Live Nation Teams With Funny Or Die For Comedy Tour

LOS ANGELES (CelebrityAccess MediaWire) — Live Nation has announced that they are partnering with comedy video website Funny Or Die in a new comedy tour that will hit the road in late summer and early fall.

The Funny Or Die Presents The Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival features a lineup of comedians that includes Dave Chappelle, as well as Flight of the Conchords, Al Madrigal, Brody Steven, Chris D'Elia, Demetri Martin, Hannibal Buress, Jim Jefferies, John Mulaney, and Kristen Schaal, among others.

The tour is set to kick off on August 23rd at the Austin 360 Amphitheater and runs through September before wrapping up at the Desert Sky Pavilion in Phoenix, AZ on Sept. 22nd.

The tour will mark comedian Dave Chapelle's first major tour since leaving his highly rated 2003 television series "Chapelle's Show" on Comedy Central. Since leaving the show, Chappelle has continued to work rooms from New York to Los Angeles and everywhere in between, often dropping in unannounced to the surprise of fans.

The full list of tourdates

Fri 23-Aug – Austin, TX – austin360 Amphitheater
Sat 24-Aug – Houston, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Sun 25-Aug – Dallas, TX – Gexa Energy Pavilion
Fri 30-Aug – Pittsburgh, PA – First Niagara Pavilion
Sat 31 Aug – Tinley Park, IL – First Midwest Bank Amphitheater
Sun 1-Sep – Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre
Fri 6-Sep – Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center
Sat 7-Sep – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
Sun 8-Sep – Mansfield, MA – Comcast Center
Fri 13-Sep – Denver, CO – Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
Sun 15-Sep – Irvine, CA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Fri 20-Sep – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheater
Sun 22-Sep – Phoenix, AZ – Desert Sky Pavilion

-CelebrityAccess Staff Writers