Kill Tony Steve Agee, Randy Sklar, Jason Sklar
Guests: Steve Agee · Randy Sklar · Jason Sklar
Lineup
Set: Comedy about working security on Hollywood Boulevard. Discusses how security workers can show up angry unlike McDonald's workers who must smile. Riffs on McDonald's nugget pricing and comparison to Wendy's.
Interview: Tony asks about specific security job details. Rasheed shares story about guy slipping him $200 after hitting a woman. Panel discusses his premise about payment scale matching attitude.
- Security is only job where you can show up angry and it's positive, unlike McDonald's.
- If McDonald's workers acted by pay, they should hand sandwich angry and hateful.
- 450 chicken nuggets with one sauce then charge extra 50 cents.
- 54-second set, panel asks for more security job specifics and backstory.
- Tony notes Rasheed as 'Rasheed Wallace of comedy' - positive comparison.
Set: Set about having a naturally sarcastic monotone voice people misinterpret. Discusses wanting to read eulogies with sarcasm and modern cremation practices.
Interview: Tony and panel discuss her sarcastic delivery versus actual monotone. Ali mentions moving to London in 3 months and asks about UK comedy scene.
- Monotone voice makes genuine compliments sound like I'm being a bitch.
- Want to read eulogies at funerals sounding like I'm mocking the dead person.
- It's 2015, why bury ourselves like vampires? Just cremate like normal people.
- Tony notes she's not actually monotone but naturally sarcastic.
- Ali mentions buying one-way ticket to London due to cheaper cost than round-trip.
Arturo H
Set: Set about attending 90-year-old grandmother's family reunion in Mexico with 93 relatives. After grandmother only nods and grunts, cousin reveals she has Parkinson's. Discusses open casket burials and family basketball game.
Interview: Tony discusses the comedic timing of the Parkinson's reveal. Panel talks about large family gatherings and dieting in Mexican culture. Arturo shares he's working at factory and studies.
- Grandma at 90th reunion only nods and grunts, then cousin mentions she has Parkinson's.
- Why are we burying ourselves like vampires in 2015? Cremate yourself like a normal person.
- Arturo nearly hyperventilates climbing on stage, Tony notes he was almost falling.
- Tony gives coaching on digging deeper into the family reunion premise.
Set: First-time performer discusses moving from New York to LA. Joke about discovering he's racist through Uber, specifically uncomfortable with Asian female drivers. References sports memorabilia money he blew through.
Interview: Tony questions his Asian woman driver bit and asks him to remove headphones. Discusses his previous online sports memorabilia business making money, then blowing it.
- Never thought I was racist until Uber showed me Asian women drivers.
- In New York car was convenient, in LA car is identity problem with Asian drivers.
- First-time performer on stage wears beats by Dre headphones, refuses to remove despite Tony's feedback.
- Tony pushes back on vague Asian woman joke, suggests exploring it deeper.
- Reveals he made money from online sports memorabilia business selling high-value items like jerseys.
Set: Israeli performer delivers rapid-fire one-liners about sales job, politeness misunderstandings, and observations. Jokes about boss asking about dessert, girlfriend and dress, kid asking for weed, and Jehovah's Witness family.
Interview: Tony asks about her background from Israel and Air Force service decoding. Panel discusses her unique phrasing and encourages exploring her perspective more in comedy.
- I stand in sales for attention, that's why I do stand-up comedy.
- Boss asked dessert, I said no I'm full, she said don't be polite, I said no stupid.
- 10-year-old kid asked me if I have weed on Hollywood Boulevard.
- Tony notes her unique phrasing on the weed joke as her best material.
- Reveals she served in Israeli Air Force as decoder, panel encourages her to explore this.
Set: Regular performer set about Florida visit with family. Stories about smoking weed with mom who gets paranoid, grandpa owing money, and roasting younger sister about softball and needing money.
Interview: Tony asks if grandpa really owes money (joke), discusses details about paranoid mom throwing weed away, and explores the mother-daughter bond during smoking.
- Mom paranoid about cop, considers hiding pipe in vagina, I say pipes won't stay.
- Roasted sister about playing softball in middle school, leading to high school women.
- Grandpa getting old and dying worries me because he still owes me money.
- Tony notes she brought purse on stage showing distrust of other comics.
- Kim mentions she usually says $50 in the joke but ad-libbed $36 for audience.
Set: Regular performer set about candy dots at grocery store. Riffs on how dots survive compared to skittles, references Hansel and Gretel, kids crying over dots like raisins, dots stuck to paper like New York after 9/11.
Interview: Tony gives coaching on structure, moving bits around for better pacing. Discusses the 9/11 reference placement and unpacking the dots premise further.
- Dots are second thing making kids cry after raisins on Halloween.
- Dots stuck together like New York after 9/11.
- Dots fully connected to paper, can't pull one off without getting paper.
- Tony suggests restructuring bit: keep dots opening, move Hansel/Gretel later, move 9/11 earlier.
- Ali Macofsky does impression of Sarah, prompting impromptu 'wine shank off' between them.