Kill Tony #350 — Spokane

Set: Robbie's set covered parenthood, babies peeing on people, adopting a two-year-old son, and a joke about dating younger people that ended with the punchline about eight-year-olds.

Interview: Tony and panel discussed his adopted son's age, his wife, fertility issues, and his teaching career in human development. Robbie revealed he teaches college-level courses on how humans develop through the lifespan.

Set: Graham's first-time set focused on his name (Cox, Dixon, Richard) and testicle torsion from his grandfather. He made jokes about his name containing multiple references to male anatomy.

Interview: Tony extensively questioned Graham about his braided hair, his location in Nelson British Columbia, his Honda Element vehicle, his unemployment, and his work in security camera installation. Graham was evasive about how he survives financially.

Set: Alexander's first-time set discussed growing up without Christmas presents, his father terrorizing the family dog with an RC drone, and comparing the dog's fear to Syrian children seeing drones.

Interview: Tony learned Alexander is 22 from Missoula, Montana, has a girlfriend of three years, studied music/opera, and currently works in a cafe. He aspires to move south for music opportunities and has a sister who lived in Nashville.

Set: Phillip's set covered having kids young, his wife's breast pump, sucking the breast pump at his wife's request, and buddies' confusion about the noises from the breast pump.

Interview: Phillip revealed he's been doing comedy for five years, is a regional headliner for Washington, has two boys aged 14 and 12, met his wife in college, and has been married for 16 years. He skis, snowboards, and has a skate ramp.

Set: Carey's set used wordplay on 'active shooter' to mean someone who is active/fit at the gym, making jokes about an unfit person coming to an office with a gun not being dangerous because they're lazy.

Interview: Tony and Carey discussed his real name, MMA coaching, his son who is an MMA fighter, his work in commercial irrigation with heavy equipment, and his side work as a pastry chef making wedding cakes.

Set: Elijah's first-time set covered CTE making Game of Thrones unwatchable, Stephen Hawking's last words being 'low battery,' an argument with girlfriend about licorice flavors, and ended with a dark joke about 'no blacks.'

Interview: Elijah revealed he's 22, an MMA fighter who recently retired from competition, and works with his father in the irrigation/construction business. He also does modeling work and sings the national anthem for local amateur fighting events.

Set: Shmarmeny's first-time set discussed seasonal depression, hating PT Cruisers, feeling happy in spring when it's musical, and dealing with winter depression in an unclear comedic structure.

Interview: Tony extensively pressed Shmarmeny about her anxiety and apologizing, her family leaving before her set, her work in a medical laboratory, and her interests including hiking, skateboarding, and owning three dogs.

Set: Brian's set imagined all males ejaculating simultaneously to create six minutes of world peace, joked about the cleanup aftermath, and made a joke about mistaking a minivan for a cop car that ended with a trunk kidnapping joke.

Interview: Brian revealed he met his wife online on a now-defunct webcam site called Stickam, flew to Spokane after five months of chatting, and has been married for nearly 10 years. He has three sons and works in health/wellness selling weight loss products.

Set: Dylan's first-time set covered a herniated disc diagnosis preventing high-impact work, joking he'd 'probably just kill myself tonight,' and made dark jokes comparing his situation to his mother's car accident survival.

Interview: Dylan disclosed he has a herniated disc making him unable to work warehouse jobs anymore. Tony discussed his mother's hit-and-run car accident and offered mentorship/networking to help Dylan transition to sales or potentially booking comedy.

Set: Phil's set compared depression unfavorably to other mental illnesses, discussed his brother's suicide-by-exhaust at age 11, and made multiple dark jokes about mental health and family tragedy.

Interview: Phil revealed he's a former software engineer for 18 years who had a mental health crisis and took two years off. He's now doing stand-up after being inspired by Kill Tony, learning guitar, and focusing on things that bring joy.