For better or worse, Anthony Jeselnik has continued to make it his life’s work to bring waves of cringes and gasps to crowds all over the world. As luck would have it, the city of Boston isn’t making it out of 2023 without getting a fresh dose of darkness from the man himself.
As announced this week, the Pittsburgh native is bringing his latest show, Bones and All, to theaters all over the country this year, including a stop at The Wilbur on December 9. While it won’t be his first swing at the famed venue, it’s been a few years since Jeselnik last visited the city, and since then, he’s released a Netflix special, Fire In The Maternity Ward, and hosted a talk show on Comedy Central in 2019, Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik. He can currently be hard as the co-host of The Jeselnik & Rosenthal Vanity Project podcast, alongside NFL Network analyst Gregg Rosenthal.
Also returning to The Wilbur after a few years are one-man show machine and internationally-acclaimed comedian Daniel Sloss, who brings his latest show, Can’t, to Boston on October 7. Most recently, he released the latest of his critically-acclaimed one-man shows, SOCIO, on his website in December 2022. But the fun doesn’t end there, as 2 Dope Queens co-host Phoebe Robinson brings her Messy AF tour to town on October 27. In addition to her third book, Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes, hitting shelves in 2021, Robinson also released her first special, Sorry, Harriet Tubman on HBO that same year, before creating and starring in her own TV series, Everything’s Trash, on Freeform in 2022.
What’s even more exciting than returning star power is when a comic makes their Wilbur debut, and such will be the case for three more hard-grinding comedy killersthroughout the rest of the year. First, biochemist and comedian Joe Wong takes the stage on May 25, returning to Boston after starting his stand-up career in the city in the early 2000s. Since those days, Wong has gone on to perform on The Late Show with David Letterman and later the Stephen Colbert-led edition of the show, as well as hosting television shows in Beijing, like Is It True? on China Central Television.
Secondly, Esther Povitsky comes to town on September 30 for a night at The Wilbur. Aside from her stand-up shows that continue to garner audiences all over the country, the Chicago native released her debut special, Hot For My Name in 2020, and has since starred in the Hulu series Dollface alongside Kat Dennings, and also hosts the My Pleasure podcast, as well as serving as co-host on the Trash Tuesday podcast alongside Annie Lederman and Khalyla Kuhn.
Also making his Wilbur debut in 2023 is Michael Blaustein, who comes through for one night on October 21. In addition to his stand-up, Blaustein is also the co-host of the Stiff Socks podcast alongside fellow comedian Trevor Wallace.
Additionally, Matteo Lane will be sticking around for at least one more night when he makes his way to The Wilbur, with a newly added 7:30 p.m. show on November 16 to kick off what quickly became a fully sold-out weekend for him already.
Tickets for these shows can be accessed now via pre-sale by using the code VANYA, before they go on sale to the general public on Friday (April 7) at noon ET, with the exception of the Jeselnik and Robinson shows, which go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. ET.