Kill Tony #185 — Brody Stevens, Moshe Kasher
Guests: Brody Stevens · Moshe Kasher
Lineup
Set: Chevy opened with disability and disability-adjacent humor, including a joke about being denied entry to the Special Olympics due to a felony, and material about selling cocaine in Youngstown, Ohio.
Interview: Tony and the panel praised his authenticity and encouraged him to develop a TV show concept around his street life and cerebral palsy. Brody offered him a spot at the Ice House and promised to produce a script about him.
- Special Olympics denied him entry due to felony conviction
- Selling bags of cocaine as a handicapped person
- Got robbed first day trying to sell dope
- Tony praised the felony/Special Olympics joke as one of the funniest things he's seen
- Brody offered him a spot at the Ice House Friday spot
Set: Yusuf discussed the lack of dollar stores in LA compared to Cleveland, fake plastic wrap, and his work wiping elderly people's asses at a day health care center.
Interview: Tony and panel explored his job as an ass wiper, discussed pay and conditions, and ultimately suggested he should focus comedy material on the ass-wiping job rather than dollar stores.
- Dollar store in Cleveland spelled with diacritical mark
- Fake plastic wrap melted peas into individual Hungry Hippo pellets
- Job wiping grown men's asses, not enough baby wipes in world
- Applause break when discussing ass-wiping job, unusual for podcast
- Panel suggestion to abandon dollar store material and focus on ass-wiping
Set: Todd opened with Idaho potato/meth jokes, then discussed his mother comparing him to Matt Damon and being called 'Todd risen gay' as a kid.
Interview: Extensive interview covering his transition from improv and Second City cruise ship work to stand-up, his recent breakup, Mormon background, and increasingly explicit sexual topics including porn preferences.
- Idaho known for potatoes and methamphetamine cooking
- Mom thinks he's Matt Damon when seeing him on TV
- Childhood nickname 'Todd risen gay' not as funny as alternative
- Extended discussion about recent breakup after living together 6 months
- Extensive sexual discussion including caught masturbating four times, parents' reaction, porn preferences
- Brody gives extensive coaching about being the 'white guy' and needing more energy
Set: The triplets performed material about being ineffective as wingmen due to numbers, jealousy among themselves, and a brief joke about one of them being a homosexual.
Interview: Discussion of their construction job with their dad, living with parents, shared clothing, Italian heritage, and physical comparisons including nipple size.
- Three of them approaching women looks like March of Penguins/too much dick
- Jealousy because knowing if girl likes one, she likes them all (Amazon recommendation)
- Different stages of evolution: homoeractus, homo sapien, homosexual
- Moshe criticized the homosexual joke as weak punchline
- Discovery that one triplet has unusually large nipples with possible mass underneath
- Triplets thank Pat Reagan/Hitler character for destroying them last time, which helped them improve
Set: Vanessa performed dark material about white phosphorus chemical weapons used in Iraq and their birth defects, compared the imagery to Monsters Inc, and made a joke about suicide bombers needing talent.
Interview: Tony and panel suggested her Iraq/white phosphorus material is too dark without the context of being funny, and encouraged her to develop punchlines more carefully and explore different topics beyond current news.
- White phosphorus chemical weapon burns skin and causes birth defects
- Iraq aftermath compared to Monsters Inc headquarters
- Being a suicide bomber takes talent if born without arms
- Panel feedback that joke about serious subject needs stronger punchline or execution
- Tony suggests focusing on lighter topics and developing craft more carefully
Set: Ali performed about having a sex dream involving her father, awkward hugging, wet dreams about microwaved mac and cheese, and a callback punchline about eating mac and cheese off her dad's body.
Interview: Discussion of her 21-year-old age, Long Beach origin (562 area code), whether her mom watches the show, Tony's impression of Kurt Cobain, and her building a comedy streak.
- Had wet dream about microwaved mac and cheese, climaxed at timer
- Only likes mac and cheese eaten off her dad's body
- Won't hug dad after having sex dream about him
- Crowd eruption on mac and cheese body callback joke
- Tony notes she continues winning streak, called 'Bill Goldberg of standup comedy'
- Tony suggests she could add another layer to 'not you it's me' setup
Tam Pham
Set: Tam performed in an unusual format where Jeremiah Watkins mouthed/voiced the jokes while Tam performed physical comedy, covering Asian suicide rates, iPhone ownership, and a fetus-unlocking-phone joke about determining baby gender.
Interview: Discussion of the bit format, Tam's father being an animatronic, Vietnamese heritage, and continued physical comedy performance with Brody Stevens joining in commentary.
- Asian suicide rates low except iPhone factory workers
- Determines baby gender by inserting locked phone into vagina
- Doesn't care if Chinese people die because iPhone technology is cool
- Fetus-unlocking-iPhone joke receives extraordinary applause and praise from Tony
- Revealed that Jeremiah voices the bit while Tam performs it, ongoing callback bit
- Brody Stevens joins in analyzing the chemistry and bit structure