Comedian Shane Gillis has broken two Guinness World Records after his stand-up show at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on 17 July drew 73,946 attendees and sold 77,047 tickets. The former Saturday Night Live cast member, now one of America's most popular podcasters, took the title for largest audience for a comedian and set an entirely new record category for most tickets sold for a solo comedy show, with 54,000 having been the qualifying threshold.

Gillis's attendance record ends an 18-year reign held by German comic Mario Barth, who performed to 67,733 people at Berlin's Olympiastadion in July 2008. Other comedy records have shifted recently too: Naomi Watanabe set the female ticket-sales mark with 44,356 tickets at the Tokyo Dome in February, while endurance stand-up records have crept upward, from Benny Elbows' 40-hour set in Memphis in 2025 to Nigerian comic DeeOne's unconfirmed 52-hour marathon in Lagos. The article argues Gillis's stadium record will be far harder to beat, since it requires both extraordinary fame and a promoter willing to gamble on a solo stadium show.