Kill Tony #206 — Jeff Danis, Ryan O'Neill
Guests: Jeff Danis · Ryan O'Neill
Lineup
Set: Webb discusses being closeted in Texas, Family Feud's sexually explicit questions, and his love of TV news, particularly the woman in viral videos who reacts to chaos.
Interview: Webb reveals he's been in LA for a month, has done stand-up for four years (about eight times), is a fifth-generation Texan, and currently works as a hostess after recently moving to West Hollywood.
- Family Feud questions became sexually explicit; old nanas answer 'dick.'
- Woman in every viral video says 'Oh my god, look what you're doing.'
- Moses makes sexual innuendo about Daniel's appearance as 'gay Jesus.'
Set: Heron discusses coming out as straight at Easter, color runs causing lung cancer, arm wrestling his girlfriend to feel strong, and the wage gap.
Interview: Heron revealed this is his second time on stage ever, he works at a Thai restaurant six days a week washing dishes, and he met his girlfriend on Tinder three months before sex.
- Color runs make you look like Richard Simmons farted on your face.
- Arm wrestling girlfriend proves she's strong enough for both of us.
- Tony helps Ryan after failed set two weeks prior, encouraging him to try again and laugh it off.
- Ryan makes racially insensitive accent impressions of former bosses.
Set: Winston discusses being a dyslexic privileged white guy, doing special prayers with his priest as a kid, imagining Pope Sean Paul, and his chronic anxiety.
Interview: Winston is a tennis instructor from New Jersey visiting LA, has been doing stand-up for under two years, his girlfriend is attending the show, and he longboards.
- Took priest into closet for special prayers due to dyslexia.
- Pope Sean Paul would bless children while being cool.
- When I run out of chronic, I get anxious.
- Moses accuses Tate of blasphemy for priest joke.
Set: Flanagan discusses his brother failing a colorblind test for LA sheriff position and questions why colorblindness is disqualifying when cops should ignore race.
Interview: Flanagan works at The Room bar in Hollywood, was on the show last week, coaches women's recreational basketball, and has experience from junior college.
- Brother failed sheriff test for being colorblind; should only disqualify.
- Extended discussion about Jonathan's women's basketball coaching; sexual innuendo throughout interview.
- Jonathan appears to fall down stairs at end of interview.
Set: Mack discusses SeaWorld hiring people to manually pleasure whales, the difficulty of finding women for the job paralleling his own dating struggles, and his mismatched anatomy.
Interview: Mack is an actor who's been doing stand-up for five months, recently finished a movie in Portland, and his Instagram is aggressively douchey with hashtags and selfies.
- SeaWorld hires people to jack off whales; women avoid the job.
- Hard to find woman who can handle huge dick and small penis.
- Tony and panel review Kevin's Instagram full of douche hashtags and selfies.
- Kevin reveals he took photo with Chris Brown in Bugatti, nearly posted with wife-beater hashtag.
- Kevin admits speaking to his father for the first time in his life last week.
Set: Makofsky discusses shaving her head, still being narcissistic and hot, transitioning into Justin Bieber, growing up Catholic/Jewish but identifying as Christian in Orange County and out-worshipping everyone.
Interview: Makofsky is 21 years old, almost three years into comedy, works at a French restaurant in Los Feliz, her mom is in the audience, and she's trying to remain abstinent.
- Shaving head didn't make me less narcissistic; still hot though.
- Out-worshipped everyone at church; competed for attention during worship.
- Ali's mother in audience gives evil eye at herpes mic joke.
- Ali encountered actress Precious at her workplace and was unsure how to react.
Set: Bowen delivers rapid-fire puns and wordplay: born in basement/raised in elevator, nearly overdosed on B12 at six, declined birthday cake at eight, stole chairs for pranks, depressed in high school and attempted suicide.
Interview: Bowen is from Burlington, Vermont, has been doing stand-up just over three years, worked building skate parks in Phoenix, and writes joke zines with $1 cover charge.
- Born in basement, raised in elevator; childhood pun on ages.
- English teacher: take a seat. Me: only fun if forbidden.
- Principal caught me hanging myself; I was suspended.
- Panel and Tony extremely impressed by rapid-fire pun delivery and one-liners.
- Richard reveals watch tattoo says 'time to grind' and he's a skater.
- Jesus/Moses praise Richard's comedy prowess enthusiastically.
Interview: Jeff discusses how he and Ryan were Tony's first comedy mentors, they made fun of Tony early in his career (comparing him to Mike Seaver from Growing Pains), and Tony says he's been trying to book them together for four years.
- Jeff was Tony's first host when Tony started doing open mics in LA.
Interview: Ryan discusses being one of Tony's first comedy mentors, they roasted Tony early in his career, Ryan was literally Tony's first time hosting someone on stage, and they brought all 12 people in the audience to support Tony.
- Ryan was Tony's absolute first open mic host ever.
- They brought 12 people (the entire audience) to Tony's first show.
Interview: Jeremiah is the Kill Tony band member on looper/pooper, performs musical bits with Joel Berg, will be at Moon Tower Houston this weekend for shows.
- Jeremiah performs in costume as Moses with Joel Berg as Jesus during band intro.
Interview: Joel is the Kill Tony band member on saxophone, performs in costume bits with Jeremiah Watkins, formerly worked at a skate park.
- Joel performs in costume as Egyptian/Dumbledore character during band intro.
Interview: Brian is the host of Kill Tony podcast, operates on the ones and twos, asks numerous personal and sexual questions to performers throughout the episode.
- Brian makes repeated sexual comments and asks inappropriate questions throughout the show.