Michael Blaustein sold out an early Sacramento show, while demand also brought an additional "Taste Me" tour date
American stand-up comedian Michael Blaustein performed on Saturday, September 12, 2026, at Channel 24 in Sacramento as part of the final leg of "The Taste Me Tour: The Final Leg". The venue's official website marked the first show, starting at 7 p.m., as sold out, confirming strong audience interest in one of the California stops on his current tour. Doors for that performance opened at 6 p.m., and organizers Another Planet Entertainment and Outback Presents added a later show on the same day because of demand. For the additional show, doors were scheduled to open at 9 p.m., with the program beginning at 9:30 p.m. Sacramento thus received two Blaustein performances on the same evening, an important indicator of the demand accompanying the final phase of the "Taste Me" project.
The first show sold out, the second was added due to demand
When reporting on the event, it is important to distinguish between the two shows. Channel 24 explicitly marked the 7 p.m. performance as "Sold Out", while the later show was presented as an additional performance introduced because of high demand. The available official announcements therefore confirm that the earlier show sold out, but they do not provide an equally clear final confirmation that the 9:30 p.m. show was also sold out. The very fact that the organizer opened a second performance, however, shows that the originally planned capacity was not sufficient for the interest that emerged before the event. Ticketmaster also listed an overall limit of eight tickets per buyer for the early show, with the general sale beginning on April 17, 2026, after several presale phases that started on April 15.
The Channel 24 concert venue hosted a stand-up program in this case rather than a music concert, so it is more precise to refer to it as a comedy show or performance. On the official website, the event was classified as an all-ages program, with a note that door and start times were subject to change. Organizers advertised the performance as part of the "final leg" phase, that is, the final leg of the "Taste Me" tour. This description does not mean that Sacramento was the final stop of the entire tour. Current ticket-sale schedules show that Blaustein continues with a series of performances in other U.S. cities after Sacramento, with dates extending into the final months of 2026.
Sacramento came immediately after Oakland
The Sacramento performance was part of an intensive run of dates in the western United States. Another Planet Entertainment had Blaustein scheduled to perform at the Fox Theater in Oakland on September 11, the day before the Channel 24 appearance, also under the title "The Taste Me Tour: The Final Leg". After Sacramento, the schedule moves toward Denver, where multiple dates at Comedy Works are listed for the period from September 17 to 19. Ticketmaster then lists Peoria, Illinois, on September 25 and Saint Louis on September 26, while the tour continues in October through cities such as Boston, Tysons in Virginia, and Raleigh in North Carolina. In November, the announced stops include Reno, San Diego, San Antonio, and Dallas, while sales schedules also show December dates, including Ann Arbor and Toronto.
Such a schedule confirms that the phrase "final leg" describes the last major phase of the tour, rather than just one weekend or several California shows. For the Sacramento audience on September 12, however, it was an opportunity to see the current set at a time when Blaustein is once again taking it through a large series of venues. Official promotional materials present the tour as the final opportunity to see that set live before it is retired from his regular program. Because stand-up comedians generally change material between major touring cycles, the final-leg designation also has a programming significance: the audience sees a version of the show that was developed and performed during the previous part of the tour. The organizers have not published a full transcript or detailed contents of the set, so it would not be justified to attribute specific topics or jokes to the performance in advance when they have not been officially confirmed.
More than 70,000 tickets sold during 2025
Blaustein enters the final leg of "Taste Me" after a year of strong ticket-sales growth. According to the biographical text published alongside the event by Channel 24 and Another Planet Entertainment, the comedian sold more than 70,000 tickets during his 2025 touring year. The same promotional materials state that his stand-up clips on social media accumulated more than 900 million views. These figures come from the performer's promotional profile and are not presented as independently audited market data, but they are useful for understanding the scale of the audience Blaustein has built beyond traditional comedy clubs. The sold-out early Sacramento show and the addition of a late performance fit into this broader pattern of converting digital reach into ticket sales for live appearances.
For the contemporary stand-up scene, such a path is increasingly common: short video clips can open up an audience for a comedian far beyond the cities in which they regularly perform, while podcasts and long-form conversation formats maintain contact with the audience between tours. In Blaustein's case, both components are particularly visible. Promotional materials highlight viral clips as one of the main elements of his growth, while alongside touring he built an audience through the "Stiff Socks" podcast. Apple Podcasts confirms that the show's hosts are Michael Blaustein and Trevor Wallace and that the project launched in 2019. The platform continues to list it as an active stand-up podcast with regular new content, although the distribution model shifted during 2026 toward a larger share of subscriber-only episodes.
Organizers cite more than 70 million downloads of the "Stiff Socks" podcast alongside Blaustein's name, again as a promotional figure. Regardless of the exact methodology behind that total, the podcast is an important part of his public profile because it connects audiences with his work away from the stage as well. This is particularly relevant to the way comedy tours are built today: audiences often do not come solely from television exposure or the club circuit, but from a combination of social-media videos, podcasts, guest appearances, and direct communication with followers. In that sense, Sacramento is an example of a city where digital recognition translated into very tangible demand for a live performance.
