Kill Tony Jason Gillearn, Benji Aflalo
Guests: Jason Gillearn · Benji Aflalo
Lineup
Set: Discusses confidence and faking it, explores death and mortality through the lens of which friends will die first, expresses dark hopes about his own demise.
Interview: Tony and panel discover Mike was breathing heavily at bottom of stairs, explore his job answering phones for appliance companies, discuss his swing dancing hobby and dating life.
- Fake it till you make it advice leads to just taking himself on a movie date.
- Hopes friends die before him so he can mourn them properly.
- Gets a boner while swing dancing in Balboa (slow swing dance style).
- Mike dances with a female volunteer from audience, gets a brief spin/dip.
- Panel and Tony coach Mike on his swing dancing material and suggest it as a strong comedic angle.
- Mike breathes heavily throughout interview, becomes comedic point of focus.
Set: Tells absurdist story about getting a job stirring pudding at a factory, escalates by bringing 80 friends to stir together, gets called out by boss as gangster.
Interview: Tony learns Jonathan is from San Fernando Valley, lives with grandparents, his grandfather recently passed, works as a petitioner, explores his mixed ethnic heritage (Jewish, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.).
- Gets job stirring factory pudding, brings 80 friends to stir together, boss asks why.
- Admits masturbation is his second favorite thing to do after stand-up.
- Jonathan flexes with comedic timing on 'gangster' punchline, gets big laugh.
- Panel coaches Jonathan to drop joke setup nonsense and focus on real personal material.
- Jonathan proudly shows cum stain on his shirt during interview.
Set: Opens with self-deprecating material about being Mexican, having lost Spanish language, taller than parents, now only interested in white girls and Starbucks, still fertile and loves smell of fresh-cut grass.
Interview: Tony and panel praise Victor's high-energy delivery and self-roast strategy, learn he's been doing stand-up 4 years total (3 in Dallas, 1 in LA), discuss his dating life and current job as Uber driver.
- People think he's lesbian/transgender until realizing he's just a tall Mexican.
- Lost Spanish as child by hanging with white girls, now only likes white girls and Starbucks.
- Picked up white girl named Samantha doing cocaine bump off iPhone in Uber pool.
- Victor pre-emptively self-roasts to take away all panel's prepared jokes.
- Panel compliments his command of stage and comedic timing throughout set.
Set: Recently quit retail job at movie theater, discusses movie theater prices, living with mother, hasn't had sex in 2 years, compares self to broke Kenan Thompson.
Interview: Tony learns Alan just moved from Detroit to LA to pursue comedy full-time, living on friend's couch in Burbank Valley, working open mics, very motivated and energetic about comedy career.
- Quit movie theater job, mother caught him masturbating asking if he was sad.
- Haven't had sex in two years, looks like a broke Kenan Thompson.
- Alan pulls out phone and plays gunshot sound effect, panels treats it as comedic moment.
- Panel encourages Alan's trajectory and predicts success with his hunger and energy.
- Tony mentions Alan's brother Donny Hinchcliffe sitting in audience.
Set: Opens with confusing repeated joke about 14 courts of semen, minimal structure, gets largely confused reactions from panel.
Interview: Tony learns Dennis was in psych ward 10 years ago for 72-hour hold, has 14-year-old daughter, quit comedy for years but is making comeback, discusses mental illness and difficulty of stand-up.
- Rambling joke about 14 courts of semen/come, unclear punchline or structure.
- Dennis performs classic Jeopardy bit about Black people on game shows, Tony notes it would be offensive today.
- Panel and Tony struggle to understand Dennis's central joke, try to redirect him.
- Tony acknowledges Dennis as longtime comedy store regular with history.
Set: Recently returned from three-week trip to London, Paris, and Germany. Discusses watching a riot in London with no guns (making it happy), jokes about Jewish/German meetings, noticed British toilet has two holes.
Interview: Tony learns Ali went to London/Paris/Germany, did shows, met an American boy (not cool), ate Chipotle abroad, discusses European toilets with dual holes for front/back water spray.
- London riots are happier without guns, everyone too drunk to care about loss.
- Jewish/German meetings are awkward, Jewish people always worried about big deal.
- European toilets have water coming from front and back simultaneously.
- Ali describes dual-hole European toilet in graphic detail, panel riffs on absurdity.
- Panel jokes Ali travels to different countries but still eats Chipotle and picks up American boys.