{"id":248156,"date":"2026-07-21T01:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248156\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T01:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:47:20","slug":"mechanicsburgs-shane-gillis-breaks-guinness-world-records-at-pennsylvania-comedy-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248156\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanicsburg\u2019s Shane Gillis breaks Guinness World Records at Pennsylvania comedy show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(WHTM)\u2013 Mechanicsburg native and popular comedian Shane Gillis smashed two Guinness World Records at a Pennsylvania show last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Philadelphia Eagles announced last Friday that Gillis broke both records at his sold-out show at Lincoln Financial Field on July 17. Gillis now holds the record for the largest audience for a comedian with 73,946 attendees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gillis also broke the record for the most tickets sold for a comedy show by a solo comedian, with 77,047\u00a0tickets sold, according to the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Tonight&#8217;s event was a powerful reminder that record-breaking achievements continue to capture people&#8217;s imagination around the world.&#8221; said\u00a0GUINNESS WORLDS RECORDS adjudicator Andy Glass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The performance at Lincoln Financial Field included Dave Chappelle,\u00a0Jay Oakerson,\u00a0Matt McMusker, and musical performances from Three 6 Mafia and Philadelphia native Meek Mill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Eagles said that Gillis has sold more than 1 million tickets throughout North America alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WHTM)\u2013 Mechanicsburg native and popular comedian Shane Gillis smashed two Guinness World Records at a Pennsylvania show last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[106043,34837,8625,28,30,29,4538,26718,4966],"class_list":["post-248156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-comedy-show","tag-guinness-world-records","tag-lincoln-financial-field","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-shane-gillis","tag-the-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}