Kill Tony #635 — Duncan Trussell, Lil' Hobo
Guests: Duncan Trussell · Lil' Hobo
Lineup
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.
- I've been going to restaurants and not tipping to support Israel
- Why are you having a music festival next to Gaza
- Hans opened the show as regular, hitting on multiple sensitive topics
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.
- Anal is a pain in the ass, not worth the stretch marks
- Chickpea/garbanzo bean joke (stock joke) costs $500 in the mouth
- Lil' Hobo sang a song mocking the comedian's poor performance
- Tony criticized set as being shitty as anal material
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.
- 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
- Tony gave coaching note about avoiding opening questions
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.
- My host father bought Godzilla costume, gave me disabled ninja outfit
- Looks like Woody Allen in a microwave
- 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
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.
- 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
- One year sobriety milestone celebrated on stage
- Lil' Hobo made sexual advances and discussed HIV status
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.
- 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
- First-time stand-up performer, listened to show daily while driving to work
- Tony gently coached despite controversial material
Interview: Panel guest discussing comedy, Illuminati, sexuality jokes, weight, gym life, Halloween costumes, and demonstrating impressive vertical jump; lost 23 lbs by cutting sugar.
- Lil' Hobo demonstrated AI voice impressions of David Lucas
- David showed vertical jump ability despite jokes about being unable to jump
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.
- Smoked too much weed, took five minutes to put pants on
- Two DUIs out of thousands of times driving drunk, pretty good stats
- Second appearance after previous visit to Austin from Oakland
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.
- 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
- Tony and panel extensively discussed his racial identity and appearance
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.
- 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
- Tony requested he return for third consecutive appearance to build momentum
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.
- 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
- Long setup before punchline, Tony suggested trimming opening