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Kill Tony #635 — Duncan Trussell, Lil' Hobo

📅 October 30, 2023 📍 Austin, TX Comedy Mothership 🎤 13 comedians ⭐ 4 regulars

Guests: Duncan Trussell · Lil' Hobo

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Lineup

1

Hans Kim

Regular

Set: Topical material about Israel-Palestine conflict mixed with self-deprecating Asian jokes and commentary on dangerous groups he offended.

Interview: Discussed theater tour in Ohio, meeting Tony's brother, visiting Tony's father's house, and collaborations with other comedians.

Bits:
  • I've been going to restaurants and not tipping to support Israel
  • Why are you having a music festival next to Gaza
Moments:
  • Hans opened the show as regular, hitting on multiple sensitive topics
2

Vandad K

Set: First-time bucket pull from Toronto with 12 years of stand-up experience; set focused on crude anal sex material and Canadian-Iranian military references.

Interview: Discussed 12 years doing stand-up mostly hosting shows in Toronto, military service as Canadian reserves in Military Intelligence, and vaccination status.

Bits:
  • Anal is a pain in the ass, not worth the stretch marks
  • Chickpea/garbanzo bean joke (stock joke) costs $500 in the mouth
Moments:
  • Lil' Hobo sang a song mocking the comedian's poor performance
  • Tony criticized set as being shitty as anal material
3

Cameron Illig

Set: Second appearance with material about awkwardness during intimate moments, asking girls 'Daddy' during sex, and watching relationship TV shows.

Interview: Discussed friendship with Cam Patterson from Orlando, moving to Austin together, working at golf course and gym, and avoiding unnecessary opening questions in sets.

Bits:
  • Girl called me Daddy, I said I'm your dad I'm so proud
  • Girl said 'come inside me' and I said I did two minutes ago
Moments:
  • Tony gave coaching note about avoiding opening questions
4

Steve Lee

Set: Golden ticket winner returning after years away in China; set about Halloween costume shopping, disabled ninja costume, and his family history in Asia.

Interview: Discussed moving back to China during pandemic, mother's Alzheimer's diagnosis, scam calls, Bitcoin investment, and VR usage during lockdown.

Bits:
  • My host father bought Godzilla costume, gave me disabled ninja outfit
  • Looks like Woody Allen in a microwave
Moments:
  • Golden ticket winner making first Austin appearance after years in China
  • Lil' Hobo kissed a female audience member at his request
  • Discussion of past Tony controversy and Steve's non-defense while in China
5

Tim Warner

Set: Returning regular with material about breakups, Special Olympics jokes, cancel culture, and darker observational humor; demonstrated significant improvement and sobriety.

Interview: Celebrated one year sober, discussed life improvement, Austin living, and road rage about slow drivers in left lane; offered shelter for Lil' Hobo.

Bits:
  • Breakups are competition to sleep with someone first, women always win
  • Special Olympics contestant showing up late twice called 'retardy'
  • Pot and kettle saying bad things when kettle leaves the room
Moments:
  • One year sobriety milestone celebrated on stage
  • Lil' Hobo made sexual advances and discussed HIV status
6

Sam Armfield

Set: First-time inside bucket pull from Maine; set featuring problematic material about Black people inability to swim, combined with Michael Jordan jokes.

Interview: From Maine, works as swim coach and HVAC auditor for Costco, uses psychedelics, has never done stand-up before; Tony provided coaching and gentle encouragement.

Bits:
  • I could beat Michael Jordan in swim race because he can't swim
  • Program to teach Black people to swim due to climate change
  • Black people retarded because of pools or watermelon
Moments:
  • First-time stand-up performer, listened to show daily while driving to work
  • Tony gently coached despite controversial material
8

David Lucas

Regular

Interview: Panel guest discussing comedy, Illuminati, sexuality jokes, weight, gym life, Halloween costumes, and demonstrating impressive vertical jump; lost 23 lbs by cutting sugar.

Moments:
  • Lil' Hobo demonstrated AI voice impressions of David Lucas
  • David showed vertical jump ability despite jokes about being unable to jump
9

Luke Newman

Set: Second appearance with material about smoking too much weed, driving with automatic doors, and drunk driving statistics (two DUIs out of thousands of times).

Interview: Works as door guy at Shakespeare's on 6th Street in Austin, moved from Oakland two years ago, bartends, has been doing comedy for six-seven years.

Bits:
  • Smoked too much weed, took five minutes to put pants on
  • Two DUIs out of thousands of times driving drunk, pretty good stats
Moments:
  • Second appearance after previous visit to Austin from Oakland
10

Anthony Pappaly

Set: First-time bucket pull with entirely porn-focused material about censored pornography titles, trade worker scenarios, and pizza-making; Indian heritage despite Italian name.

Interview: Indian married to Bariatric woman for 3 years, getting out of Coast Guard on Wednesday, worked on ships in public affairs, has done eight years of stand-up.

Bits:
  • Porn censors curse words - who is this for? Guy trades coming to house
  • Porn titles negative like guy and stepmom stuck under dryer after Hurricane Katrina
  • Learned trades from YouTube so guy won't come fix wife's appliances
Moments:
  • Tony and panel extensively discussed his racial identity and appearance
11

Justin Hedrick

Set: Second appearance with tight material about Black neighborhood baseball, stolen bases, orgy COVID exposure, 23andMe jumping, and transactional street interactions.

Interview: Attended open mics in Phoenix and Fort Worth over the month, Tony encouraged third appearance in couple months to build consistency.

Bits:
  • Grew up in Black neighborhood, dominated Little League, bases kept disappearing
  • 23andMe DNA test got jumped by car full of Mexicans
  • Homeless guy offered to let me spit on him for $20
Moments:
  • Tony requested he return for third consecutive appearance to build momentum
12

Uncle Lazer

Set: Returning performer with material about nephew's disturbing butter-stick masturbation behavior with neighbor's dog, and childhood masturbation methods using TV infomercials and HBO.

Interview: Discussed past trauma with vintage dolls, babysitter touching concerns, and Lil' Hobo's scary presence; light exchange about gang rape references.

Bits:
  • Nephew jerking off with butter sticks in lawn chair trying to get neighbor's dog
  • I jerked off to Girls Gone Wild infomercials and Real Sex HBO
  • Jerked off so much to Hey Arnold that I came thinking about football heads
Moments:
  • Long setup before punchline, Tony suggested trimming opening