Kill Tony Dom Irrera, Luis J Gomez
Guests: Dom Irrera · Luis J Gomez
Lineup
Set: Noah jokes about homelessness in LA, describing tent encampments as modern-day tabernacles. Opens with a school shooting reference that falls flat.
Interview: Noah reveals he's from Texas, moved to San Diego 6 months ago, works at KFC, and attends USC film school for screenwriting. He lives with his mom and sister.
- Homeless encampments in LA are modern-day tabernacles, not the best but most holy.
- Noah hesitated after 30 seconds despite doing stand-up for 5 years, prompting criticism from Tony about material quality.
Jeff Urrea
Set: Matthew jokes about gym memberships being ripoffs compared to Netflix, then pitches creating a hybrid gym-church called God as My Fitness where confessions double as diet accountability.
Interview: Matthew admits to getting bigger, reveals he makes creme brulee obsessively with a kitchen torch, is unemployed, and supplements with cheap ingredients.
- Gym memberships cost $40/month, Netflix costs $8; building own gym-church hybrid called God as My Fitness.
- Matthew dropped canned item and deliberately didn't pick it up, prompting crowd laughter and Tony's observation about shame.
Set: Jenny discusses getting out of an abusive relationship, serving jail time, having a restraining order, and being a parent. She tells a crude Cinderella story she shared with her kids about a date ending in diarrhea.
Interview: Jenny lost majority custody to her baby daddy after beating him up in front of the kids. She works as a Lyft driver, previously did construction, and reveals volatile relationship history.
- Told kids Cinderella story where date ends with diarrhea bathroom trip as punchline.
- Jenny revealed she beat up her baby daddy in front of the kids and served jail time, leading to majority custody loss.
- Tony and panel expressed shock that a judge gave a Black man majority custody, with controversial racial commentary.
AJ Faji
Set: AJ jokes about online dating codes for racial preferences, the difference between 'country girl' and 'southern belle' (both meaning no Black guys), and reactions to his Nigerian accent when people compliment his English.
Interview: AJ is Nigerian, born in Nigeria, lived in NYC, Iowa, and now Los Angeles. He's a pharmacist with 10 years experience, attended Drake University, and moved to LA recently.
- Online dating codes: 'country girl' and 'southern belle' both mean 'no Black guys.'
- When people compliment his English, he points out it's the only language he speaks, making the compliment absurd.
- Joel Jimenez was identified as the person AJ would have to sleep with next as a running gag.
Set: Ali jokes about inadequate restaurant training being like a game of telephone, describes the break room as a prison cell, and wishes a difficult customer would actually work there instead.
Interview: Ali works at a wing joint for 3-4 weeks, mostly serves Black customers who order boneless wings, gets good tips, and is opening for Russell Peters in Phoenix.
- Restaurant training is like telephone game; three-day training then training someone new with unclear rules.
- If a blind person worked at her job they'd be better than her; unclear if more offensive to blind people or her.
- Ali is identified as a regular returning to the show, opening for Russell Peters upcoming.
Set: Jonathan's set is nearly incoherent; he makes crude references and appears heavily intoxicated. Minimal discernible material or structure.
Interview: Jonathan signed up for the show 5+ times, got drunk waiting, admits he has no material. He became a paid regular at Comedy Store in 1997 and made a short film called Shark Week.
- Jonathan appeared so drunk that Tony and panel expressed anger and discomfort, with Dom saying he hated him more than any guest.
- Jonathan predicted his own name from bucket before it was announced, making Tony suspicious the show was rigged.
Set: Luke jokes that successful comedians are often unfunny miserable douchebags, so he decided to give it a try. Notes that stand-up comedy requires little work and comedians often get angry about genitals.
Interview: Luke is from Belgium, been doing stand-up for 2 months, just arrived in America 2 months ago. Works as a cruise director on river cruises with 200 people, has been doing that for 10 years.
- Successful comedians are unfunny miserable lonely suicidal douchebags, so he decided to try it.
- Luke mentioned he was bored with comedy and almost left LA early, but decided to do Kill Tony first.
- Luke talked about people dying on his river cruises, initially presented as dark comedy but revealed as just elderly passengers.