Kill Tony #433 — Bob Saget, Doug Benson
Guests: Bob Saget · Doug Benson
Lineup
Set: Nate discussed moving from New Orleans to California, contrasting regional vocabulary and slang differences, dating a girl from LA, and working as security/bouncer.
Interview: Nate revealed he was listening to the livestream while waiting outside and nearly missed his name being called. Discussion covered his Louisiana roots, bouncer work, and advice from Bob about cursing less for TV.
- Louisiana vs California vocabulary differences like 'boku' and 'cooyong'
- Girl asked if he was a transplant after mentioning New Orleans
- Nate came up the center of the stage like a zombie demon instead of using stairs
- Was listening to live stream while waiting outside, heard his name through his phone
Set: Mike joked about his sister's dog DNA test, growing up in Ocean City New Jersey without bars, and a story about sticking his banana in a banana slicer at a pancake house job.
Interview: Mike is from Ocean City, New Jersey, currently staying in Santa Monica, visited for comedy and friends, plays baseball, and holds a communications degree from the College of New Jersey.
- Sister got DNA test for dog, got 60% German Shepherd and wasted money
- Stuck banana in banana slicer at work, got fired and slicer fired too
- Ocean City dry town is like dating hot girl without daddy issues
- First time on Kill Tony, just visiting LA, has done open mics multiple times
- Tony joked about his banana joke being completely unrelated and praised timing
Set: William did a dark set about selling a screenplay about the apocalypse, joking about getting high in middle school and choking himself, and Dilaudid usage at CVS pharmacy.
Interview: A shocking moment occurred when William's doppelgänger/friend Matt McCarthy appeared on stage. The two performed together doing callbacks and bits about their similar appearance.
- Sold screenplay about apocalypse called The Stained like Stephen King meets Michael Jackson
- Used to get high in middle school and choke himself in desk
- Found correct Dilaudid dosage in water for shooting up
- Matt McCarthy appeared as William Montgomery replacement, fooling William about being replaced
- Two Williams performed together with near-identical appearance and clothing
- Discussed working on Mario Kart project as stunt doubles playing Luigi
Set: Spencer's first-ever stand-up set about getting high and iPhone calling cops, road trip with Johnson & Johnson jokes, and marketing ideas for Jehovah's Witness.
Interview: Spencer is 25, owns a pool cleaning business in Florida, recently moved to LA, cleans dildos from pools, and joked about his truck bed capacity.
- Got so high iPhone called cops during road trip with Johnson & Johnson
- Proposed updating Jehovah's Witness marketing tactics with Facebook ads
- Tony said this was his favorite set of the night, praised Spencer's performance
- Spencer revealed he cleans dildos from client's pool bottom
- Spencer performed a heel kick that dropped Doug's bowl/support animal
- Uncle Joey gave life lesson from finding Doug's item in his pocket
Set: Galloping Buffalo (Michael Silver) joked about trust fund baby friend, confronting childhood priest, girlfriend's crystal obsession, getting high before picking up nephew from school.
Interview: Mike was revealed to be a repeat performer who sells fish in his uncle's business, has done stand-up for 10 months, lives near LAX in Lomita, grew up in LA.
- Confronted childhood priest saying he's not his dad because trust fund friend's mom died
- Girlfriend into crystals vs he wanted to die, dark humor about relationships
- Got really high picking up nephew from school, nephew kept saying not my uncle
- Revealed he sells fish in family business for uncle, previously boxed fish
- Tony proposed fish cleaning competition between Mike and Bob Saget
- Mike shadow boxed demonstrating close-range fighting style
Set: David discussed the difficulty of breaking up with exes and condom usage, comparing wearing condoms to washing hands with gloves, jokes about his weight and AIDS.
Interview: David is 29, from Macon Georgia, raised in hood, works as comedian full time, just finished tour with Eric Griffin selling out shows, writes 20 new jokes weekly.
- Hardest part of breaking up is having to use condoms with new people
- Wearing condoms is like washing hands with gloves, you feel water but not wetness
- Can't have AIDS because he's too fat, over 250 pounds
- Tony praised David's consistent quality and well-written jokes every week
- Extensive roasting from Doug and other panelists about appearance and clothing
- Mentioned getting in stagnant place with comedy before Kill Tony, now writes fresh material
Set: Aleta's set about messaging with a boy from Florida, asking her to get 'facebooked', rejecting sexual advances for dinner, and one year without sex choosing drinking over dating.
Interview: Aleta has been doing stand-up for two years, from Westchester New York, lives in LA for six years, works at coffee shop, previously struggled with cocaine.
- Boy from Florida asked to 'facebook' her, still hoping he meant he likes her
- Asked boy to take her to dinner before anything else, call me old-fashioned
- Hasn't had sex for over a year because easier to quit than drinking
- Revealed history of cocaine use in New York before moving to LA
- Tony praised her nervous energy that turned into strong jokes with timing
- Mentioned friend Mario supporting her who was seen in background recording
- Booked for five-minute set at the Ice House for future show
Set: Michael's wheelchair-accessible set about getting a new battery, hating people who can walk, not wanting to be inspiration but getting attention for it.
Interview: Michael has been doing stand-up a few months, from Chicago with 20 years Second City improv training, has a son Colin doing commercials, uses power chair.
- Got new battery for wheelchair, all it does is swallow pain
- Hates people who can walk, pray for them to break something
- Everyone says he's inspirational, just wants attention for being inspiration
- Discussed son Colin getting commercial headshots and acting work
- Started campaign to get Zinger power chair to sponsor him on social media
- Michael performs magic and rap in addition to stand-up comedy
- Rapped 'No Scrubs' modified as 'No Stairs' getting crowd reaction
Set: Bryson joked about hearing parents having sex and both coming, his Marine background, yoga instructor getting more applause, and apologizing to yoga instructors in LA.
Interview: Bryson has been doing stand-up almost two years, former Marine stationed at Twentynine Palms, now personal trainer through FitOps program, from Middle America.
- Hearing parents have sex as kid, thinking they both came, joke was he came first
- Yoga instructor gets more applause than him for dignity fight
- Apologized for yoga instructor joke given 130 yoga instructors in LA
- Revealed Marine Corps background, was sniper trained
- Discussed training through John Cena's FitOps program which got million dollar donation
- Confetti fell from ceiling, Uncle Joey thought it was creature/bat
- Discussion of Comedy Store being haunted, ghost stories from late night shifts