Kill Tony Morgan Murphy, Annie Lederman
Guests: Morgan Murphy · Annie Lederman
Lineup
Ashton Womack
Set: Tonya performs about vaginal birth control rings, airport TSA machines, and the difference between creepy and romantic behavior. She includes a joke about writing names in blood on cars.
Interview: Discussed her five years in stand-up (mostly in Houston), previous job at Planned Parenthood where she was fired for being too casual with patients, and her boyfriend who also does comedy.
- Vaginal ring birth control surprise revealed to new sexual partners
- TSA X-ray machine seeing lost tampons is a privacy concern
- Creepy vs romantic only differs by mutual attraction, blood on car is romantic
- Morgan provides coaching on comedy structure, suggesting not two vagina jokes in succession unless committing to 45 minutes
- Annie and Morgan debate NuvaRing birth control experiences, Annie expresses strong negative opinion
- Tanya reveals skill at drawing blood, allows Morgan to inspect her veins on stage
George Greto
Set: Rich performs a set about a friend calling him a 'chicken queen' (pedophile terminology), denying he'd be gay, and closes with the phrase 'I would never be gay.'
Interview: Discussed being a 31-year-old graduate student studying genetics, married for five years, doesn't wear wedding ring on finger, and has a skill making mice fall asleep.
- Friend calls him chicken queen for being gay, disagrees with terminology choice
- Would never be gay, immediately contradicts by saying would try anything once
- Panel aggressively pursues whether Rich is secretly gay based on appearance and behavior
- Rich forgets word for 'mice,' struggles dramatically, nearly says word wrong multiple times
- Rich admits doesn't wear wedding ring on finger, says it tears up his hands weightlifting
Set: Michael performs rapid-fire joke punchlines about Beyoncé weight gain, dyslexic 69s, closeted gays, Sandy Hook school, a 'brothel' soup restaurant, and criticism of saying 'no homo.'
Interview: Previously performed at Kill Tony Austin show, works in a warehouse driving a forklift, married with red shoes.
- If Beyoncé gets fat, they'll call her Beyondree
- Dyslexic people doing 69 end up with butts on necks
- Restaurant and brothel hybrid 'brothel' serves only soup
- Tony compliments Michael's quick one-liners and killing it despite rapid-fire delivery
Set: Jake, performing his first time on stage while blind, jokes about his name, being blind with a lisp-joke setup, and waving a vape pen that looks like a gun in public.
Interview: First-time performer who is legally blind (hereditary degenerative retinal disorder since army service), listens to comedy podcasts, grew up memorizing Richard Pryor and other comedians, and received massive praise for performance.
- Name is 'Jake like Snake, Walker like Luke Skywalker' while being blind
- Quit smoking, started vaping vape pens that look like guns in public
- Black vape pen looks like gun, could get white guy shot by police
- Audience genuinely fears Jake has a gun when waving vape pen, visible panic
- Panel gives Jake extraordinary praise for first-time performance, calls it one of best debuts
- Jake reveals hereditary degenerative retinal disease, only one of four siblings affected
- Jake explains vision like looking through toilet paper roll tubes, can see five degrees