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Kill Tony Dom Irrera, Steve Byrne

📅 January 5, 2015 📍 Los Angeles, CA Comedy Store Belly Room 🎤 8 comedians ⭐ 2 regulars

Guests: Dom Irrera · Steve Byrne

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Lineup

1

Chris Loeswick

Set: Chris discusses getting a new haircut to look professional while working as a server, waiting for his bald spot to grow in. He compares hospitality work to weddings and talks about saving for a house on server's wages.

Interview: Tony and the panel discuss Chris's haircut and his server job at the Ritz-Carlton. They explore his background, first-time performing, and his experience as a waiter.

Bits:
  • Getting a haircut to look professional while still waiting tables
  • Server wages make it hard to save for a house
Moments:
  • First-time comedian ever on Kill Tony with major guest panel (Dom Irrera, Steve Byrne)
  • Drove from San Francisco to perform
2

Haiti

Set: Haiti discusses his background from Haiti, a country people often confuse with Africa or a place in New Orleans. He talks about tourism and sending money back home.

Interview: Tony and panel ask about his accent, whether he goes back to Haiti, and how much money he sends home. Discussion of tourism in Caribbean islands.

Bits:
  • Haiti confused with Africa, Detroit, or New Orleans by Americans
  • Sends money home instead of visiting due to bad reputation
Moments:
  • Audience finds him hilarious, makes funny faces
3

Tommy Rico

Set: Tommy discusses his friends back in Washington who were shocked that Neil Patrick Harris is gay and plays a womanizer on TV. He talks about the gay community being the top 1% most attractive men and how being gay is genetic.

Interview: Panel asks about his pet turtle, his work at Guitar Center, and his Lyft/tour bus driving gig. Discussion of his timing and delivery.

Bits:
  • Neil Patrick Harris being gay and playing womanizer shocks friends
  • Gay community is top 1% most attractive men genetically
Moments:
  • Quit high-paying ad sales job to pursue comedy
  • Works as magician and Lyft driver with tour bus
5

David Bastard

Set: David does fast-paced observational material about finding nerf guns in a trash bin and a movie about MLK. He does impressions and rapid-fire observations about historical reenactments.

Interview: Panel discusses his all-caps style delivery, his background in acting and historical reenactments, and his job cutting cardboard boxes. Tony coaches him on becoming more personal in his material.

Bits:
  • Finding discarded nerf guns suggests parent discipline choices
  • Rapid historical commentary on MLK movie and race relations
Moments:
  • Dom identifies his material as impressionistic rather than jokes
  • Complimented on being well-dressed
6

Michael Perkinson

Set: Michael tells jokes about his career bouncing between venues like the Sydney Opera House and strip mall clubs, maintaining balance. He does a joke about someone defecating on his character.

Interview: Panel discusses his comedic style and career ups and downs. Brief discussion of his sandals and appearance.

Bits:
  • Career balance between Sydney Opera House and strip mall clubs
7

Kim Congdon

Regular

Set: Kim jokes about getting on birth control as a Puerto Rican woman, doing stand-up in Florida for the first time, and telling jokes in front of her grandma. She discusses her mom's concerns and jokes about Facebook and family.

Interview: Tony discusses her bombing in front of family, her mom's public Twitter complaints, her grandpa's drunken interruption during an anal sex joke, and her mom producing a sold-out 140-person hometown show requiring 25 minutes of material.

Bits:
  • Puerto Rican women need birth control; guys can come near
  • Can't tell if Facebook crush is cousin or not
Moments:
  • Bombed in front of entire hometown; mom produced sold-out 140-person show
  • Drunk grandpa interrupted her anal sex joke mid-set
  • Dropped out of college after Kill Tony appearance
8

Sara Weinshenk

Regular

Set: Sara rants about generic fruit salads served everywhere in Styrofoam cups with identical pieces of pale cantaloupe, watermelon, and one red grape. She discusses how better fruit salads might make fruit more appealing.

Interview: Panel discusses her style of ranting about mundane topics and how she builds premises slowly. Discussion of fruit quality and her comedic wheelhouse.

Bits:
  • Generic fruit salads everywhere contain same boring fruit pieces
  • Better fruit salads would make people eat more fruit
Moments:
  • Dom notes she's taking something small and ranting about it, her wheelhouse