Kill Tony #336 — Jeremiah Watkins

Set: First-time comedian discussing baldness, werewolf fears, and how his appearance changed after shaving his head. Included bits about growing a beard as a last resort and failed attempts at cool hairstyles.

Interview: Tony explored Jordan's first time doing stand-up, his marriage, and when he shaved his head. Discussed his wife's appearance and made playful jabs about his body hair and pickup lines.

Set: Two-year stand-up from Missouri making self-deprecating jokes comparing herself to restaurants (Applebee's, White Castle). Discussed her state's reputation and made jokes about making guys shit their pants.

Interview: Tony asked about her stand-up experience in St. Louis and Little Rock, her dog food company job, and recent breakup. Discussed her age, living situation, and dating app use including Bumble and Tinder.

Set: First-time comedian discussing getting old at 36, back pain, and annoyance with people doing accents. Included observations about liking commercials during Wheel of Fortune and discussed his neighbor Mike's fake accent.

Interview: Tony explored Ben's back problems, weight gain, mattress situation, and IT work. Discussed Ferguson area roots, racial attitudes, and why he signed up for the show.

Set: Very brief set that was cut short; comedian appeared nervous and struggled to perform.

Interview: Tony essentially blacklisted Jake without conducting a proper interview, moving on quickly to the next performer.

Set: Nearly 8-year stand-up comedian with one-fourth Filipino son. Made jokes about ethnic slang for Filipino (flip), the linguistic coincidence of having one-fourth of the ethnicity, and self-deprecating humor about his appearance.

Interview: Tony discussed JC's experience doing stand-up for 8 years in St. Louis, his Filipino background, children, large-format printing business, and seminar work with architects. Invited him to do five minutes at the next show.

Set: First-time comedian delivering darkly philosophical comedy about suicide hotlines being haters, aborted fetuses being lucky, and contrarian observations. Extremely original and compelling despite dark subject matter.

Interview: Tony praised Jimmy's set as one of his favorite performances ever, highlighting its originality and compelling nature. Discussed NASCAR, motorcycle riding, beer koozies, working as kitchen assistant manager, and his contrarian worldview.

Set: 23-year-old millennial first-time comedian who only prepared one joke. Made light jokes about nervousness, living in parents' basement, and masturbation frequency.

Interview: Tony discovered Matthew was paid $20 by his friend to sign up as a prank. After some coaxing, Matthew admitted he came unprepared and the interview turned into Tony encouraging him and ultimately bringing up his friend Bobby to perform instead.

Set: Matthew's friend who was reluctantly brought on stage by Tony. Very brief set coached by Tony whispering lines into his ear. Works as car salesman.

Interview: Tony revealed Matthew had paid Bobby $20 to sign up his friend as a prank. Discussed Bobby's car sales business, girlfriend Anna who came on stage, and relationship with Matthew.

Set: Non-comedian signed up by her fiancé without her knowledge. Had no jokes prepared but told one joke her fiancé wrote about technology advancing but not about shrinking kids.

Interview: Tony discovered Courtney's fiancé (a comedy festival organizer) signed her up without her consent. Discussed their relationship length and Tony criticized the fiancé for exploiting his wife on the show.

Set: Legally blind comedian doing a Gallagher tribute character act about buried tapes from the future. Set included references to historical figures and absurdist humor.

Interview: Tony explored John's blindness, how he navigates, his vending machine business managing 60 machines in Illinois, his sense of taste, humor, and dating. Discussed his background and encouraged him to continue comedy.

Set: Stand-up discussing eating pubic hairs at restaurants (12 per year statistic), McDonald's Big Mac jingle with pubes, and general observational humor.

Interview: Tony explored Ron's name origin, his appearance (comparing him to various people), his job as an arborist, his haunted house, hockey fandom, and a story about driving a drunk person to get laid.

Set: Nearly 9-month stand-up comedian making jokes about moving from mom's to grandma's house, finding a girl who cooks/tucks him in, and his Mexican heritage destiny to sell citrus by the road.

Interview: Tony discussed Reynaldo's age (20), his job at the Pageant (rock venue in St. Louis), his mixed Mexican and white background, his father working as line cook at Hooters, and his first meeting with his father at age 15.

Interview: Jeremiah performed as Jack the Ripper character throughout the entire show, staying in character and making various interjections and comments during other comedians' sets and interviews.