lower level better for Bert Kreischer?
The front floor is the only place to see his expressions without screens. Beyond the first rows, a lower-level seat facing the stage usually gives a better view because it clears the flat floor.
Does Bert Kreischer pick on the audience?
Rarely in arenas. He has said big rooms leave little space for back-and-forth with the audience, so a close seat is not likely to make you part of the bit.
How old do you have to be to see Bert Kreischer?
Age rules are set by each venue, so check the event listing. Expect nonstop swearing and plenty of drinking stories; it is not a family show.
Does Bert Kreischer still tell The Machine story live?
Do not count on it. The Permission to Party hour is new material he spent about 18 months writing, not a replay of older specials.
What is Fully Loaded at Sea?
A comedy cruise from Miami to Cozumel set for November 19 to 23, 2026, sold separately through the Fully Loaded festival.