Kill Tony #293
Lineup
Set: Jay does observational comedy about recipe websites that force readers through personal backstories before revealing ingredients. He discusses mansplaining in STEM fields and questions whether online recipe authors are failed writers.
Interview: Tony learns Jay is 35, a property maintenance worker from Grand Rapids who was previously a car salesman. Discussion covers his background, drug use, and why he left Lansing.
- Recipe websites force readers through personal stories before ingredient lists.
- Online recipes published by failed writers who hold readers hostage.
- Tony makes Ford Fiesta car recommendation joke and threatens to use trapdoor lever.
Set: Cody makes jokes about coffee shop name changes, microwave blue balls, and people in wheelchairs calling them electric chairs. Observational comedy with crude punchlines.
Interview: Cody is a magician and pizza maker at a craft brewery in Kalamazoo. Tony and the panel explore his fanny pack containing tobacco downstem, American flag fanny pack, and other eccentric items.
- Coffee shop name change reactions and comparison to spick-and-span product.
- Microwave metaphor about giving blue balls when timer interrupted.
- Cody smokes tobacco from Gatorade bottle downstem during interview, Joel Berg vomits.
- Tony discovers Cody wears two different Heely shoes as transportation.
Set: Spencer discusses homonyms in the dictionary and how words with double meanings like 'race' contribute to racism. High while discussing word definitions and their social implications.
Interview: Spencer is 20, revealed to have fake ID, lies repeatedly about his location relative to Detroit. Tony catches him in multiple falsehoods throughout the interview.
- Homonyms in dictionary confuse meanings like race (competition vs. ethnicity).
- Security confronts Spencer for fake ID, he ordered water; Tony mocks his lying.
- Tony catches Spencer repeatedly lying about distance from Detroit, mocks white privilege.
Set: James discusses Snapchat usefulness, condoms as betrayal during sex, and dryer settings for damp clothing. Includes werewolf and snake metaphors for awkward intimate moments.
Interview: James has been doing stand-up for 5 years, recently moved to Lansing from Northern California. He is a substitute teacher K-12 and discusses teaching challenges, gun control, and pornography preferences.
- Condoms feel like betrayal when interrupting sexual momentum.
- Dryer's less-dry setting appeals to those wanting damp heavy feeling.
- Tony praises James's setup-less punchline as comparable to Louie CK or Bill Burr.
Set: Tyler jokes about substitute teaching, Spirit Airlines quality, and having sex on an airplane. Discusses customer service smile as coping mechanism for sadness.
Interview: Tyler is 27, first-time comedian, works in life insurance in Lansing. Discussion covers dating apps, awkward BDSM date experience, and physical fears like slipping in shower.
- Spirit Airlines passenger argument with flight attendant about airline quality.
- Had sex on airplane after Spirit flight, partner was from Detroit.
- Tony discusses BDSM date where woman wanted choking and bruises, Tyler refused.
Set: Jacob admits he has no prepared material, brother signed him up. Makes single joke about not having fun since 9/11, mentions wife's anniversary is that date.
Interview: Jacob is shocked his brother signed him up without warning. Tony praises his honesty as superior to others, keeps him on stage for extended interview about his nervousness.
- Haven't had fun since 9/11, that's his wife's anniversary.
- Tony calls Jacob's set his favorite of the night for pure honesty despite no preparation.
- Brother Adam Droscha also called to stage to perform his own set, ball-tapping revenge.
Set: Adam opens by clarifying he's Jacob's brother not brother-in-law, mentions ball-tapping revenge. Makes jokes about Tinder and dating app culture.
Interview: Adam also signed himself up for the show. Tony discusses his best man speech abilities and compares him to TJ Miller with a head injury.
- Not brother-in-law, actual brother getting revenge for ball-taps.
- Adam gets called to stage to perform after signing himself up, ball-taps Jacob on stage.
Set: Malcolm does new material about asking friends to rob a bank, includes jokes about his wife's friends versus his Black friends' excuses. Discusses Tiffany going to jail.
Interview: Malcolm is a regular who writes new material for every episode. Discussion covers his tour schedule, coffee drinking, sleeping in jeans, and his hot body temperature.
- Asks friends to rob bank, wife's friends agree while Black friends make excuses.
- Friend Tiffany goes to jail three months after bank robbery invite.
- Tony notes Malcolm is writing new material every few days for tour stops.
Set: Ian discusses pregnant women eating for two, pregnancy fetishes as pedophilia adjacent, Flint water thirst jokes, and linguistic shift from 'ass licker' insult to pickup line.
Interview: Ian is 24, web developer from Allendale near Grand Rapids. Discussion covers his Nordic look, man bun, Slipknot fandom, heartbreak from college relationship, and whitewater rafting in West Virginia.
- Pregnant women eating for two is essentially a threeway.
- Pregnancy fetish enthusiasts are clever pedophiles getting closer to young.
- Flint water so thirsty it rivals pregnant women's thirst.
- Joel Berg shoves five-dollar bill up Ian's nose as punchline reaction.
- Tony diagnoses Ian's emotional issues from college breakup through psychology.
Nick Langen
Set: Nick pitches movie concept about Barack Obama and The Rock looking similar, connecting college football to presidency in alternate timeline, similar to Fight Club structure.
Interview: Nick is 25, assistant manager at Marathon gas station north of Lansing. Discusses watching Comedy Central, appreciates stand-up comedy, and is first-time performer.
- Barack Obama and The Rock look identical, connected via alternate timeline.
- Tony breaks news that Joel Berg is at four bombs in a row toward tattoo streak.
Set: Sammy discusses Irish Catholic upbringing, confessing sins weekly while being expected to commit new ones. Makes dark joke about altar boy in confessional booth and antisemitic punchline.
Interview: Sammy has been doing stand-up for three years in Kalamazoo with five open mikes weekly. Works at Mophie making phone accessories, hosts open mics, notes few female comics in scene.
- Catholic confession requires committing new sins weekly for confession material.
- Turned altar boy into altar man in confessional, cleaned off Jews.
- Sammy revealed as only female bucket pull, closes show unexpectedly.
- Discovery that Sammy is dating Cody Holdridge from earlier in show.