Comedian Shane Gillis Coming to the BMO Center

Friday, June 14, 2024 at 8:00PM

Pre-sale Tickets Start on Thursday, February 22 at 10:00AM – 10:00PM

On Sale Tickets Start on Friday, February 23, 2024 at 10:00AM

Rockford, IL (February 20, 2024) – Shane Gillis is a stand-up comic, actor, and writer from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. After winning Philly’s Funniest at Helium Comedy Club in 2016 Shane was named an “Up-Next” Comic at Comedy Central’s 2019 Clusterfest in San Francisco and a “New Face” at the prestigious Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. In 2021, Gillis released his debut comedy special Shane Gillis: Live in Austin on YouTube which has been viewed over 14 million times. Gillis is one-half of Patreon and Apple’s top 10 podcasts Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast. He’s a regular guest on Sirius XM’s The Bonfire, Spotify’s The Joe Rogan Experience, and Barstool Sports KFC Radio. Shane was a writer on Comedy Central’s Delco Proper and co-created, wrote, and starred in the YouTube hit sketch series Gilly & Keeves. In October of 2022, Shane and John McKeever partnered with Booklight Entertainment and Outback Presents to produce and release Gilly & Keeves: The Special on GillyandKeeves.tv. Shane can be seen playing ‘Gilly’ in Peacock’s Bupkis opposite Pete Davidson, Joe Pesci, and Edie Falco or in his newly released Netflix special Beautiful Dogs.

Pre-sale tickets start on Thursday, February 22 at 10:00AM – 10:00PM. On sale tickets start on Friday, February 23, 2024 at 10:00AM. Tickets will be available for purchase online at Ticketmaster.com, by calling 815-968-5222, or in-person at the BMO Center box office (M-F, 10:00AM-5:00PM) or the Coronado Theatre (M-F, 12:00PM-4:00PM). For more information, please visit thebmocenter.com/events/shane-gillis.

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