Kill Tony Sal Vulcano, Theo Von
Guests: Sal Vulcano · Theo Von
Lineup
Jordan Eglseton
Set: Short, quick set (~34 seconds) about living in a studio apartment and wanting to feel like a rapper. Minimal material with brief premise and punchline structure.
Interview: Explored Ben's trolling hobby (calling companies and pranking customer service), his ancestry DNA results (8% African American, 10% Persian), and his Russian voice attempt. Discussion of his reserved personality and prank experiences in high school.
- Lives in one-bedroom, wants studio to feel like a rapper heading to the studio
- Tony questions whether Ben actually sleeps in a car's middle seat/compartment, escalating absurdity
- Ben reveals he put a profanity-laced graduation message on a college Jumbotron via hashtag
Set: Bio-comic about being 41, single, working at Olive Garden for years, and low standards for dating. Features crude jokes about Olive Garden customers and settling in life.
Interview: Revealed Brian is now a chemist making active pharmaceutical ingredients, recently diagnosed with lung cancer, works in Germany-based company. Extensive discussion of his recent hookup with an attractive woman at Ocean Beach; Tony and panel prodded for explicit details.
- Can't date women who slept with Olive Garden guy; it's embarrassing to take home to mom
- Beach living with drugs; hooked up with hottest girl ever walking to buy cigarettes at bar
- Brian reveals lung cancer diagnosis from a few months ago, nobody knows
- Panel grills Brian for explicit details about his Ocean Beach hookup for extended segment
- Sal compliments Brian's story and delivery as authentic life experience
Set: Jewish identity comedy about not being considered Jewish because her mom isn't Jewish (dad is). Dark joke about attending anti-white-supremacist rally where white supremacists called her slurs, validating her Jewish identity for the first time.
Interview: Ali explained the NYC anti-Trump rallies context, Tony criticized her Trump assassination joke as inappropriate. Discussion of her college avoidance and preference to focus on storytelling about personal life rather than news.
- People say she's not really Jewish because dad is; went to rally, white supremacists confirmed it
- Ali makes inappropriate Trump assassination joke; Tony stops her, saying it 'cannot become a thing'
- Ali completes her regular weekly 60-second set as established recurring performer
Set: Dark, morbid observational comedy about airplane safety. Criticized seatbelts as ineffective, jokes about charred remains and rescue workers, cell phone hold messages with honesty about understaffing and watching porn.
Interview: Will revealed it's his FIRST TIME ever doing stand-up, though he's wanted to for 20 years. Saw Seth Rogen at Vancouver open mic 20 years ago and told his now-wife he'd do it one day. Works in insurance sales training. Tony praised his comfort and offered him stage time at Ice House.
- Airlines should admit seatbelts won't save you in crash, helps match corpses to manifest
- Cell phone hold messages should admit to being understaffed and watching porn during peaks
- Will books stage time at Ice House based on first-ever stand-up set performance
- 48-year-old first-time stand-up comedian who has wanted to do it for 20 years finally does it
Set: Sex worker adjacent comedy about finding exes on mugshots.com; lost virginity to guy arrested for bestiality. Massage therapist jokes about not giving happy endings; priest with tennis elbow as a sign of trustworthiness.
Interview: Joy is a massage therapist for 10 years, doing comedy for 1 year. From Madera/Fresno area, lived in LA 13 years. Has a trucker boyfriend who works for the Navy. Discussed her unpublished romance novels and self-publishing next month.
- Lost virginity to guy later arrested for lewd acts with a cow on mugshots.com
- Not a happy endings masseuse, partly due to workers comp not covering tennis elbow
- Priests with tennis elbow bands are trustworthy because they can't have inappropriate contact
- Joy reveals her boyfriend works cryptically for the Navy; Tony and Theo make jokes about Area 51 and government testing
- Joy mentions she's self-publishing a romance novel next month; Sal notes she has 'big thumbs' for massage work
Set: Musical comedy duo (Zane and Chris) performing song from when Zane was 14 about not wanting to go to bed. Childish humor referencing babysitter dinner, Red Bull, GTA on PS2, Cinemax, Gravedigger 69, refusing to sleep.
Interview: Zane and Chris met 5 years ago; Chris is an editor for Ridiculousness in LA. Both have music projects around LA, shoot at offices in Glendale. Chris has a 6-year girlfriend from Oklahoma with no tattoos/piercings.
- Song: Got Dr Pepper, Red Bull, GTA on PS2, Cinemax, won't go to bed
- Musical performance welcomed as genuine novelty act; Tony immediately loved it as a song