Kill Tony #420

Set: Jesse describes growing up in Covington, Kentucky, and tells a story about witnessing a crackhead performing sex acts on his father's dog at a trap house when he was young. The set is largely incoherent due to his admitted edible consumption before performing.

Interview: Tony learns Jesse is a realtor who took an edible before his set, which caused him to forget his material. Tony counsels him to save edibles for post-performance rewards. Jesse reveals his father collected money at trap houses and his dog Zeus was involved in the explicit story.

Set: Rob is a corporate accountant who discusses calling suicide prevention hotlines, environmental consciousness as motivation for early death, and his struggles with mental health presented as dark comedy.

Interview: Rob reveals he works in accounting, hasn't had sex in two years with a coworker at a training event, plays piano and enjoys baking. He's 25 years old, went to John Carroll University in Cleveland, and his parents run nursing homes and teach English.

Set: Luke tells quick, disjointed one-liners about a roommate's inappropriate behavior, his own insecurities about lips, and a family reunion encounter with someone who has Alzheimer's. Set is delivered nervously and largely unintelligible.

Interview: Luke plays drums in the band Northbound for two and a half years. He froze on stage and forgot his material. Tony offers him a chance to compete in a Mexican drum-off against Joel Berg for the drummer position, which Luke loses spectacularly.

Set: Sampson is a construction worker with a bedbug infestation who jokes about his appearance (tech guy face), hookups, and tells the story of confusing bedbugs with herpes during a sexual encounter. He claims to be on his third mattress.

Interview: Sampson started comedy in April 2024, works in construction management on apartment complexes, lives east of Columbus in Reynoldsburg. He's Ethiopian, has a recent fetish for lesbians, and once hit on a lesbian at a dive bar with a pride flag.

Set: Halima does edgy one-liners comparing herself to Hitler (both Taurus), making fun of blackface, and suggesting she'd write 'Mine Mine Kampf.' The set is provocative and uses shock humor.

Interview: Halima is 20 years old, Somali, bi-sexual, OSU neuroscience major, and started comedy in April 2024. Her mother died two years ago (was an ESL teacher), father owns medical transportation. She plans to move to NYC after college and plays harmonica poorly.

Set: Henny tells a short story about seeing a homeless man's sign reading 'This is the end' and relates it to his comedy career. Admits he had three finals today and didn't prepare material.

Interview: Henny studies civil engineering at Ohio State with a year and a half left. He's a farm boy from Northeast Ohio (Chippewa), performed 30 minutes at Nationwide Arena, and performed without preparation due to having three finals that day.

Set: Eric is a truck driver who created a game of masturbating while driving at 65+ mph. He discusses his recent marriage to a woman he met online and describes his plan to intentionally ruin her teeth for early oral sex.

Interview: Eric is 31, has been driving trucks for 5 years, married his wife (also 5 years) who he met on MeetMe app. She's a Walmart customer service manager. He works local routes, is home every night, and has a skateboard in his car.

Set: Jack tells rambling story about going to a strip club with his brother and a high roller, discovering they could get sex in the champagne room, and his brother doing cocaine and receiving oral sex from a dancer while another friend participates.

Interview: Jack is 47, married 22 years with three daughters, from Texas. He worked for Lyndale News and Times newspaper, interviewed Miranda Lambert before her fame. He grew up in a mixed Black and white neighborhood, writes regularly.

Set: Jordan delivers rapid-fire one-liners: 'ostracize' has nothing to do with ostriches, uncertainty about dick size vs. ball length, Mr. Rogers never had sex with kids. The set is purely jokes with no stories.

Interview: Jordan has done stand-up for a year and a half, prefers one-liners but does longer material. Works at classic car dealership cleaning and dealing cars. From Circleville south of Columbus, smokes weed, has Asian girlfriend from Pennsylvania, admits to being boring.

Set: Tony discusses growing up Mexican in suburbs because his parents cared about bills but not parenting. He jokes about being used as a stepping stone by white women, Mexican physiology, and running/cross-country comparisons.

Interview: Tony was high school valedictorian. Short interview as Tony moves quickly to next performers. Tony B Cruise was apparently high school valedictorian, though minimal biographical details provided.

Set: Justin performs rapid one-liners about eating ass terminology, stacking prepositions during sex, comparing sexual positions to nursery rhyme geography (around the house, through, up hill, etc.).

Interview: Justin works in IT for 5 years and has been doing stand-up comedy for 5 years. Has opened for shows, girlfriend looks like him without beard, performs minimal material beyond prepared jokes, describes himself as grateful and boring in bed.

Set: Joey discusses birds not having feelings, obsession with birds after NYC visit where pigeons are gigantic, considers pigeons as bad flashlights, and makes pigeon/pigeonhole wordplay ending.

Interview: Joey plays in multiple punk bands as singer and guitarist. Performs acapella rendition of nervous breakdown song. First-time stand-up, bi-sexual, has experienced girl cutting him with knife and licking blood which aroused him sexually.