Kill Tony #750 — Lance Armstrong, Matt McCusker, Tim Butterly
Guests: Lance Armstrong · Matt McCusker · Tim Butterly
Lineup
Set: Aya discusses selling edibles, lucid dreaming instead of vacationing, and dating standards. She jokes about a guy buying her plan B as a sign of being a good provider.
Interview: Aya talks about cutting her hair at a Uzbekistani barber for $60, getting a weird haircut, and discovering she might be a lesbian due to paper cuts on her hands.
- Forgot she was selling drugs and ran a nonprofit instead
- Guy buying plan B as sign he'd be amazing provider
- Golden ticket winner who goes first in episode
- Tony books her on Secret Show Thursday during interview
Set: Remy discusses being a southern Arab from Oklahoma City, his parents' cultural background, and makes jokes about baseball in the Middle East and Indian bobblehead jokes.
Interview: Tony questions whether Remy finished his sandlot joke. Remy talks about being from Oklahoma City, being a brown guy there, his Uber and comedy work, and his large Millie Vanilli Facebook group.
- Arabic pronouns are hijab
- Bobblehead night in India sounds like Hindu girl going down
- Back-to-back Prize Picks sponsored Indian jokes
Set: Lino discusses a homeless man with an extremely large penis who he saw on the street, describing it as helicopter-like and so large it powered the Midwest.
Interview: Lo reveals he has a clubfoot and is Puerto Rican from Mississippi. He works at Vulcan Gas Company and a weed shop in a bus that got robbed. He's been doing standup 4-5 years and his father was murdered.
- Homeless man's penis so big he should have a mansion
- Penis helicopter could power the Midwest
- Lo gets medium-sized joke book, upgrading from small from previous appearance
Set: Joe discusses growing up poor with parents using phrases like 'National Leftover Hamburger Helper Day' and a father who offered to shoot the family dog rather than pay for euthanasia.
Interview: Joe recently moved to Clearwater, Florida where his wife does medical residency. He works help desk IT and does standup. He treats supporting his wife as a 401k investment.
- Dad offered to shoot family dog rather than pay $45 vet
- Girl on Sixth Street with colostomy bag not 'hot girl tummy'
- First time on Kill Tony, gets positive response
Set: Sir Winston Pickles, a dark clown character, performs dark jokes about hitting an old lady, Christmas suicidality, drag racing in heels, and using Luminol spray instead of Christmas lights.
Interview: Sir Winston discusses his clown makeup routine, wearing it daily from noon, doing DoorDash in makeup, and his ex-wife situation. He answers that he's no longer married.
- Hit a dear old lady instead of a deer
- Only needs Luminol instead of Christmas lights due to murders
- Character performs regular comedy spots while in full clown makeup
Set: Taylor discusses Obama's failed re-election slogan opportunities and explains vasectomy procedure, joking that reabsorbing semen is 'gay' and not in 'God's country.'
Interview: Taylor is a PA school graduate working in Miami ER. He was recently married after meeting in PA school. He discusses a patient who came in thinking she had UTI but discovered she could squirt.
- Obama's 'Once You Go Black' would have opened door for Trump
- Vasectomy involves reabsorbing semen, which is 'gay'
- Lance Armstrong asks if squirt is piss
Set: Michael discusses not being Muslim despite looking it, having a very white mother and stepfather Mark who wears jean shorts and plugs his nose in water.
Interview: Michael has 13 years of standup experience, is mixed race, recently got engaged and his fiancée is pregnant (due February). He runs a social media channel documenting ordering the same thing at restaurants.
- White stepfather Mark wears jean shorts and plugs his nose
- Doesn't use washcloth in shower, bar to hand
- Matt McCusker compliments Michael's stage presence after 13 years
Set: Dedrick tells a story about growing up in Atlanta ghetto where decorations and presents were stolen before Christmas, but his uncle saved the day by bringing stolen items from elsewhere.
Interview: Dedrick is from Atlanta and does material about the ghetto. He does pop punk Christmas songs and is performing a sold-out Christmas show at the Earls in Atlanta.
- Grandma told him Santa wasn't real after theft destroyed hope
- Uncle Chris stole decorations and presents from another house for them
- Authentic and powerful storytelling impresses the panel
- Brings out homemade laminated concealed carry permit as prop
Set: Lorenzo discusses not donating to thrift stores due to poverty, growing up poor with his grandmother, and reusing grocery bags as trash cans.
Interview: Lorenzo is 23, been doing standup 2 years, from Alaska. His Dominican father was deported after committing crimes/scams and died of pneumonia. His mother is still on drugs. He cuts homeless people's hair for social media content.
- Too poor to donate to thrift stores, would see hand-me-downs
- Tony upgrades Lorenzo's joke book from small to medium
Buffy
Set: Buffy performs a short set with 2-3 jokes about being called from Whoville, dating older men, and a boyfriend who was after 'one thing' or 'two things.'
Interview: Buffy was on the show before. She admits to drinking (blew 0.15 BAC on breathalyzer). She's a stunt driver from the show previously, got offered ski trips from men in DMs after mentioning not wanting older men.
- Guy who forgot birthday, ghosted, said she was loud in bed
- Breathalyzer test shows she blew 0.15, twice legal limit
Ron White
Set: Ron discusses California's beauty resulting from selective breeding of attractive movie stars, contrasting it with Kansas where ugly people allegedly stayed and interbred, creating 'ugly quitters.'
- California beautiful from selective breeding of movie stars' descendants
- Kansas settlers gave up on Oregon Trail, interbred poorly
- Ron White guest spot, demonstrates elite comedic craftsmanship
Pauly Shore
Set: Pauly Shore discusses doing acid in a driverless car at the Sphere in Vegas, giving the self-driving car two stars. He compares sober people and drug users among his friends.
- Doing acid at Sphere in Vegas is 'gay,' did it in Waymo
- Sober friend can't have wine with dinner without relapsing
- Guest performance spot, comedy royalty
Liv Taylor
Set: Liv jokes about looking like she never turns down Subway footlong, hates Subway despite Jared Fogle losing weight, and makes dark jokes about child abuse in reference to his crimes.
Interview: Liv is a vet tech working in emergency vet medicine. She's a widow (boyfriend died in car accident), works with animals doing anesthesia. She discusses surgical complications and high suicide rates in veterinary medicine.
- Jared Fogle lost 250 lbs by eating Subway and not fucking kids
- Discusses dog clitoris discovery for first time at vet clinic
Ian Sharp
Set: Ian performs bit about free speech restrictions, specifically the Arnold Palmer drink name and 'N-word water' wordplay, claiming anti-joke about not calling anybody anything.
Interview: Ian was on the show before in a turbo round. He's been doing standup 14 years from Chattanooga, Tennessee. He works IT tech support and plays D&D, paints miniatures, plays Warhammer.
- Can't say Arnold Palmer drink name, plays on N-word
- Tim Butterly compliments his set after performing