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The Comedy Magic of Tim Smallwood — Ahern Hotel, Oct 11
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Heads up before you read on: this is a show promotion, not a review — nobody here has seen the Ahern production. Everything below comes from the venue’s and the performer’s own pages, checked on September 28, 2026.
One Sunday night this October, a magician who has been performing professionally since 1989 sets up his props in a 26-table showroom just off the Strip. Seats are $45.95 per person. Kids 12 and under get in free. And it’s happening exactly once.
The Comedy Magic of Tim Smallwood plays the Showroom at the Ahern Hotel on Sunday, October 11, 2026 — doors at 6:00 PM, show at 7:00 PM. No second date is listed. If you want to see this one, this is the night.
The show at a glance
| Show | The Comedy Magic of Tim Smallwood |
|---|---|
| Date | Sunday, October 11, 2026 (one night only) |
| Doors / showtime | 6:00 PM doors · 7:00 PM show (Las Vegas time) |
| Venue | The Showroom, Floor 2 — Ahern Hotel, 300 W Sahara Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89102 |
| Seats | From $45.95 per person, plus fees and tax at checkout |
| Kids | 12 and under free |
| Groups of 10+ | Call (725) 214-4800 or use the Ahern events inquiry form |
| Tickets | tickets.ahernhotel.com |
What you’ll see on stage
“Comedy magic” gets thrown around loosely in Vegas, but it means something specific here: the tricks exist to get laughs, not the other way around. Smallwood’s three-minute demo reel shows a prop-rich parlour act — numbered cards, a large metal bowl, a white box, physical comedy with a cane — and the part that matters most: he keeps pulling people out of the crowd. Two different volunteers appear in three minutes of footage. One handles a card while he plays the moment for laughs; another ends up on stage pointing across the room like the answer to the trick is hiding in the back.
The venue bills it as “comedy, magic, audience interaction, and family-friendly fun,” the poster says kid friendly and fun for all ages, and the material in the reel backs that up. This is a G-rated, multi-generational show — the kind you can honestly take a ten-year-old and a grandmother to on the same ticket.
Watch the reel for yourself:
Who is Tim Smallwood?
A working pro, which is the honest answer — and in Vegas that’s a compliment. Smallwood was born in Connecticut and raised in Las Vegas, caught the magic bug in a fifth-grade teacher’s magic club, and later trained under Gary Darwin, the Las Vegas magic legend who mentored a generation of local performers.
He has been performing professionally since 1989, with his own acts at the MGM Grand, the Venetian, the Wynn, the Riviera, the Sahara, Palace Station, New York-New York, the Gold Coast, the Dunes, and the Hilton. Since 2011 he has toured constantly — 34 states, sold-out runs in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and sold-out tours of the Philippines that turned into a residency there. The corporate résumé runs from Toyota of Japan to America West Airlines.
The credential the venue leads with, though, is the one people actually click on: he appeared in the Goo Goo Dolls’ music video for “Sympathy.”
One more piece of trivia from the file: for years, Smallwood has also worked a well-known Bill Clinton impersonation into his comedy — his shows have historically ended with what one podcast interviewer described as a patriotic finale as a magical Bill Clinton. Whether that bit is in the Ahern show, nobody is promising. Go see for yourself.
Taking the kids (it’s basically free)
The kids-free policy is the quiet best part of this booking. A family of four pays for two adults, not four seats, and the material is genuinely all-ages — no edgy illusion-show stunts that go over a child’s head. The date also lands in the run-up to Halloween, when a live magic show is about the easiest family outing in town to talk everyone into.
And if you’re the kind of person who starts planning your own Halloween set around this time of year, we wrote a whole guide to building a Halloween magic set that actually lands over on the DreamlandMagic blog.
The part where you might end up on stage
Here’s the honest warning, and it comes straight from the reel: if you sit close at a Tim Smallwood show, you may leave your chair. Participation is the engine of this act. If that sounds like fun rather than a threat, good — those are usually the people who end up with the best story from the night.
And if watching a pro work a room makes you want to have a moment of your own, that’s our department. A self-working trick is the fastest route — no sleight of hand to grind, just a routine you can actually finish learning. Our beginner’s guide to card magic covers the first week, and a few pocket-friendly places to start are Stop Light Cards ($4.99), the Vanishing Deck ($5.75), and the visual Zig Zag Card ($8.95). Browse the whole self-working collection if you want options that work right out of the box.
Getting there and getting in
The Ahern Hotel sits at 300 W Sahara Avenue, just off the Strip — a boutique property with no resort fee and free parking, which already puts it ahead of most Vegas show venues before a single card is produced. The Showroom is on Floor 2.
Seating is by table: twenty-six of them, mostly tables for four with a set of tables for two, all at the same $45.95-per-person price. The checkout adds fees, facility fee, tax, and a card-processing fee, so expect the final number at checkout to run a bit higher than the sticker — the venue doesn’t publish an all-in total. Booking for ten or more? Group sales is (725) 214-4800.
Book your table — Sunday, October 11, 2026 »
Show details and pricing verified against the Ahern Hotel event page and the live ticketing page on September 28, 2026, and from timsmallwoodcomedymagic.com. Ticket prices are subject to change; the all-in checkout total is set by the venue.