Kill Tony #743 — Joe DeRosa, Luis J Gomez

Set: Josh opened with adoption jokes and impressions, including a riff on being an LGBT MLK impression. He discussed his work with mentally handicapped orphans in Peru and various family backgrounds (Black, Spanish, Native American, Jewish, mob connections).

Interview: Tony and the panel roasted Josh's unusual facial features and family history. Josh revealed he's adopted, spent time in Peru on a missions trip, and recently moved from Switzerland where he'd been doing comedy for seven years.

Set: Sarah performed jokes about Whimo cars, bragging about Black friends, animal impressions (nasty giraffe who is Taylor Swift), and demonstrated her signature horse noise.

Interview: Tony praised Sarah's growth as a comedian and complimented her Taylor Swift joke. Discussion covered her coffee addiction affecting her digestion, her background with ESL enrollment fraud, her Panamanian mother, and her first kiss (forcefully with Michael Gonzalez on Kill Tony).

Set: Thomas joked about his new orange cat Macaroni (named after his favorite necklace), how he raises her like he was raised (telling her he wanted a dog), her excessive vomiting, and the distinctive pre-vomit meow sounds.

Interview: Thomas revealed he's from Nebraska, moved to Miami four years ago for modeling work, then to Austin three months ago. He currently works for CPS as a redactive clerk reviewing foster care records. Discussion covered his past modeling jobs, being shirtless at work, and his friends-with-benefits arrangement.

Set: Priya joked about her Indian mother's racism (demanding American customer service), being slapped by her mother in a police precinct, the mother's objection to her wedding bangs, and described wedding day Google searches to confirm Indian bride traditions.

Interview: Priya shared she's been doing standup six years, is between New York and Austin, doesn't currently work, does background acting and man-on-the-street content. She discussed her recent dating life, including a 14-year marriage to a Russian crypto bro, and her current relationship with an older Black man with gun charges.

Set: Davey joked about his Chinese immigrant lesbian friend asking what a Negroni is and if it's a drink for Black people, using it to set up a bit about drink names and Hennessy.

Interview: Davey revealed he almost got arrested at the airport with a gun in his backpack, was fined $1,500 instead of $10k because a TSA agent recognized him from Kill Tony. He discussed his past relationship with a Latina woman who stabbed him and died of cancer.

Set: Ahren's set consisted of attempting crowd work by inserting placeholder text into his interactions with audience members, a self-aware deconstruction of generic crowd work comedy. He discussed his mother's love of Tylenol.

Interview: Ahren revealed he's opening for Steve-O on tour, got a new sleeve tattoo and gold chain, tattooed Steve-O's assistant using a tattoo gun duct-taped to his prosthetic hand, and claimed to have gotten a full-back tattoo recently in a hotel. He mentioned having a fever and using Talkspace therapy.

Set: Sodapop's set was largely incoherent, mixing references to Boston and Knoxville, making comments about Puerto Ricans, discussing his schizophrenia diagnosis, and integrating Talkspace advertisement. He struggled with mic technique and delivery.

Interview: Sodapop is 35 years old, from Orlando, Florida, recently hired and fired from Lucky Duck club. He claims to read books like 'We Who Wrestle with God' inspired by Jordan Peterson, and is developing multi-personality character work for his comedy.

Set: Dedrick opened with high-energy Atlanta storytelling about Sonic, uncle with stolen freeze plugs from Target causing $10k light bill, moved to Austin to 'take down Tesla,' made observations about white people and robots/Terminators.

Interview: Dedrick has been doing comedy 12 years, signed up for the show 39 times before getting pulled, works at Sunset, headlining for 10 years, has an hour-and-a-half set, based in Atlanta but recently moved to Austin.

Set: Alessio joked about being Italian-Jewish (no salami skin), his grandfather's Nazi service in WWII and potential war crimes, the grandfather's gaslighting and lack of denial about atrocities.

Interview: Alessio has been doing standup two years in Manchester, UK, was born in Genoa Italy, moved to Manchester at age six due to his father's job. He works in marketing for comedians and has visited America multiple times.

Set: Buffy opened with dark family trauma jokes about three generations of pedophiles, Mayflower vs 'Dflower' reference, ran out of material so started dating, observation that good lovers aren't necessarily boyfriends (could be grandpa), family 'benefits' joke about oral/anal instead of dental.

Interview: Buffy is a stunt driver for six years, formerly precision driver for six years before that, moved to Austin a year ago, did standup in LA for six years. She discussed dating history including a 21-year-old Latino boyfriend at age 43, looking for active partners, and a group experience with four Canadian guys.