Kill Tony #741 — Roseanne Barr, Pauly Shore
Guests: Roseanne Barr · Pauly Shore
Lineup
Set: Jack discusses moving in with his girlfriend and cultural differences between LA and Texas masculinity, Jewish indecisiveness, and gender identity.
Interview: Jack disclosed his recent sold-out show in Reno, discussed his mother's criticism of his appearance, and revealed she has anorexia.
- Moving to Texas with girlfriend requiring him to be more of a man, but LA raised him with gay people
- Jews are indecisive people; even our name is Jewish
- Golden ticket winner; Roseanne provided detailed coaching about accessing deeper anger
Set: Ashley discusses dating app culture, true crime obsession, and closing with a controversial statement about Israel.
Interview: Ashley revealed 6 months of standup experience, works in social media for a decade, watches multiple TV shows simultaneously, and recently ended a 13-year friendship.
- Love is Blind creates lovebombing before first dates via voice memos
- Bad dates feel like episodes of I Survived TV show
- Roseanne gave harsh feedback about memorization, delivery, and respecting comedy craft
- Pauly Shore ripped up her notecards on stage
Set: Brian discusses a friend's tragedy and subsequent musical success, making dark jokes about killing friends for fame and converting to K2.
Interview: Brian revealed he was recently laid off from hospitality, has $1,200 saved with $600 rent and $900 monthly VA assistance, and became known for a viral moment singing with the band.
- Friend's overdose was tragic but now sounding better; kill all his friends for chart success
- Considered converting to Islam but converting to K2 instead; homeless people look happy on drugs
- Roseanne and Redband gave standing ovation, rare moment in 800+ episodes
- Discussed viral moment from previous appearance that led to 6 months of party invitations and drug use
Set: Phoenix discusses turning 29, birthday celebrations, beauty and physical attributes, oral sex benefits for jawline, and a recent accident during intimate activity.
Interview: Phoenix is a trans woman (transitioned medically 3 years ago, socially since 14), been doing standup for 3 years, in 6-year relationship with crane operator boyfriend, hosts Dallas open mic and drag shows.
- Broke nail giving handjob in back alley during Dallas trip
- Sucking dick is great for your jawline; father calls every other birthday
- Father watches show religiously, recognized her on first episode, has since distanced due to her being transgender
- Directly addressed father on stage about growing transition
Set: Tristan discusses having two cats including a Puerto Rican cat with violent tendencies, makes wordplay about black cats not paying rent, prison references.
Interview: Golden ticket winner from 6 years ago, moved to NYC 3 years ago, 4-year relationship, performs at The Stand comedy club, considering moving back to Austin.
- Got Puerto Rican cat; she rolls arms when meowing, long nails, prone to violence
- Black cat doesn't pay rent; he's in prison
- Golden ticket winner from 6 years ago (won day before 21st birthday, cashed in next day)
- Roseanne affirmed his strong comedic progress and sharpness
Set: Austin discusses moving to Texas, father wanting him to get a gun, reluctance due to mental health struggles, height and body as home defense, sleep apnea.
Interview: Austin works at Sunset Strip comedy club, is 6'4" and 300+ lbs, has severe sleep apnea (15 stops per night), uses CPAP machine, recently left truck driving, single.
- Has body of Shrek and face of toddler; scarier home defense than a gun
- Brings up January 6th when nervous on dates; keeps failing at dating
- Pauly Shore invited him to open in Dallas; Roseanne praised his likability and potential
- Tony recruited him for Thursday secret show despite working at the club
Set: Blake discusses his appearance (ZZ Top, Duck Dynasty), turning 40, his beard attracting women with drug addictions, mother wanting him to turn hat around, shaving.
Interview: Blake is 5-6 years into standup (took break), moved from Bay Area to Houston for cloud engineering job, laid off 2 weeks ago, collects sports cards (baseball/wrestling).
- Looks like ZZ Top or Duck Dynasty brother; beard attracts Oxycontin women
- Woman grabbed and kissed him by beard without consent; she was bigger than him
- Tony made extended OJ Simpson joke tangent involving Shane Gillis and Bill Clinton
- Tried to buy ambulance with VA loan after Marines; 'Bang Ambulance' idea
Set: Eric opens with dark sexual premise about cancer patients, discusses booty fetishes and generational differences, irrational fear of corn in urethra, offensive India joke.
Interview: Eric is from Connecticut, started standup few years ago (took break due to bad promoter experience), moved to Austin 8 months ago, been back at it few months, works for FedEx.
- Likes fucking cancer patients because don't have to pull out
- Irrational fear of corn stuck in pee hole after anal sex
- Worked as lifeguard at 50 Cent's party for Reverend Jesse Jackson; kids drowning every 30 seconds
- Roseanne praised dark premises but critiqued lack of punchline delivery
Set: Winston performs in whiteface makeup, opens with Ed Gein lampshade joke about wife/kids murders, neighbor chainsaw murder, school zone speeding joke, dyslexia joke blowback.
Interview: Winston has 6 years standup, 10 years in whiteface, former coal miner, sand blaster, Premier League soccer photographer, uses waterproof makeup, avoids clown fetish emails.
- More fuckers on I35 than in Ed Gein's lampshade collection
- Neighbor asked to borrow chainsaw day after murdering wife/kids with chainsaw; he lied about owning one
- Redband asked smart question about how he removes waterproof makeup
- Roseanne praised originality of dark clown character with serial killer jokes