Channel 24 is a new major venue on the Sacramento scene
The context of the venue itself is also important to the event. According to official Channel 24 information, the venue was established in 2025 by independent concert promoter Another Planet Entertainment, and its maximum capacity is listed as 2,150 visitors. The property is located at 1800 24th Street in Sacramento and includes a main hall, multiple bars, a VIP area, and an outdoor terrace. Channel 24 is the first venue that Another Planet Entertainment, according to its own description, completely conceived, designed, and built from the ground up. City of Sacramento documents from April 2025 also describe it as a new 2,150-capacity venue, with an opening then planned for April 24, 2025.
That capacity gives additional weight to the fact that Blaustein's earlier show was sold out, but the available data do not make it possible to automatically conclude that exactly 2,150 seats were on sale for the comedy configuration. Venue capacity can depend on the stage configuration, technical production, and audience arrangement, and organizers did not publicly release the final number of scanned tickets or attendees for this event. It is therefore more precise to state that the performance was officially marked as sold out, without turning the venue's nominal capacity into a claim about the exact number of spectators. Such a distinction is particularly important for multipurpose venues in which the audience layout changes depending on the type of program.
Channel 24 is located in central Sacramento, and management recommends that visitors use public transportation, ride-sharing, bicycles, or carpooling. According to venue information, the property is connected to Sacramento Regional Transit's Gold Line light rail service, with the nearest station located immediately next to the venue. Even before the venue opened, the City of Sacramento considered and adjusted parking rules on surrounding residential streets because of the expected impact of events attracting several thousand visitors. This shows that Channel 24 was conceived from the outset as a venue capable of bringing larger waves of visitors into the neighborhood, and the sold-out stand-up show fits its role as a new major event destination in the city.
Why the additional show matters to the overall picture of the tour
One sold-out show by itself does not tell the whole story about a tour's commercial strength, but the combination of a sold-out early performance and a subsequently added second show provides a more concrete signal. The organizer did not simply close sales for the first show but attempted to redirect demand into another performance on the same evening. This is a model often used when a performer can technically and programmatically stage two performances in one day and interest in the originally scheduled show exceeds the available supply. In Sacramento, the starts were two and a half hours apart, allowing for separate audience entries and two distinct performances. The official website explicitly marked the late show as a performance added due to demand.
For Blaustein, this is useful confirmation that the final phase of "Taste Me" is not based solely on the results of the previous year. In the promotional biography, organizers point to more than 70,000 tickets sold during 2025, but sales in the new cycle must be proven city by city. Sacramento was one of the early stops on the autumn 2026 run, immediately after Oakland and before a series of dates in Denver. The first show's sellout therefore comes at a moment when the tour is accelerating again and moving into a dense schedule that continues across multiple U.S. states.
At the same time, the schedule shows that Blaustein performs in very different types of venues, from comedy clubs with multiple showtimes to theaters and larger concert halls. This allows the comedian to adapt to different markets: in some places, demand is distributed across two or more performances, while elsewhere it is concentrated into a single larger show. Sacramento ended up in the first group because the second show was added on the same day. Such flexibility is important for stand-up tours that rely on local demand and can quickly expand the number of performances when sales for the first show indicate that an additional audience exists.
"Taste Me" remains on the schedule through the end of the year
Although Sacramento is now behind the tour, "The Taste Me Tour: The Final Leg" continues after September 12. Ticketmaster's current event listings show a series of upcoming dates throughout September, October, November, and December 2026. Among the larger announced stops are Capital One Hall in the Tysons area of Virginia on October 16, Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh on October 18, Balboa Theatre in San Diego on November 8, and Majestic Theatre in Dallas on November 13. The same sales listings also show two Toronto dates on December 5, demonstrating that the final leg extends beyond the United States. The schedule is subject to change, so the final number of performances should be followed through official ticket-sales and organizer channels.
Sacramento's result nevertheless remains clear: the first of Blaustein's two performances on September 12 was officially sold out, while the second was introduced in response to demand. For a comedian who, according to organizers, sold more than 70,000 tickets in 2025, this is a continuation of the strong-sales trend, but also confirmation that "Taste Me" still has an audience in the final phase of its life cycle. For Channel 24, a new venue opened in 2025, the event is another example of programming that uses the space beyond the traditional concert format. And for the stand-up market, the broader message is simple: an audience built through social media and a podcast can, when there is a sufficiently strong connection with the performer, translate into sold-out venues and additional tour dates.
Sources:
- Channel 24 - official page for Michael Blaustein's early Sacramento show, date, schedule, and sold-out designation (link)
- Channel 24 - official page for the late show, confirmation that it was added due to demand and schedule (link)
- Another Planet Entertainment - promotional tour description and information about Blaustein's ticket sales, social-media reach, and podcast (link)
- Ticketmaster - ticket-sale information, per-buyer limit, and Sacramento performance schedule (link)
- Ticketmaster - current list of Blaustein's dates on the final leg of the tour during autumn and winter 2026 (link)
- Apple Podcasts - confirmation of the hosts, period of activity, and current status of the "Stiff Socks" podcast (link)
- Channel 24 - official information about the venue, capacity, location, and amenities (link)
- City of Sacramento - city document about Channel 24, its capacity, and planned opening in April 2025 (link)
- Channel 24 - directions, transportation recommendations, and information about Gold Line access to the venue (link)