Kill Tony #563 — Pauly Shore

Set: Hans Kim performed new material about audience expectations, drug use jokes, and regional observations including jokes about Colorado being a rectangle and Nebraska references.

Interview: Tony asked Hans about his denim outfit, his real name (Kim Hung), his arena work, and got into a lengthy tangent about Pauly Shore's Asian connections and his past relationships with Asian people.

Set: Melissa Diaz performed material about recovering extroversion, her late orgasm at 26, comparisons between male and female sexual development, and student loans.

Interview: Tony discussed her seven years in stand-up, Puerto Rican identity, her Prius, her work as a developer with her boyfriend, her Kindle reading (economics), and her recent move to Texas.

Set: Jack Fluge performed dark material about skydiving, an army girl with a leg blown off in Iraq, and timing meth use for babies losing teeth.

Interview: Tony discussed Jack's age (24), his recent comedy seriousness, his political science degree, DoorDash driving, cooking skills, his hippie roommate without a microwave, and his masturbation habits.

Set: Andrew Vargas delivered chaotic, high-energy material about crying, masturbation, moving from New Mexico with weed, and made disturbing references to Richard Ramirez and school shootings.

Interview: Tony and Pauly questioned Andrew's chaotic energy, his recent move to Austin, his HVAC work background (reframed as 'airbender'), his brother's tech work, his jail time for parking tickets, and his self-promotion attempts.

Set: Ellis Aych performed a minute about his toxic brother, their childhood rivalry over a girl, his brother's insults about other comedians (David Lucas, William Montgomery, Hans Kim), and unpaid debts.

Interview: Tony discussed Ellis's work clothes, his recent shift, his move to avoid missing the show, his booked acting role as a cop in a movie shooting in August in Austin/LA, and his brother's career as a software developer.

Set: Malik Keith's first Kill Tony appearance featuring an incomplete set about arriving early at signup, being turned away by staff, and seeing Hans Kim, with his phone locked preventing full material.

Interview: Tony discussed Malik's first time doing stand-up, his move from Korea where he studied business admin, his 9 months in Austin, his work installing EV components at Halion, his golf hobby (6 years), his preference for Phil Mickelson, and his 18-month-old child with a 'baby mama'.

Set: Sarah Blonde Roots made her Kill Tony debut with jokes about her 65-pound German Shepherd Poodle, becoming 'Eskimo brothers' with the dog after getting blacked out, and getting fired from an axe throwing range for an inappropriate wheelchair joke.

Interview: Tony clarified Sarah's set was actually about her dog eating her vibrator (not fucking her), discussed her two years working at Vulcan Gas Company, her mother's desire to do comedy, her dating history (Black men and one Black Jewish man from Denver), and her firing from the axe range.

Set: William Montgomery performed his weekly set with multiple jokes about Queen Elizabeth's 70-year reign, references to Pauly Shore films, Red Band's mother, Bill Clinton's adviser Mark Middleton's suspicious death, and Jeffrey Epstein.

Interview: Tony discussed William's belt style, his new role as Kirkland Signature brand ambassador, Red Band's confusion about the announcement, William's high state, his use of Forensic Files references, his formula of making two Red Band's mom jokes per set, and his parents potentially joining the panel next week.