Aziz Ansari is hitting the road for a surprise series of “small pop up shows to work on new material” that will bring him to Orlando and St. Petersburg next month.

The standup comic and star of Netflix’s Master of None will appear at the Mahaffey Theater on Oct. 22 at 7 p.m., a night after he takes the stage at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, according to his website. Tickets, which are will-call only, are on sale at themahaffey.com for $35 to $65.

The surprise tour comes after Ansari showed up at the Comedy Cellar in New York on Sunday for an unannounced performance that some have labeled as the start of a “comeback” after Ansari’s brush with the #MeToo movement. He has also recently performed in Nashville and South Carolina.

The comic has mostly stayed out of the spotlight since January, when an anonymous, 23-year-old woman accused him of pressuring her for sex during a date. The woman’s account of that night that was published on babe.net.

Ansari later released a statement that said, “In September of last year, I met a woman at a party. We exchanged numbers. We texted back and forth and eventually went on a date. We went out to dinner, and afterward we ended up engaging in sexual activity, which by all indications was completely consensual. The next day, I got a text from her saying that although ‘it may have seemed okay,’ upon further reflection, she felt uncomfortable. It was true that everything did seem okay to me, so when I heard that it was not the case for her, I was surprised and concerned. I took her words to heart and responded privately after taking the time to process what she had said.”

According to the Mahaffey’s website, there will be a strict no phones or recording devices policy in place during the Oct. 22 show. “Upon arrival, all phones and smart watches will be secured in Yondr pouches that will be unlocked at the end of the show,” it reads. If needed, guests can leave the auditorium and access their phones in the lobby.

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