If you were fretting over missing out on Oscar-winning actor, comedian and singer Jamie Foxx’s comedy tour stops in the Bay Area, you just got another chance.
Organizers for Foxx’s comedy tour, which has sold out shows on April 16 and 17 at the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts in Oakland, have announced a third show — 8 p.m. April 18 at the same venue.
Tickets, at $112 to $195 (subject to change) are on sale now at Ticketmaster.
All three performances are part of a new comedy special Foxx is filming for Hulu (so of course if you yell really loud, maybe you’ll hear yourself on TV). Broadcast/streaming dates have not been released.
Foxx is best known these days as one of Hollywood’s top leading men, having won an best-actor Oscar for his portrayal of music legend Ray Charles in 2004’s “Ray,” and having been nominated for a supporting-actor Oscar for “Collateral” in the same year. He’s also starred in or appeared in such films as “Ali” (2001), “DreamGirls” (2006), “Miami Vice” (2006), “Django Unchained (2012)”; and he played Electro in “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” (2014) and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” (2021).
But his roots go deep in comedy (the performer who’s real name is Eric Marlon Bishop reportedly took his stage name in honor of Redd Foxx). He was a cast member of the hit sketch comedy TV show “In Living Color,” which he parlayed into co-creating, producing and starring in his own sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show, which aired from 1996-2001.
And, as organizers note, he competed in the Bay Area Black Comedy Competition 35 years — in the same venue he’s performing in this week.