Kill Tony #82 — Moshe Kasher, Michael Kosta
Guests: Moshe Kasher · Michael Kosta
Lineup
Set: Seven-month-old comic performing jokes on dead babies, gun legislation, and paraplegic comedy shows. Material was underdeveloped and rushed, delivered like reading from a script.
Interview: Tony and panel quizzed him on his experience level. Discussed his background in politics, jiu-jitsu training (blue belt), and performing frequency. Feedback focused on needing more stage presence and dynamic delivery.
- Paraplegic standing comedy show can be watched in one sitting.
- Gun legislation should be written only by those who've touched the subject.
- First performer got nervous during extended interview; panel noted he had good joke structure but lacked confidence.
Set: Four-year comic with complicated joke about losing friends to death in both cocaine dealing and comedy worlds, using wu-tang clan lyrics as the act-out. Panel struggled to understand the punchline.
Interview: Tony questioned whether the wu-tang lyrics were clear to the audience. Discussed his past selling cocaine, his four-year comedy tenure, and his son. Panel suggested modernizing references for broader appeal.
- Losing friends in cocaine game and comedy have similar tragic outcomes.
- Panel and Tony couldn't understand the core joke structure; wu-tang clan lyrics created confusion rather than clarity.
- Stretched defended his material but acknowledged it was complex for a one-minute format.
Set: Year-and-a-half comic with strong character work and comedic persona. Jokes about finding larger sexy underwear, being a young woman in WeHo gay community, and her depression material. Panel praised her stage presence and relatability.
Interview: Discussed her persona development, influences (possibly Molly Shannon/Cheri Oteri), move from Portland to LA, and her comedic instincts. Panel encouraged her to maintain her character work rather than drop it.
- Women's sports bra flipped upside down as creative underwear solution.
- Being a straight woman in WeHo gay community learning experience.
- WeHo is short for 'we're homosexual,' discovery in apartment hunting.
- Strong character performance with distinct persona that engaged the audience throughout.
- Panel praised her comedic instincts and encouraged her to develop her character further.
Set: Three-year comic with strong comedic fundamentals. Material about Walmart underwear selection, invented sports-bra-flipped-upside-down underwear solution, family trauma from trailer park, and recent losses making her feel ready for HBO special.
Interview: Discussed her Air Force background (built ammunition, not loaded it), VA disability, her recent losses (car repo, bike stolen, purse/iPad robbed). Panel encouraged her to develop military material further and suggested replacing 'gangbang' reference.
- Sports bra flipped upside down as solution for sexy underwear.
- Family trauma is long-term investment toward getting HBO special.
- Panel noted she had strong stage presence and comfort level, predicting she would 'destroy' in comedy.
- Tony suggested dropping 'gangbang' reference due to sexual assault problem in military.
Set: Comic from Knoxville discussing expensive California parking, homelessness living in Jeep, parking meter nightmares, and Thanksgiving with absent father. Set included crude sexual content about accidental ejaculation in pants while watching pornography at producer's house.
Interview: Extensive, unusual interview covering his homelessness, meeting a wealthy gay TV producer on Laurel Canyon, getting housed by him, explicit sexual encounter involving the producer and Dusty's ejaculation in pants. Tony questioned the veracity and consistency of the story.
- Parking costs expensive in California, waking up every two hours for meters.
- Cheapest rent is sleeping in car; no parking meters in that situation.
- Extended bizarre interview about alleged sexual encounter with gay TV producer became increasingly explicit and questionable in veracity.
- Tony and panel interrupted repeatedly to question the logic and details of an increasingly unbelievable story.
- Audience threw gum at Dusty during interview due to discomfort with explicit sexual content.
Set: Regular performer doing tight 60-second set. Material about people with mismatched names and faces; example about friend named Hope who looked like 'disgrace' and ate dick-shaped foods. Efficient joke structure with strong punch.
Interview: Panel discussed extending the bit with more name/appearance mismatches. Feedback focused on developing the premise further with additional examples and stronger names that fit the pattern.
- Friend named Hope looked more like 'disgrace,' ate everything shaped like dicks.
- Kim executed a tight 57-second set, demonstrating professional delivery and efficient joke structure as a regular.
Set: Regular performer doing material about having a full-body rash during holiday season. Jokes about scratching while Feliz Navidad plays, food allergies causing rashes, sexual transmission of rashes, Magic Castle reference. Delivered with frustrated, cranky persona.
Interview: Discussed her full-body rash (possibly food allergy), allergic reactions from sexual contact, past experience at comedy club in Grand Rapids. Panel advised her on delivery of the Feliz Navidad repetition and encouraged her to pursue alternative comedy venues.
- Full-body rash while Feliz Navidad plays on loop during drive to show.
- Food allergy from peanuts causing rash when squirted on sexually.
- Woman with rash walked out of curtained area at comedy club after sex.
- Panel praised her honesty and bold material choice despite physical discomfort.