Richie Zarvin

Final bucket pull of the night. Age 35, turning 36 that Saturday, originally from Detroit, moved to Austin a week after Thanksgiving and has about nine months in standup. Executive sous chef at Frank and Margie's under multiple-Michelin-starred chefs, which Tony was impressed by. His set was about a Tinder match who disclosed a terminal cancer diagnosis and his pitch for a dating app for the terminally ill. The interview turned into the most serious stretch of the episode: nearly a year sober after more than ten inpatient rehabs, counselors who told him to give up, homelessness in Tucson, cocaine and later heroin at 31, and the morning he woke up to a room full of passed-out people and a stripper who had taken his stimulus check. Name spelling is the weakest in this file.