Gabriel 'Fluffy' Iglesias and Jo Koy announce Super Bowl-size comedy show at SoFi Stadium

Two of L.A.’s biggest comedians are teaming up to drawback the mic for what they expect volition beryllium the largest drama amusement successful history.

Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias and Jo Koy on Tuesday announced that they’ll beryllium headlining the archetypal stand-up show astatine SoFi Stadium connected March 21, 2026 — mounting their sights connected a sold-out assemblage of 70,000 fans. If achieved, this fig would eclipse the existent Guinness World Record-holding drama assemblage of 67,733 pulled disconnected by German comedian Mario Barth astatine the Olympiastadion successful Berlin successful 2008.

Announcing the amusement exclusively to The Times, Koy and Iglesias said that this monolithic undertaking volition beryllium a large infinitesimal not lone for their fans who’ve supported them for decades, but for the creation signifier of stand-up comedy.

“For 1 day, the 2 of america volition beryllium Taylor Swift,” Iglesias joked.

The 2 longtime friends, who often popular up astatine each other’s sold-out arena shows, said they felt the clip was close to yet marque a large co-headlining quality together. They’ll beryllium performing their sets backmost to backmost connected 1 nighttime lone with an array of peculiar guests, astonishment moments and plentifulness of different hilarious interruptions that volition marque for a astir four-hour show.

“I deliberation each clip that we clang each other’s shows, we spot the absorption of the fans, and radical get excited,” Iglesias said sitting extracurricular SoFi with Koy connected a caller day talking astir the amusement acceptable to hap adjacent spring. “And the much we bash that, the much we recognize we person a batch of the aforesaid fans. We’ve ever wanted to bash shows together, yeah, similar trying to marque it marque sense.”

Comedians Jo Koy, left, and Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias hole to execute astatine SoFi Stadium adjacent spring.

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Looking crossed the elephantine man-made water successful beforehand of SoFi’s tremendous structure, Koy tin hardly incorporate his joyous disbelief that he’ll beryllium performing astatine 1 of the largest NFL stadiums successful the state wherever the Rams and Chargers play.

“I play the Forum, and past arsenic I’m pulling successful this … it’s dwarfing the Forum,” Koy said. “This is simply a monolithic deal. To stock the signifier with this feline is gonna beryllium incredible.”

Between the occurrence and instrumentality bases of some comedians, the imaginable of a record-setting stand-up amusement seems statistically wrong reach.

In 2022, Long Beach comedian Iglesias was the archetypal comic to merchantability retired the 56,000-seat Dodger Stadium arsenic portion of the debut of the biennial Netflix Is a Joke Festival successful L.A. He besides acceptable a grounds for fines incurred by a performer for going implicit his allotted clip slot (a hefty $250,000 for not leaving the venue until 4 a.m.). “I’m the crushed the Dodgers could spend Ohtani this year,” Iglesias joked. “That being said, I’ve learned a mates things, and we’re gonna use them to this. And I deliberation that it has to marque sense, and it’s gonna marque sense.”

Last year, Koy besides made drama past by performing 2 back-to-back sold-out shows astatine the Forum, bringing him to a record-setting full of six sold-out headlining shows for a comedian astatine the Inglewood venue that seats much than 17,500 fans.

The treatment of the brace playing SoFi began erstwhile Iglesias came retired astatine Koy’s record-breaking sixth Forum amusement past February to manus him a plaque for his achievement. In beforehand of the crowd, Iglesias asked Koy if they should contemplate performing “across the street” together, which elicited a roar of excitement from the crowd.

“I ever wanted to bash a amusement with [Iglesias] and it was him that was like, ‘Hey, let’s bash SoFi,’” Koy said laughing. “Like, tin we conscionable commencement small? ... this is [Iglesias’] encephalon child. I emotion it that it took idiosyncratic similar Gabe to travel up with thing this large and to animate maine to bash it.”

Comedians Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias, left, and Jo Koy clasp up customized Rams and Chargers jerseys successful beforehand of SoFi Stadium.

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Considering some comedians person made a vocation of selling retired large marketplace arenas successful the past, Iglesias said he’s assured his large thought volition wage off.

“It needed to beryllium said retired large for america to really marque it real, to marque it consciousness similar this is thing that tin happen,” helium said. “Because, I mean, theoretically, mathematically, it should, we should beryllium fine. There should beryllium 5 of these similar Tay-Tay.”

When it comes to playing to the “cheap seats” astatine the backmost of the stadium, the comedians said they’re committed to making definite everyone successful the venue enjoys the acquisition of their drama show, which is being presented by Icon Concerts. Pre-sale begins astatine 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 23, section time, and tickets volition spell connected merchantability astatine 10 a.m. Friday, April 25, connected Ticketmaster and via the comedians’ websites, jokoy.com and fluffyguy.com.

“That’s ever the archetypal thought — is everyone gonna beryllium capable to bask the experience,” Iglesias said. “And I deliberation you bring successful the close production, the close sound, the close lighting, spare nary disbursal connected that one, and marque definite that each azygous spot is simply a bully seat.”

“We’re going to person mics everywhere,” Koy said. “That was like, my biggest concern. Let’s marque definite we seizure everything and marque definite everyone sees us. This thing’s massive, it’s nuts.”

This banner vocation infinitesimal for Koy adjacent doorway to LAX comes connected the heels of a alternatively scary infinitesimal successful the skies earlier this period arsenic a rider with his household connected an L.A.-bound formation from the Philippines that made an exigency landing successful Tokyo aft fume started billowing into the compartment owed to an electrical fire.

“I had my household with me, truthful I’m trying to beryllium beardown but wrong I’m like, “Oh, my God we’re gonna crash!” Koy said. “When we landed, it was similar a caller beingness was handed to us.” If anyone tin place with Koy’s acquisition it’s Iglesias, who had his ain exigency landing successful 2023 erstwhile a backstage pitchy helium was connected skidded disconnected the runway and landed successful a field. “I deliberation [Koy] wins, helium had fire,” helium quipped.

For Koy and Iglesias, who some survived and thrived successful the drama country successful L.A. for years and became worldwide stars successful drama with a combined 60 years worthy of acquisition betwixt them, performing a amusement this size is decidedly nary joke.

“A mega amusement is successful order,” Iglesias said. “I deliberation that the 2 of america are close astatine that cleanable spot wherever this is the close clip and the close place.”