Ali Siddiq extends Custom Fit tour into 2027 with Radio City and a Nashville arena
The comedian, who built his audience on YouTube, adds 18 dates from January to April 2027. General sale opens on 23 October 2026, and his next special, The Dog, arrives on 13 December.
Ali Siddiq has added 18 dates to his Custom Fit stand-up tour, running from 2 January to 17 April 2027, Deadline reported on 20 October 2026. An artist pre-sale opened on 21 October, and tickets go on general sale on Friday 23 October 2026 at 10am local time.
Radio City and a curated arena bill
The new run includes Radio City Music Hall in New York on 6 March 2027. It closes at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on 17 April 2027, on a bill Siddiq has curated with comics including Mojo Brookzz, Josh Johnson, Ms. Pat and Marcus D. Wiley.
Most of the other stops are theatres and concert halls. The leg opens at Mystic Lake Casino in Minnesota on 2 January and moves to Meridian Hall in Toronto on 8 January. Later dates include Shea's Buffalo Theatre, the Terrace Theater in Long Beach, the Steven Tanger Center in Greensboro, McCaw Hall in Seattle on 13 March and the Fabulous Fox in St. Louis on 20 March, with a further arena date at the Dothan Civic Center Arena in Alabama on 12 February.
From clubs to arenas
Siddiq has now played 64 shows on the tour. The latest, at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on 16 October 2026, sold 7,000 tickets. It followed his first arena dates in Baltimore and Tallahassee, and an arena show in Chicago is still to come. Deadline says he was at first reluctant to play arenas because he valued the closeness of clubs and theatres, but is now moving towards playing them more often.
His audience was built largely on YouTube, where Deadline puts him at 1.6 million subscribers and more than 400 million total views, and he releases several full specials a year there. The latest, My Father, has passed five million views since it premiered on Father's Day, 21 June 2026.
The next, The Dog, is due on 13 December 2026 and will be his third special of the year. Deadline says four more are already filmed for release in 2027.
Earlier in 2026 Siddiq won an NAACP Image Award for My Two Sons, which Deadline calls a rare independently produced and released comedy special to win a major award. His special Rugged later earned three Webby honours, including Best Video & Film Comedy and the People's Voice Award. He also works as an executive producer and distributor for specials by newer comics.
What it means for acts
Siddiq's numbers show that a steady run of full specials released on YouTube can build an audience that buys arena tickets. Mixing theatres with a few arenas, rather than committing to arenas throughout, lets an act test demand city by city. Releasing a special while tickets are on sale keeps new material in front of buyers, and a curated bill like the Nashville one puts other comics in front of an established crowd while filling a bigger room.
