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Kill Tony Godfrey, Rick Ingraham

📅 May 18, 2015 📍 Los Angeles, CA Comedy Store Belly Room 🎤 8 comedians ⭐ 2 regulars

Guests: Godfrey · Rick Ingraham

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Lineup

1

Josh Frye

Set: Homeless newcomer to LA doing Mitch Hedberg-style observational humor about bus stations, heroin references, and his current living situation at a Greyhound station.

Interview: Tony and panel discuss Josh's homelessness by choice, his job history at a food co-op, his distinctive sad magician haircut, and his commitment to bizarre storytelling that mirrors his comedy style.

Bits:
  • Party at Greyhound bus station where he's staying, everyone sleeping waiting for buses
  • Found wallet from old lady at co-op job, now wears it on belt like magical case
Moments:
  • Panel notes Josh's energy is genuine despite unclear material, appreciates his commitment to the bit
  • Extended discussion of Josh's actual homelessness and 12-day stay in LA by choice
2

Tommy Godlove

Set: Half-Mexican, half-German comedian discusses being bilingual (American Sign Language with an accent), weight advice from friends, and his stretching/resistance routine.

Interview: Tony explores his joke premise about sign language with accent, discusses his work at a 76 gas station on Riverside, his one child named Angel, and his clothing style (jorts and basketball shorts).

Bits:
  • Half-Mexican, half-German makes him a Mexican 2.0; doesn't speak Spanish but speaks ASL with accent
  • Friend tells him to stretch and do resistance training; he does it every morning putting on shirt
Moments:
  • Panel criticizes joke structure and asks him to demonstrate ASL accent concept, acknowledging it's dumb
  • Godfrey offers actual constructive feedback about committing more to material rather than skipping jokes
3

Jud Zumwalt

Set: Observational humor about recent return to LA, getting punched at DMV by Mexican kids, unusual birthday candle hygiene concerns, and blowing wishes on other people's food.

Interview: Panel discusses his extensive hair (3 years growing), his attractiveness, his charisma with women, his background from North Carolina, and his resemblance to grunge musicians.

Bits:
  • Mexican kids at DMV punched him in penis; another coughed into his hand
  • Birthday candles on food is gross; people eat that food people just blew on
Moments:
  • Panel extensively praises his charisma and attractiveness, with Godfrey making Chris D'Elia suicide joke about his hair
  • Josh Martin (producer) receives text suggesting he's single, implying he broke girlfriends' hearts backstage
4

Al Bahmani

Set: Character-driven comedy about childhood confusion between scabies and wealth, pinata parties as metaphor for drug use, and creepy implications of encouraging violence for candy.

Interview: Tony and panel discuss his 13 years of comedy experience, recent move to LA from Houston apartment ($550/month), joining Death Squad show, and his vintage clothing style.

Bits:
  • Grandma said getting hands dirty gets money; realized she meant scabies, not wealth
  • Piñata parties tell kids to beat people for candy; applies to meth addict adults
Moments:
  • Rick notes Al commits to creepy character despite weak first joke, showing confidence in material
  • Panel praises his willingness to dress like a corpse and his 13-year comedy commitment
  • Al reveals he's lived in closet with other comics, comparing to Josh Frye's homelessness
5

Billy Bonnell

Set: Stereotype about hot girls being dumb explored through driving incident where ugly girl safely paused while attractive girl ran into traffic without looking.

Interview: Tony discusses Billy's 6-7 years of comedy, living in walk-in closet with bathroom access, bringing a girl home (lost respect for her), and his professional comedy voice.

Bits:
  • Hot girls dumb, ugly girls smart because they try harder; saw it at beach crosswalk
Moments:
  • Billy reveals he brought girl back to closet once and lost respect for both of them
  • Tony notes Billy's confident voice and predicts he'll get guaranteed two-minute slots in future
6

David Nieker

Set: Celebrates four-and-a-half months of marijuana sobriety while experiencing depression and dreams again; also references recent Law & Order episode he appeared in shirtless.

Interview: Panel discusses his beard, quit smoking timeline, dreams returning, exercise routine (walking miles daily), and shirtless appearance in Law & Order softcore scene.

Bits:
  • Quit weed on January 1st, celebrating four-and-a-half months of abject depression
  • When you quit weed you get dreams again; his dreams are about scoring weed
Moments:
  • Lantern falls in audience during set, disrupting momentum; Tony notes it changed the course of performance
  • Panel discusses his appearance in nude Law & Order scene with assassin murder plot
  • Tony compares David's appearance to Saudi Prince character from Law & Order episode
7

Sara Weinshenk

Regular

Set: Thesaurus-focused observational comedy about nobody using reference books anymore, confusion about the word 'thesaurus' itself, and whether words appear in their own definition sources.

Interview: Tony and panel discuss Roget's thesaurus pronunciation (Ro-zhay), the decline of physical reference books, and Sarah's commitment to the joke despite initial misdirection.

Bits:
  • Thesaurus search result says 'did you mean 1982' because nobody uses them anymore
  • Wondered if word thesaurus is in the thesaurus and what it would say about itself
Moments:
  • Tony corrects pronunciation to Ro-zhay (French) instead of Ro-jay; Sarah commits to learning
  • Set didn't land well initially but Sarah stayed committed through the concept
8

Kim Congdon

Regular

Set: Self-deprecating material about sucking dick too soon in relationships, father abandonment issues, seeking online therapy with crashed webpage, and computer abandoning her for new family.

Interview: Panel discusses timing of sexual activity in dating, her poor oral sex skills, abandonment issues and their parallels to her comedy, and feedback on material structure.

Bits:
  • Bad at forcing boyfriends; sucks dick too soon and ruins potential relationships
  • Dad walked out when she was young but kept coming back to be fed
  • Sought online therapy for abandonment issues but webpage was unavailable; computer packed and left
Moments:
  • Rick notes she times material perfectly and knows what she's doing as performer
  • Panel discusses strategic timing of sexual activity in relationships and her material's logic
  • Godfrey notes her abandonment theme connects to her comedy and audience understanding