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 Set bombs heavily with outdated references and weak punchlines.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.