There is a tradition of Texas storytelling that doesn’t live in concert halls or comedy clubs — it lives in whatever room has a man standing up to tell the truth about what happened to him, and doing it in a way that makes the people listening feel less alone. Ali Siddiq, Houston-born and Pearland-rooted, carries that tradition into the Majestic Theatre San Antonio on Friday, June 26, 2026, for two performances — 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM CT — as part of the Custom Fit Tour.
About Ali Siddiq
Siddiq walked into Just Joking comedy club in Houston in December 1997 and did his first set. What happened in the years between that night and the work you can find on YouTube today is a story he has told himself, in his own voice, on his own terms. He spent six years incarcerated at the Ruben M. Torres Unit in Hondo, Texas, and it was there — where storytelling functioned, in his telling, as survival, as currency, as community — that the voice you hear in his specials took its shape.
Vulture calls him “stand-up comedy’s most prolific storyteller.” The New York Times named him comedy’s “Best Storyteller” in 2023. His 2022 YouTube special The Domino Effect — which the Times described as “a genre-defying autobiographical epic” — ranked among the year’s top five most-watched comedy specials and accumulated more than 17 million views. The four-part series it launched has since crossed 45 million combined views. His most recent special, My Two Sons, won the 2026 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Variety – Series or Special, making it the first independently-produced stand-up comedy special to receive that distinction.
He has appeared on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam and Live from Gotham, made three appearances on Comedy Central’s This Is Not Happening, and is a regular presence on The Joe Rogan Experience, Club Shay Shay, Kill Tony, and 85 South. His bit “Mexicans Got On Boots,” from This Is Not Happening, has accumulated more than 16 million views and remains one of the most-circulated comedy clips of the past decade. He releases his work directly through YouTube, self-funded, by design — his stated philosophy being that he operates on his terms, not the industry’s.
The San Antonio date is second-to-last on the Custom Fit Tour’s 26-market national run, arriving after stops at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, the Orpheum in Memphis, and an arena performance in Baltimore earlier in the cycle. He closes the tour in Corpus Christi the following night.
About the Majestic Theatre
The Majestic Theatre San Antonio sits at 224 E Houston Street in downtown San Antonio — a 2,264-seat theater and one of the marquee houses in the San Antonio region. More information at majesticempire.com.
Tickets & Show Details
Two performances on Friday, June 26, 2026: 7:00 PM CT and 9:30 PM CT. Suggested for ages 16 and up. This is a phone-free experience — cellphones, smartwatches, cameras, and recording devices are not permitted. Bags exceeding 12″ × 6″ × 12″ and all backpacks are prohibited; diaper and medical bags are permitted.
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