Small empty stage with a stool and two warm floor wash lights either side, red-lit room

New Orleans, LA

Skankfest X 2026

13–15 November 2026

Skankfest X brings a long bill of stand-up comics to New Orleans from 13 to 15 November 2026, with Big Jay Oakerson, Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Tony Hinchcliffe and Doug Stanhope among well over a hundred names on its True Blood, New Blood and Bayou Blood line-ups. It is the second Skankfest in New Orleans, after three years in Vegas, and the Final Real Ass Podcast holds a talent show, with sign-ups at 1pm outside the Gas Digital Stage.

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You book on skankfest.com, the festival's own site. The Guide sells no tickets.

Tickets ↗You book on skankfest.com. The Guide sells no tickets.

The 2026 festival

The Skankfest X 2026 runs 3 days, from Friday 13 November 2026 to Sunday 15 November 2026, in New Orleans, LA. On its stages: stand-up. Tickets, times and the full programme are on the festival's own site. Comedy festivals in 2026, month by month.

What's on

The 2026 bill reaches past stand-up to the Palmer Squares, a Chicago hip-hop duo that has played every year since 2021, and to Kenny vs Spenny, the television pair from Canada, Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice, on their first Skankfest, as are Eric Andre, of Adult Swim's The Eric Andre Show, and Sal Vulcano, of TBS's Impractical Jokers. Jim Norton is back after 2022 and 2024. The sponsors are Yo Kratom, Larry Flynt's Hustler and Barely Legal Club, and vendors can buy a booth in its Vendor Village.

Its story

Luis J. Gomez, who hosts the Legion of Skanks podcast, co-founded both Skankfest and the GaS Digital Network, and Big Jay Oakerson co-hosts Legion of Skanks with him. The comics' pages on the festival's site list six editions: Skankfest South in 2021, Skankfest Vegas in 2022, Skankfest Return to Vegas in 2023, Skankfest Vegas Attacks in 2024, Skankfest New Orleans in 2025 and Skankfest X in 2026. Gomez and Oakerson have been on all six, as have Shane Gillis, Mark Normand and Tony Hinchcliffe.

Tickets

Passes are bought through the festival's own site, whose Get Tickets Now button sends buyers to an outside ticket seller for checkout. For the 2026 festival in New Orleans, 13 to 15 November, the three-day passes have sold out and single-day passes are still on sale. Three partner hotels near the Convention Center hold a festival room rate from $170 plus tax.

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Before you go

Each of the three partner hotels holds a 2026 room rate plus tax: the Hilton Garden Inn NOLA Convention Center, 1001 South Peters Street, at $170; the Hyatt Place NOLA Convention Center, 881 Convention Center Blvd, at $179; and the Hilton Riverside NOLA, Two Poydras Street, at $189. Space at those rates is limited. A sign-up for the Final Real Ass Podcast talent show brings priority seating, and its winner takes golden tickets.

For comedians: submissions

Not announced No call for acts for the 2026 festival on the festival's own site yet.

As of: 31 October 2026

Deadlines and fees change: the festival's own page has the last word. Every festival open for submissions

Questions

When is the Skankfest X 2026?

13–15 November 2026 in New Orleans, LA.

Where do I book for the Skankfest X?

On the festival's own site, skankfest.com, which also has the latest programme and any changes.

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