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📅 October 30, 2017 📍 Los Angeles, CA Comedy Store Main Room 🎤 9 comedians

Guests: Doug Benson

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Lineup

1

Fanto

Set: Fanto jokes about Facebook stressing him out more than real-life problems. He discusses an aunt posting a viral video of a tiger attacking an Asian woman driver.

Interview: Tony and panel learn Fanto is a Lyft driver and substitute teacher who was allegedly involved in a college stabbing. Discussion about writing sober vs. high and teaching high school students.

Bits:
  • Facebook competition about posting awful content before lunch
  • Tiger doesn't use blinker jokes about Asian female drivers
Moments:
  • Tony immediately notes the set got dark quickly with tiger mauling joke
2

Kevin Mack

Set: Kevin discusses growing up as the only white kid in a black Detroit neighborhood with a Native American mother from a reservation. He jokes about his black friends' confusion over 'reservation' terminology.

Interview: Extensive interview about Kevin's Instagram modeling persona, his controversial hashtags (#man #model #hotboy #kingcandy), a Lifetime movie role where he gets killed, and recent sexual encounters via Tinder.

Bits:
  • Growing up only white kid in black neighborhood metaphor
  • Black friends confuse 'reservation' with restaurant reservations
Moments:
  • Tony reads Kevin's absurdly long Instagram hashtag list from a single shirtless photo
  • Kevin admits to shooting deer after filming sex scene, causing gay followers backlash
3

Afrodyete

Set: 62-year-old Aphrodite performs about her breasts literally choking her at night and having to call police. Discusses how men don't have similar physical issues and makes commentary on aging female bodies.

Interview: Discussion about her actual experience calling police on her breasts, sleeping positions, upcoming New Year's performance with a band, and candy preferences.

Bits:
  • Own titties tried to kill me by choking me last night
  • Men don't worry about dick falling in face while sleeping
  • If your dick falls in your face while sleeping, you're gay
Moments:
  • Tony asks if police actually arrived to help with her choking breasts
4

Drake Nelson

Set: Drake discusses being confused with rapper Drake, jokes about complimenting a homeless man's appearance. Includes a zoo joke about his niece being called a 'maniac' and avoidance of cowboys.

Interview: Tony and panel discuss Drake being a Lyft driver from Reno, Nevada with a video production degree. Extensive jokes about his appearance, eating habits, and observations of LA homeless people.

Bits:
  • Homeless man compliments my appearance, assumes I have money
  • Zoo employee asks if niece is a maniac when I say one adult one maniac
Moments:
  • Doug sleeps through most of Drake's set while sitting on stage
  • Tony criticizes Drake's homeless walking joke as old material
5

Elliot Havens

Set: Elliot observes homeless wearing skinny jeans as trend indicator. Makes jokes about dentists detecting semen on teeth, dentists with teenage daughters, and bumper stickers being unnecessary.

Interview: Discussion about Elliot being from Seattle, moving to LA in October, working for a sock company in accounts receivable, and his questionable sweater.

Bits:
  • Homeless wearing skinny jeans means trend is over
  • Dentists can tell if semen was on your teeth
  • Don't need bumper stickers to know strangers' political opinions
Moments:
  • Tony invites Elliot to sit in a chair on stage so audience can watch him sleep
  • Doug Benson sleeps through entire set while Elliot performs
6

Ali Macofsky

Set: Ali discusses spider infestations in her house and learning about murderers' families always saying the killer was harmless. She jokes about post-partum depression while never having had a baby and North Korea's missiles.

Interview: Tony learns Ali owns a house with three roommates in LA, discusses spider killing reluctance, and receives jokes from panel members.

Bits:
  • Murderer documentaries always have family saying 'he couldn't hurt a fly'
  • Excited by North Korea missile news because of her depression
Moments:
  • Ali mentions meeting a Kill Tony fan at a music festival and thanks them on air
7

Caleb Walton

Set: Caleb, peer-pressured into performing after sitting asleep on stage, makes a Tinder joke about wishing for a 'super dislike' button so girls know he hates them all. Set is brief and awkward.

Interview: Caleb reveals he's 23, been listening to Kill Tony for 3-4 years, never done stand-up before, and was genuinely trying not to fall asleep. Panel offers coaching on delivery and Tinder strategy.

Bits:
  • Tinder super like button without super dislike so girls know I hate them
Moments:
  • Tony brings Caleb from audience to sit in chair on stage, watches him nearly fall asleep
  • Kevin Mack gives Tinder dating advice to Caleb after his set
  • Jeremiah reveals he once gave sleeping Caleb a probiotic thinking it was MDMA as a prank
8

Nick Caradoyonas

Set: Nick performs stoned wrestling observations, imagining what happens when wrestlers have midlife crises. Includes an extended character bit about a wrestler ('Omega champion') going to college to get a degree.

Interview: Nick has been doing stand-up for a little over a year, works as a waiter at Yarn House, does location audio/sound work, watches wrestling obsessively via multiple platforms and podcasts.

Bits:
  • Wrestler having midlife crisis goes to college to write papers
  • Blender dating app for people who like blended drinks
Moments:
  • Nick does Randy Savage impressions and wrestling character bits on stage
  • Nick and Chroma Chris have a bass off/guitar solo competition
  • Tony criticizes Nick for being overly enthusiastic about wrestling despite not taking it seriously

Interview: Doug is introduced as a frequent guest (10 times in 4 years, 5 months). Tony offers him a nickname 'Vlad the Inhaler' related to pot smoking. Doug participates in panel comedy throughout the episode and falls asleep during Elliot Havens' set.

Moments:
  • Doug sleeps through multiple comedians' sets while sitting on the panel
  • Tony offers Doug the nickname 'Vlad the Inhaler' as a pot-smoking reference