Dan Docimo’s first Toronto headline night just turned into two. Live Nation Ontario announced a late show has been added at the Paradise Theatre on Dec. 12, with tickets for the new performance on sale now.
The second set joins an earlier Dec. 12 date at the 276-capacity room at 1006 Bloor St. W., an all-ages engagement listed with doors an hour before showtime and a 90-minute runtime, according to the venue’s event page. Toronto is also the only Canadian stop on Docimo’s itinerary — Ticketmaster Canada lists no other shows north of the border, leaving the Bloor Street address as the lone chance for local audiences to catch the Chicago comic this cycle.
That scarcity explains the squeeze. Docimo’s wider routing runs almost entirely through U.S. rooms: Raleigh’s Goodnights Comedy Club for three nights in late August, the Spokane Comedy Club, Seattle’s Emerald City, San Francisco’s Cobb’s Comedy Club, and a New York Comedy Festival appearance that sold through a single-night slot last November. Adding a second Toronto show means roughly double the tickets available in a house that seats fewer than 300.
Docimo’s stock has climbed steadily since Time Out named them one of its 2025 Comics on the Rise. The Lincoln Lodge Prime Time cast member and producer-drummer behind the act Dumb and Drummer has worked the Limestone Comedy Festival, 10,000 Laughs, Altercation and Art Basel, and spent three nights opening for Louis C.K. at the Chicago Theatre.
Their stage persona is a specific one: deadpan, quietly surreal, heavy on tangents about things that confuse or frighten them. Docimo performs under they/them pronouns and has been open about navigating a non-binary identity in a straight-leaning comedy circuit, most recently on the podcast We’re Having Gay Sex.
The Paradise, a 1937 picture house on Bloor Street West, has operated as a cinema and live-performance venue since its restoration, making the Dec. 12 booking a rare stand-up date inside a room built for films. Tickets for both shows are on sale now.
One night was apparently never the plan. For a comic still best known in the States for opening slots, Toronto now gets a headliner twice in a single evening.
