KT #753 - JIM BREUER - SAM TALLENT

First bucket pull of the night and visibly nervous, with a set built around her late deadbeat father. From Robstown, Texas, doing standup since the pandemic and performing monthly at The Annex in Corpus Christi. Works as a cosmetology instructor at a beauty school. Tony joked the name translates to 'Tina the kitchen,' which supports the La Cocina spelling.

Goes by a single-word stage name. From Paris, Texas, five years in comedy and his third time on the show. Air Force veteran who works as an ironworker, works 58 hours a week while doing comedy five nights a week, and was interviewed at length about a run of catfish dates.

A familiar face pulled from the bucket with a new minute, and Tony called it his best set since he started. Based in San Antonio, where he was recently made a door guy at the Riot Riverwalk. A recovering addict who says standup replaced drugs; married 13 years with kids.

Claims almost 30 years in standup, originally from St. Louis and now living in Austin near Ben White and Banister, doing up to five to seven open mics a day. Works at a P. Terry's; his wife is an Australian musician who performs as Mia Muze. The interview went badly off the rails and Tony repeatedly had to refocus him.

26 years old with only one year in standup, and Tony praised the set as the most polished and well-written of the night. Grew up outside Washington, DC, moved to Austin after college to be an independent filmmaker, and now waits tables. Was a backup high school quarterback behind Caleb Williams.

Weekly regular introduced as the Dark Storm of Atlanta, with a new minute about his fear of flying and his first private jet ride on Tony's plane. Tony held the set up as the difference between bucket pulls and regulars. Mentioned his recent Netflix debut sitting in the top two and declared Austin his new hometown.

Second appearance on the show and a much stronger set than his first. From Sudan, he arrived in the US in early 2020 on a diversity visa lottery green card, spent three years in Arizona and about a year in Austin, and is roughly four years into comedy. Formerly in sales, now trades stocks, and earned a big joke book.

From Lake Charles, Louisiana with about nine years in standup, and this was his first time on the show after driving in with friends. Works as an audio engineer at a sound company and plays bass. Talked about eight years of daily cocaine use while working fine dining, and has a girlfriend of four years.

A returning performer whose set leaned on being on the autism spectrum and who Tony said went backwards compared to prior appearances. Describes himself as a mathematician. The interview was dominated by a long account of a three-night run in Las Vegas that ended in a threesome.

Submitted under the character name Sheikh Ahmed, which Tony did not recognize, and performed the whole minute in costume and in character. Mid-interview it emerged the performer is a woman Tony called Sherry, who is Iranian and was trying out a Saudi male character; her surname is never said on mic. She had run the same character at Banana Phone the night before.

Final bucket pull of the night and his third Mothership appearance over the past year. Originally from Denton, Texas; his father died three years ago and he recently came out of a depression and a long-distance on-again relationship. Tony called the resulting Thanksgiving story one of the greatest interviews of the night.

Closed the show as the all-time appearances and interviews record holder and Kill Tony Hall of Famer, billed as the Memphis Strangler, the vanilla gorilla and the big red machine. Said he had fallen off his rowing machine habit in favor of marathon video game sessions and collecting vintage jigsaw puzzles. Turning 39 on January 26.