Kill Tony #736 — James McCann, Dave Landau

Set: Sledge opened with crude material about legal services and girlfriend complaints, covering check engine lights and comparing her story length unfavorably to his own experiences.

Interview: Discussed his relationship with girlfriend who also does comedy, his moves to Austin, and various anecdotes about New York trips and museums. James McCann joked about his success potentially threatening the relationship.

Set: Juanita performed dark material about mental health, discussing her friend Sully's suicidality and making jokes about efficient methods. Material was edgy and controversial.

Interview: Discussed being transgender, family secrecy, Mexican heritage, cultural traditions like quinceañera, and her current living situation with a jiu-jitsu comic. Panel probed her transition and family dynamics.

Set: O'Neill performed comedy about generation softness, Tiger Woods' name, avoiding the n-word, and offensive comparisons about midgets. Set was polarizing with edgy material.

Interview: Discussed his background as open micer and mortgage company employee, his somewhat awkward social skills, dating preferences for steak and candy, and recent breakup with long-distance comic girlfriend.

Set: First-time stand-up Coughlin made jokes about Jill Biden as fake president and a story about her cleaner eating her salad, but forgot parts of material.

Interview: Discussed being first-time performer at Kill Tony, her parents' professions (pilot/travel agent), new job stringing rackets at tennis place, and previous screenwriting attempts.

Set: Mario discussed losing childhood heroes like Bill Cosby due to allegations, contrasting with how athletes like Kobe get passes due to success. Solid social commentary mixed with humor.

Interview: Discussed his 12 years in comedy, his unusual porn career making giantist content with his wife using green screen and video editing, now wife is behavioral therapist.

Set: Hans delivered tight material about politicians fleeing Texas, his Jewish girlfriend and mixed-race babies, trans fats, and autocorrect mishaps about his dad and ninjas.

Interview: Extensively discussed his love of giantist porn (Amazon Amanda), being tickled by James McCann, getting pulled over in Mississippi by Black officer, Starcraft 2 gaming, and recent tours.

Set: Isaac made dark jokes about girlfriend's diabetes, thanking military spouses, Hennessy made from grapes, and autocorrect confusion about ninjas and Pitbull.

Interview: Discussed being Marine Corps veteran with VA disability, selling Yu-Gi-Oh cards to survive, dog groomer girlfriend, and when asked what country to erase chose Israel.

Set: Seven-month veteran Augie performed loose material about catching girlfriend cheating, black guys, and babies, but set was disjointed and he lost his place multiple times.

Interview: Discussed moving from Seattle to Austin, working at thrift store, being Hispanic/Mexican, doing acid recently and seeing rats, drinking Jack and Coke, loves karaoke.

Set: John made absurd jokes about RFK Jr., food dyes and M&Ms, music biopics with ridiculous fake rapper names, and Matchbox 20's hindsight joke.

Interview: Two-year sober (not quite), works at restaurant, has roommates with bathroom, reveals old roommate Jake took four-hour bathroom sessions, drinks vodka, had long-term fuck buddy become juggling enthusiast.

Set: Alex discussed being single, missing doing chick stuff with ex, trying to get guy friends to go to farmers markets, and his uncomfortable experience at strip clubs.

Interview: Discussed roommate Chris (blind friend, golden ticket winner), being from Miami now in Austin, working as server at retirement community, loves Chipotle, kissed Elena from Michigan on stage.

Set: Jackson delivered explicitly sexual gay material with rapid-fire jokes about PTSD (Preconceived tendency to suck dick), sucking dick behind buses, and crude punchlines. Very aggressive comedy.

Interview: Discussed being 7-8 year comedy veteran from Houston, conservative Methodist parents with autistic dad, mom in cancer remission, dating a Nigerian woman pregnant due October, recently institutionalized.

Set: Frank opened with dark commentary about Black vs White people's reaction to plantations, then joked about white people wanting plantation weddings and Auschwitz weddings.

Interview: First-time performer, four years comedy from Baton Rouge, LSU journalism graduate, parents in real estate paid for college, currently delivers Amazon packages, watches football, makes gay song remixes.