Kill Tony #408
Lineup
Raul
Set: Raul's first stand-up set references divorce, single life, and dating mishaps with crude humor about squirting and bodily functions.
Interview: 47-year-old divorced for 4 years, has two kids (ages 9 and 8), works in steel construction, practices psychedelics and fishing.
- Compares squirting women to hippo tail movements and bodily functions.
- References accidentally swallowing squid and not being a prude about it.
- Tony jokingly establishes 'Tony is a pedophile' as a running joke after mentioning ages 9 and 8.
Set: Kanye East performs an absurdist character obsessed with candy bars and nonsensical rants, breaking character midway through.
Interview: Real name Joe Hate Schumer, been doing stand-up 10 years, developed Kanye character over 2 months, performs characters mostly.
- Character obsesses over not having 30 cents for candy bar at 7-Eleven.
- Kanye East wins drum solo competition against Joel Berg in surprisingly close match.
- Reveals he moved into deceased woman's house and paid her back council rates.
Set: Liam delivers clean observational humor about gender assumptions, gym signs, afterlife choices, and absurd scenarios.
Interview: First time doing stand-up, on-and-off for 7 years total, from Melbourne, full-time carer for uncle with prostate cancer (2 months left).
- Girls don't know if they're being talked to because of their boobs.
- Stairway to heaven vs highway to hell means choosing hell to avoid stairs.
- Hit cop holding 'stop police' sign with car.
- Awarded golden ticket, only the seventh in show history.
- Revelation that he has sex with a girl from Plenty of Fish dating app.
Set: 19-year-old tells a story about a Buddhist temple lady asking him to pray for her son, only to encounter him partying and doing coke.
Interview: 19-year-old from Central Coast (north of Sydney), moved to Melbourne at 15 for jujitsu, blue belt, works weekend security, enrolled in police academy.
- Buddhist temple lady asks him to pray for her son; later discovers it's his coke-using friend.
- Reveals his parents are Sikh but he told them he was becoming cop when really doing comedy and drugs.
Set: Paul covers singing in street, dead father-in-law buried at Mount Meru with 8-hour drive to cemetery, social media insults from daughters.
Interview: From Adelaide, works in tax office handling deceased estates, married 31 years, 3 daughters, coaches running, won 1985 Stawell Gift twice.
- Father-in-law buried; doesn't remember where, can't find body for wife's graveside visit.
- Nearly unintelligible thick Australian accent makes it hard for Tony and audience to understand.
Set: Dan attacks Catholic Church methodology, jokes about priest screening questions including video game use and cryptic usernames.
Interview: Owns cleaning and gardening company in Queensland, 36 years old, 3 redheaded sons (12 and 9-year-old twins), married 31 years, hobby mountain biker.
- Three screening questions for priests: drink wine from box, play Fortnite, have cryptic username.
- Tony struggles to understand his Australian accent repeatedly during interview.
JC
Set: JC jokes about recent breakup, dating challenges, admits to cheating on ex-girlfriend, jokes about dating his sister (claims joking).
Interview: Started comedy this year, works selling swords, raps on weekends, smokes weed, recently broke up with girlfriend who called 14 times.
- Dating is hard; girl cared he cheated but hung up on 3-year age gap.
- Makes joke about dating sister; insists it's humor while revealing breakup details.
- Reveals he works selling swords and guy he sold to may have stabbed people on Bourke Street.
Set: John's first stand-up about living in Collingwood becoming hipster, prostate fluid changes, and reading color charts in 7-Eleven.
Interview: First-ever stand-up, graphic designer from Footscray, in open relationship since start of year, dated 3-4 women concurrently.
- Living in Collingwood makes prostate fluid come out soy or almond instead of normal.
- Can't remember prostate color until sees 7-Eleven color chart; realizes he's very red.
- Confesses to being in open relationship and dating 3-4 women in first few months of year.
- Celebrates birthday tomorrow after first stand-up performance.
Set: Ellen jokes about marrying man 12 years older, discovering daddy issues through therapy, dating app mishaps, and Grindr mix-up.
Interview: Started stand-up in May, bartender for 10 years, saw prostitute work at bar, has border collie named Ellie, slept with famous comedian.
- Married 12-year older man thinking it was because she was mature; therapy revealed daddy issues.
- Date said she looked like Clint Eastwood; she still had sex with him despite poor compliment.
- Accidentally joined Grindr (gay dating app) and guy was shocked to find she didn't have dick.
- Tony calls her Miss Piggy after Clint Eastwood joke, becomes running gag rest of interview.
- Reveals she hooked up with famous American comedian (beep appears later) for whole weekend.
- Woman from audience kisses Ellen at end of episode in crowd work moment.
Mark Borg
Set: Mark jokes about not knowing prime minister and proposes politicians lose a finger each time they lie.
- Politicians should lose a finger for each lie to give them seven chances.
- One of the weakest sets of the night; Tony immediately dismisses him without proper interview.
Ian Howlett
Set: Ian covers being parent of autistic son, school using his photo for fundraiser without permission, observational parenting humor.
Interview: 5 years experience (~20 open mikes), separated from baby mama but still living together, just started at cheese factory.
- Autistic son goes to LSD school (Latrobe Special Developmental); school used his photo for fundraiser.
- Tony praises set as example of personal observational humor vs political rants.
- Woman from audience kisses Ian at episode end to give him first kiss in 10 years.