Kill Tony #170 — Stephen Kramer Glickman, Mike Lawrence
Guests: Stephen Kramer Glickman · Mike Lawrence
Lineup
Set: Kirsten discussed working as a waitress, her poor hygiene habits, stealing toilet paper, and a doctor encounter with blood on her underwear. She made self-deprecating jokes about being disgusting.
Interview: Tony and guests explored her lack of showering, dirty appearance, Jewish background, and hippie persona. She revealed her parents are middle-class and Republican, and she used to be a drummer.
- Uptight women ordering toast dry as euphemism for vagina
- Tips 20% but steals one roll of toilet paper per dollar tipped
- Doctor gets blood on her underwear; it was already there
- Kirsten performs a rim shot on drums with Joel Jimenez
- Panel makes Full House and Amish comparisons to her appearance
Set: Alexis joked about quitting her medical marijuana clinic job, trouble dating, stalking men while claiming it's nature hobby, and her mother calling her an accident (while being twins with her brother).
Interview: Tony discovered she quit/was fired from five jobs since moving to LA in March, including as PA, preschool worker, and nanny. She admitted to sleeping with a single dad employer while babysitting and coming from wealthy parents.
- Working at marijuana clinic depressing seeing 20-year-olds with glaucoma
- Tells men stalking is a nature hobby when caught hiding in bushes
- Mother said her planned brother was accident; they're twins
- Jeremiah Watkins mimics Alexis's speaking voice with exaggerated delivery
- Tony asks explicit details about baby proximity during sexual encounter with employer
- Alexis confesses attraction to Steven Kramer Glickman on panel
Set: Quinn discussed his cat's euthanasia, being reported to police for a kill list rumor in high school, and making dark jokes about school shootings. He ended with crowd approval.
Interview: Tony learned Quinn is a 25-year-old virgin photographer with autism spectrum disorder who carries a knife for safety. He works with the Ding-Dong Show and was kissed once on stage.
- Police searched backpack for kill list; thought he looked like that guy
- Not going through halls with AR-15 triple-tapping; would just kneecap people
- Panel repeatedly jokes about Quinn's Liberian dashiki shirt and autism
- Mike Lawrence suggests Quinn is uninteresting and makes Suicide Squad joke
- Tony offers to set Quinn up with Alexis Grossman from earlier bucket pull
- Intense panel discussion about Quinn's brutal honesty due to autism
Set: Darell made broad generalized statements about Black and white culture, referenced movies, discussed Santa Clarita being boring, and made jokes about coffee and Oreos referencing Morgan Freeman and Donald Sterling.
Interview: Tony and guests coached Darell extensively on authenticity, character consistency, and connecting with the audience. Darell discussed working in restaurants, a date at barbecue with an Indian woman from Fresno, and his love of basketball.
- Morgan Freeman called him Oreo in dream so it's true
- Donald Sterling racism analogy about not wanting Black people at games
- Rappers call everything their something; generalization about culture
- Panel criticizes set as rambling motivational speech with no punchline
- Extended coaching from Tony, Stephen Glickman, and Mike Lawrence on authenticity
- Darell calls out Black guy in audience to defend him, later makes questionable remarks
- Raw honest interview reveals real story about Fresno State girl and ear nibble kiss
- Panel discovers Darell's authentic passion is basketball, not his attempted stage persona
Set: Vanessa made a 55-second set about Muslim women being blamed for rape in court systems, comparing it to magical wizardry, and joked about not competing with magical powers in the Middle East.
Interview: Tony discussed her joke structure, asking her to clarify the wizard metaphor and suggesting she needed better research about burka terminology and cultural context for the material to work.
- Muslim women blamed for rape via seduction/vixen wizardry; women are wizards
- Won't go to Middle East; can't compete with magical women
- Vanessa asks audience to clap for rape concept, creating awkward moment
- Mike Lawrence admits he almost made stone-to-death joke before Vanessa did
- Tony suggests she needs deeper research on burka/hijab terminology and context
Interview: Stephen discussed his role in Big Time Rush on Nickelodeon and his new movie Stors with Andy Samberg and Jennifer Aniston coming out in four weeks. Panel and Tony bantered about his career and childhood TV restrictions.
- Stephen introduces new film credit for Stors during panel discussion
- Tony and Jeremiah react to band's Olympic speedo costume entrance
Interview: Mike arrived partway through the show wearing an Aladdin magic carpet outfit and made roasts of multiple bucket pull performers. He discussed roast battle judging and his upcoming fall tour.
- Mike makes Suicide Squad roast comparing Quinn to someone who enjoyed it
- Mike delivers rapid-fire roasts of Darell about authenticity and character consistency
- Mike notes all of his roasts during episode are landing as hits