Kill Tony Anthony Jeselnik, Ari Shaffir
Guests: Anthony Jeselnik · Ari Shaffir
Lineup
Set: Critiques feel-good commercials for overweight women, argues tape measures should say degrading things instead. Makes comparison about his own weight and Blake Griffin.
Interview: Discussed his name origin, where he's from (Alabama), and his background. Panel suggested he needs a solid bit about his last name.
- Special K commercials show tape measures saying beautiful/strong instead of degrading things.
- If Blake Griffin can say n-word about race, he can talk about fat people about weight.
- Ohio State scores during his set, Tony misses the comedy.
- Panel heavily suggests he must do material about his last name.
Jeremiah
Set: Rambling set about losing friends to blown-out assets and broken wallets, babies, and biological pressure to have children. Largely improvised and forgetful.
Interview: Revealed he worked on railroads as a conductor, first time doing comedy. Panel discussed his background and encouraged him to be himself rather than memorize.
- When friends have kids, biological game of dodgeball starts with the fat kid dodging baby questions.
- Revealed as first-time comedian doing stand-up for the first time ever.
- Panel coaches him to be himself and stop memorizing instead of performing naturally.
Set: One-liners about the war on drugs, Charlie Sheen, ants, Reagan acting as president. Set bombs heavily with outdated references and weak punchlines.
Interview: Revealed he worked in politics managing city council campaigns and claims he could've been in Congress. Panel aggressively mocked his material and attitude.
- Government losing war on drugs means Charlie Sheen is winning.
- Reagan acted like the president for eight years, now people rave about his performance.
- Jeselnik particularly hostile, focusing on the Reagan joke being old and stale.
- Mentions working for Jimmy Dore on political satire, audience skeptical.
Set: Extended riff on Waze navigation app, making jokes about police and traffic warnings. Largely padding with minimal actual jokes.
Interview: Discussed being mugged in West Hollywood in 2011 with tire iron, receiving 40 stitches. Explained his name comes from boxing/basketball reach and friend group SHP.
- Waze says watch out heavy traffic then good looking out ways.
- Waze warns police ahead, good looking out Waze when smoking weed.
- Panel critiques that Ways joke has been done before by multiple comics.
- Extended explanation of his multi-part stage name SHP as group/symbol.
Set: Dark one-liners about his father, Dick Cheney, and sexually abused women. Extremely dark material that doesn't land with the audience.
Interview: Revealed he's been doing comedy since 2002 from Riverside, owns a truck shop. Has performed locally but never made it nationally, frustrated with comedy store access.
- Impersonation of dad at age four: see ya.
- Dating molested women who learned oral sex early from uncles.
- Jeselnik questions if topics are actually funny or if he's just saying dark things.
- Johnny defensive about his 13-year career without major success.
- Johnny mentions driving two hours from Riverside to perform, very dedicated.
Set: Discusses not wanting babies, compares pregnancy to ordering pizza (guy injects, girl has to make/deliver). Lazy about motherhood, likes kids but not raising them.
Interview: From New York, transferred to LA for job, laid off fashion designer. Been doing comedy 3 years, panel suggests she dig deeper into her material.
- Guys inject pepperoni pizza, girls have to make/cook/deliver it and check Yelp reviews.
- Two people create creature and shoot it out of private parts, that's a miracle.
- Panel notes she has good premise but needs to find what's unique about her perspective.
Set: Girlfriend dumped him for another boyfriend as Christmas surprise. Father walked in on him taking a shit, boss walked in while fucking his dad.
Interview: Started in Buffalo, moved to Charleston SC for 3 years, arrived LA in April. Struggling financially, just had funeral for grandfather, job interview upcoming.
- Girlfriend introduced other boyfriend on Christmas as surprise.
- Dad walked in while taking shit, boss walked in while fucking dad.
- Panel impressed by his stage presence despite weak material.
Set: About gender inequality in dating: women called sluts for ignoring guys, men just called fathers. Jokes about equal rights but also wanting free dinner.
Interview: Dropped out of University of Florida to pursue comedy full-time after Kill Tony appearance. Does a new minute every week, writes at the last minute, very confident performer.
- Women ignoring men called sluts, men ignoring women just called fathers.
- Want equal rights and free dinner from men.
- Panel compliments her relaxed confidence from knowing she performs new material weekly.
Set: Bought lint roller at IKEA, questions who invented it, riffs on squeak of lint roller while sitting on couch. Discusses peeling off new sheets with hope.
Interview: Panel loves her observational style about lint rollers. Discussion about lint roller quality, using cheap vs expensive ones, evolution of technology.
- Who invented lint roller, someone put painter's tape on a stick.
- Loneliest part of weekend rolling lint off couch listening to squeaks.
- Panel highly complimentary of her observational style and performance.
Interview: First time on Kill Tony podcast. Discussed his early performance in Comedy Store class with Greg Dean, watched old tape and had panic attack. Mentioned huge Denis Leary influence early on.
- Recalled his first comedy class at Comedy Store and subsequent bombing.
Ari Shaffir
Interview: Regular Kill Tony guest. Discussed Ohio State football game, disliked Tony's team, rooted against Ohio State. Mentioned old Comedy Central special 'Paid Regular' with animated credits showing him smoking joint.
- Ari revealed he has a Comedy Central special dropping Friday midnight.
Set: Performed two songs: first song about worshipping Satan with dark humor and poetic references, second song changing mind and deciding Satan is weak.
Interview: Regular musical guest who performs new song each episode. Joked about his awkward stage transition and energy shift between performances.
- Pat performs two contrasting songs about Satan, changing his mind mid-set.