Ellen DeGeneres abruptly cancels comedy tour dates with no reason given

Ellen DeGeneres has cancelled four of her upcoming comedy shows, as dozens of tickets remain unsold.

Ellen DeGeneres has cancelled four of her upcoming comedy shows, for reasons that remain unclear.

The Ellen’s Last Stand… Up Tour is the former TV host’s first major foray back into the limelight, two years after her eponymous talk show was cancelled amid toxic workplace allegations. According to DeGeneres’s Ticketmaster page, tour dates in Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle and Chicago have been cancelled.

“Unfortunately, the Event Organizer has had to cancel your event,” the Ticketmaster update reads.

DeGeneres has yet to make a public statement on why these shows were cancelled. Her team has also not provided any insight into the abrupt cancellations. The Dallas show that was cancelled was slated for July 10 and the Chicago show was planned for Aug. 11. Both these dates were the only shows arranged for these cities.

DeGeneres had planned to perform two nights each in San Francisco (July 20-21) and Seattle (July 22-23). For both of these cities, the second tour date has been axed.

The remaining San Francisco show appears to have dozens of tickets still available for purchase, as does the remaining Seattle date, suggesting that low ticket sales may be the reason for the cancellations.

There is only one Canadian show in the Ellen’s Last Stand… Up Tour, slated for Aug. 5 in Toronto’s Meridian Hall. The Toronto event is mostly sold out. The few remaining tickets cost about $330.

DeGeneres used to be a titan of daytime television with The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She fell from grace in 2020 after employees on the show came forward with allegations they faced racism, intimidation and sexual misconduct at the hands of top producers. Three producers were fired in the aftermath of the bombshell 2020 Buzzfeed News investigation, but The Ellen DeGeneres Show never recovered and ended after 19 seasons.