Kill Tony #344 — Andrew Santino, Steve Rannazzisi

Set: Set about smoking a joint, homeless person asking to share, lost dog sign with ambiguous reward, and Los Angeles as a place of opportunity for dogs looking for representation.

Interview: Tony and panel discussed Sam's age (22), where he's from (Erie, Pennsylvania), near-drowning experiences at Lake Erie, STD testing, vaccination status, Airbnb cleaning work, and finding condoms/broken condoms.

Set: Thomas performed with heavy prop use and physical comedy, opening with criticism of stage performance conventions, wearing a Smash Mouth outfit, doing kicks, and riding a Vespa scooter on stage. Set was anger-driven and meta-critical of comedy itself.

Interview: Tony discovered Thomas has appeared in films and TV (Mozart in the Jungle, Marvelous, Legacy), is an actor/musician/rapper, has acting credits, plays drums and guitar, and performs rap. Discussed his background, lack of redeemable qualities, and anger-driven performance style.

Set: Set focused on Trump paying women for silence, John McCain dead jokes, Supreme Court issues with religious service refusals for gay events, comparing difficult professions to gay-oriented jobs.

Interview: Brandon discussed his political comedy, working as production assistant, wanting to become a writer, his mother's alcoholism, year and a half in LA, and an encounter with Andy Dick involving cocaine and his college connection.

Set: Set about being bullied in Connecticut drama club by gay kids, Connecticut geography jokes about being between Boston and New York, Boston Red Sox fandom, and brother being Yankees fan.

Interview: Brandon discussed his 15 years in LA, bartender and voice acting work, recent film 'The Outpost', Andy Dick's behavior at his bar, marriage to English woman, theatre background, and performing an improv scene as Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

Set: Set about grandfather's death by assisted suicide, dark comedy about suicide as accomplishment, and reference to other audience members possibly considering suicide. Also mentioned sucking eighty dicks as callback.

Interview: Meghan discussed being from Chicago, currently between jobs (worked as showrunner's assistant), wanting to get into writing, grandmother still alive, watching documentaries, interest in horror and comedy, failed job interview at Blumhouse over horror/comedy comparison.

Set: Set about movie 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Pool Cue' with bar fights in Japan, Rosetta Stone for deaf people, spreading chlamydia around, and looking for Tony Chen character from sewer system.

Interview: William discussed contracting chlamydia in Phoenix, being drunk on gin and orange juice, having tonsillitis, past Toshiba job in Japan, getting jacket from Cracker Barrel, sex club in Phoenix with blood everywhere due to autoimmune deficiency.