Kill Tony #27 — Justin Martindale, Shawn Halpin
Guests: Justin Martindale · Shawn Halpin
Lineup
Skylar
Set: Jokes about moving to LA and living with his grandmother, dating with her interrupting, and asking for condom advice leading to an abortion clinic ride request.
Interview: Tony praised his material about living with grandmother, offering suggestions to improve the punchline about the condom and abortion clinic. Discussion about whether to say abortion versus pregnancy in the joke.
- Living with grandmother while dating; she interrupts with offers of food and drink during makeout.
- Should have taken grandmother's condom offer before needing abortion clinic ride.
- Tony and panel coaches Skylar on improving his abortion clinic punchline and suggests alternative setups.
Set: Comedy about attending University of Phoenix Online, creating a fake fight song about going to school for degrees while distracted by pornography, with jokes about online education being illegitimate.
Interview: Panel discussed expanding the University of Phoenix Online joke, suggesting more material about students in underwear, chat rooms, and the illegitimacy of online education.
- University of Phoenix Online mascot is 'Online Predators,' rivals are beauty school, fight song about homework and pornography.
- Panel coaches Carlos to expand joke beyond the fight song into more material about the illegitimacy of online college.
Set: Stand-up about eagles dying in windmill farms and their lack of foresight, with jokes about government conspiracy theories and chemtrails.
Interview: Panel suggested Kenny commit to a stoned conspiracy theory perspective rather than mixing observational humor, and discussed his background from Guatemala.
- Eagles can't see windmill propellers from miles away despite being America's symbol.
- Government spending money on drone spies instead of bomb-equipped eagles committing suicide.
- Tony and panel coach Kenny to lean into his stoned conspiracy theory perspective rather than mixing styles.
- Kenny almost passes out from dizziness during interview; Shawn grabs him to stabilize.
Set: Comedy about Lord of the Rings being superior to Harry Potter, describing a black albino friend who dressed in blackface, and making jokes about being funny despite physical appearance.
Interview: Panel discussed his albino black friend, dad named Mohammed, and suggested stretching material about the friend and family background for more content.
- Lord of the Rings superior to Harry Potter because it won Oscars and books stood the test of time.
- Friend is black albino; dressed in blackface for Halloween claiming right to 'pretend he's real.'
- Panel coaches Sean to expand material about his albino black friend and family background (father named Mohammed).
Set: Newcomer from Mississippi doing man card confiscation jokes: doesn't watch football, wears skinny jeans, eats tofu; includes joke about Obama running over a cat.
Interview: Tony revealed Eric is an internet sensation with Twitter blowing up; discussed his literacy, college degree, French language, and Southern upbringing with switches and sweat.
- Confiscating man cards from non-football watchers, skinny jeans wearers, and tofu eaters.
- President Obama made noise and ran over a cat.
- Tony reveals Eric is an internet sensation from Kill Tony with people going crazy on Twitter.
- Eric can't read but has a bachelor's degree and was valedictorian; speaks French; from Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
GT
Set: Armenian comedian discussing 'donkey dick' running in family and being first Armenian dildo model; crude sexual jokes about prostitute comedian girlfriend.
Interview: Panel discussed his prostitute girlfriend who validates his anatomy; explored Armenian cultural elements and encouraged focus on real character observations over crude descriptions.
- Donkey dick runs in family on mother's side; he'll be first Armenian dildo model.
- Prostitute girlfriend validates his large anatomy; questions about her experience.
- Panel encourages GT to focus on real character dialogue and validation rather than crude descriptions.
Ori Amir
Set: Neuroscience professor/model making jokes about gray matter vs. white matter, cerebellum, and dream of being professional model and amateur neurosurgeon; girlfriend doesn't appreciate brain compliments.
Interview: Tony discovered Ori's girlfriend is a swim teacher; discussed his MRI machine operator job and creepy German accent he uses with patients.
- Gray matter vs. white matter differences unfunny; neither is racist.
- Professional model and amateur neurosurgeon dream; girlfriend dead, doesn't appreciate brain container compliments.
- Tony coaches Ori to lean into creepy German accent MRI operator character that scares patients.
- Tony notes Ori's delivery trails off; encouraged to stay committed to punchlines and lean into villain accent.
Set: Regular dropped out of University of Florida after four months to pursue comedy; jokes about college teaching wrong values like giving coked-up friends more coke instead of help.
Interview: Discussed Kim's college decision, her work as PA at FremantleMedia, almost shredding American Idol binders, and her knowledge of Florida campus controversies.
- College teaches bad values: give drunk friend more coke, not help; encourage pregnancy.
- Tony coaches Kim to tighten story setup and delve more into American Idol binder near-disaster.
Set: Regular rants against pressure to befriend neighbors just because they live nearby; refuses casserole exchanges, asking favors, and learning details about their lives.
Interview: Panel noted her anti-social neighbor perspective aligns with Larry David's style; discussed hearing neighbors having bad sex and fear of neighbor misunderstandings.
- Refuses neighbor friendship pressure: no casseroles, no car jumps, no kid cookie sales.
- Hates receiving casseroles; neighbor must bring them back, creating obligation loop.
- Panel notes her material has Larry David energy about neighbors; discusses her own neighbor avoidance.