Kill Tony Kirk Fox, Tiffany Haddish
Guests: Kirk Fox · Tiffany Haddish
Lineup
Set: Tad describes attending a funeral where he had to hold hands with a woman with no hands/nubs during prayer, struggling with the awkwardness while trying to be respectful.
Interview: Tony and panel discuss the delivery and pacing of the joke, noting Tad rushes through the material too quickly and needs to slow down and develop the premise more clearly.
- Praying at funeral while holding hands with woman with no hands/nubs.
- Panel and Tony spend significant time coaching Tad on delivery and pacing, with Kirk and Tiffany offering detailed feedback about rushing through material.
Set: Keon makes a joke about Magic Johnson having a gay son and commending him for keeping the legacy of AIDS alive in the family.
Interview: Tony and panel discuss Keon's nervousness, encouraging him to look at the audience, breathe, and deliver with more confidence rather than rushing through jokes.
- Magic Johnson's gay son keeping AIDS legacy alive in the family.
- Extensive coaching segment where Tiffany compares Keon's nervousness to her first date with a white guy, panel emphasizes importance of eye contact and audience connection.
Set: Jacques discusses a young person not knowing NWA, connects Straight Outta Compton to both street culture and Black billionaire creation stories, critiques the film for not showing Dr. Dre's abuse.
Interview: Panel encourages Jacques to focus on comedy over lectures, notes his intelligence and delivery are strong but he needs to embed punchlines and jokes rather than giving TED talks.
- 20-year-old thinks NWA is the Fab Five, lacks knowledge of hip-hop history.
- Straight Outta Compton can be viewed as billionaire origin story like Steve Jobs.
- Kirk and Tiffany encourage Jacques to focus on being himself and developing a comedic persona rather than intellectual argumentation, noting his rebuttal skills are funny.
Set: Jordan jokes about having self-defeating personality disorder, regretting his father's death while at Starbucks, and never coming out as a bellhop after watching Mad Men.
Interview: Panel and Tony compliment the writing and premise, encouraging Jordan to slow down delivery, believe in his material, and project confidence in what he's saying.
- Father died while at Starbucks, wished he had Pike Place roast instead.
- Watched Mad Men, realized never coming out as a bellhop.
- Tony notes the Starbucks premise is hilarious and original, panel coaches Jordan on delivery speed and confidence.
Set: Jil discusses race using color metaphors (peach people vs cottage cheese), jokes about being fired from Chipotle for giving Black customers extra portions to help her people.
Interview: Panel compliments the clever race-based material and tight delivery, panel members discuss their own racial identity and perception, Tony notes she has strong comedic instincts.
- White people are peach/cottage cheese with attitude, not actually white.
- Fired from Chipotle for giving Black customers extra portions to help her people.
- Panel engages enthusiastically with Jil's race material, Tony jokes about picking up her show for season two.
Set: Dave does a set about looking like a rejected Bachelor contestant, Irish Catholic family with alcoholic-themed names (Jack and Jameson), mother delivering baby on rocks during hike.
Interview: Tony and panel discuss Dave's personal life, stunt work in films, relationship with Instagram model girlfriend, engagement history, and various side hustles including Lyft and background acting.
- Looks like rejected Bachelor contestant, Irish Catholic family, brothers named Jack and Jameson.
- Mother delivered baby on rocks during hiking when water broke at 7 months.
- Brother memorizes girl's names and searches them online instead of using phone numbers.
- Extended interview focusing on Dave's stunt work, girlfriend drama, and engagement situation, panel offers relationship advice about insecurity and Instagram.
Set: Melissa jokes about her stripper cousin named Britney who has a cowgirl up tattoo, claims baby was from rape but father has custody, and discusses her own 17th birthday cocaine offer.
Interview: Tony and panel compliment Melissa's writing and ownership of material, encourage her to pause for laughs, discuss her trip to San Pedro and dating experiences.
- Cousin is stripper named Britney with cowgirl up tattoo, responsibility feels like rape.
- Offered cocaine at party, said celebrating 17th birthday to avoid it.
- Tony praises Melissa's joke as his favorite of the night, notes she's owning her material and keeping it real about her trashy family.