John Crist at the Adler Theatre -- December 8.
Sunday, December 8, 7 p.m.
Adler Theatre, 136 East Third Street, Davenport IA
A YouTube sensation who has opened for the likes of Dave Chappelle, Seth Meyers, and Jeff Foxworthy, Christian comedian Josh Crist brings his "Jokes for Humans Comedy Tour" to Davenport's Adler Theatre on December 8, his observational comedy beloved from such YouTube specials as 2022's What Are We Doing? and last year's Would Like to Release a Statement.
Born in a suburb of Atlanta in 1984, Crist earned a 2006 journalism degree from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, and moved to Colorado, where he began performing his nascent standup routine at open-mic nights, local comedy clubs, churches, casinos, and restaurants. In 2009, Crist made his first national comedy debut with an appearance on Louie Anderson's Las Vegas comedy show Larger Than Life, an engagement that led to more frequent bookings and, in 2012, Crist winning the Denver Improv's Got Laughs Competition and appearing as a finalist on Comedy Central's Up Next Comedy Competition. After relocating to Los Angeles, Crist released his first comedy DVD I Got Questions in 2015, and the following summer, he developed the three-minute comedy sketch "Christian Music: How It's Made." Written by Crist and produced by Aaron Chewning, the video starred the duo as record executives telling a new Christian band how to make it big in the music business and the short-form entertainment quickly went video went viral, now claiming more than two million views on YouTube.
Later videos such as “Millennial International,” “Road Rage in the Church Parking Lot,” and “Every Parent at Disney” cemented Crist's fame with a collective total of more than one billion video views, and the comedian's national “The Human Being Tour” sold in excess of 197,000 tickets between 2018 and 2019. An inclusion among the Top 100 Global Tours list in 2019, Crist has performed all over the world, and in 2023, he began his multi-city national “Emotional Support” tour selling out theaters all over the United States. In 2022, Crist released his second special What Are We Doing? on YouTube and also released his best-selling book Delete That in the fall. The comedian also hosts the weekly podcast Net Positive featuring special guests every other week. When asked where he finds the inspiration to write jokes, Crist says, “I grew up in the deep south, my dad is a pastor, and I was the third of eight homeschooled children. My first job was at Chick-fil-A. Coming from a background like that, how do you not write jokes?!”
John Crist's national tour comes to Davenport on December 8, admission to the 7 p.m. performance is $29.75-49.75, and tickets are available by calling (800)745-3000 or visiting DavenportLive.com/the-adler-theatre.
