JACKSONVILLE, FL (April 30, 2025) –– The Florida Theatre and AEG Presents are proud to announce Josh Johnson on Friday, November 7, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. at the historic Florida Theatre in downtown Jacksonville. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 2, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. Buy them at www.floridatheatre.com or the Florida Theatre Box Office at (904) 355-2787.
Josh Johnson is an Emmy-nominated writer, stand-up comedian, actor, and NAACP award-winner from Louisiana by way of Chicago. He was just named as the newest correspondent on Comedy Central’s Emmy & Peabody Award-winning program The Daily Show, where he was previously a writer for the past six years. Johnson is also a former writer and performer on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he made his late-night debut in 2017. In addition, he is Comedy Central’s “most watched comedian ever” with 40 million plus views to date across their platforms.
As a stand-up, Johnson headlines theaters, clubs, colleges, and festivals around the world. In 2015, he was named one of Comedy Central’s “Comic to Watch,” in 2016 a “New Face” at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, in 2018 the winner of the “New York's Funniest” competition at the New York Comedy Festival, and in 2021 he was named one of Variety’s “10 Comics to Watch”.
Comedy Central released Johnson’s first hour-long special #(Hashtag) in June 2021.
Johnson’s self-released comedy and music mixtape album Elusive was described by Vanyaland as “live stand-up observational humor with musical compositions. Both elements wade in and out of political and social waters between the two 'arcs' of the multi-genre epic.” Johnson also co-hosts the weekly podcast, The Josh Johnson Show (with fellow stand-up Logan Nielsen).
Johnson’s other credits include, CONAN (TBS), @Midnight, Kevin Hart's Hart of The City, The New Negroes, and This Week at The Comedy Cellar on Comedy Central and @fter Midnight on CBS.
Tickets go on sale May 2nd at noon. Buy them at www.floridatheatre.com or the Florida Theatre Box Office at (904) 355-2787. Given Johnson's popularity, tickets are expected to sell quickly. So don’t delay.
To learn more, visit https://www.joshjohnsoncomedy.com/.
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