KT #755 - DR PHIL (ADAM RAY) + SAL VULCANO, + GREG FITZSIMMONS

Opened the show instead of closing it; introduced as the all-time appearance record holder and a living Kill Tony Hall of Fame member, with nicknames including the Memphis Strangler and the Titan of Tacoma. Said he has been in a bad funk but has started rowing again, roughly 65 miles over six days. Interview centered on his thrifted vintage 1990s vest that the panel said looked like nachos.

First bucket pull of the night; a returning performer, not a first-timer. Says he is 5'1" (5'3" in his shoes), went bald at 19, and is a Marine Corps veteran who served in an engineer company. Interview turned into an on-stage weigh-in against Redban, where he came in at 193 pounds; earned a medium joke book.

Returning performer with roughly 12 years in comedy overall, six of them in standup after starting in musical comedy. Played an improvised original song on guitar built around his 'buckle up' catchphrase, which Sal Vulcano had just critiqued. Edits wedding videos and makes giantess porn with his tall wife; received a big joke book.

60-year-old first-timer who opened by announcing he was on a heavy dose of mushrooms, which derailed the entire interview. A longtime commercial construction builder who went broke and decided to try standup; lost 80 pounds last year and has three grandkids. Got into Kill Tony after working as a background actor on a Roseanne-related show.

Second appearance on the show, with a set built entirely on a Tesla and n-word wordplay premise. Moved to Austin in July from Boise, Idaho, where he says he was the blackest person there; he is half black and half Puerto Rican. Works a remote $20-an-hour document-checking job he admits he does not understand, which the panel compared to Severance.

Brought up as a weekly regular to reset the room after four rough bucket pulls, billed as the dark storm of Atlanta. New minute about hating Waymos, built on a true story of passing out drunk in one in Tempe, Arizona, and being woken by police. Tony praised it as two minutes of material with punchlines throughout.

One-word stage name spelled out on air as T-A-I-J-A and pronounced Tai-J. Second time on the show, and the night of the taping marked exactly three years doing standup. Works as a union electrician on industrial data-center jobs, gets up at 5 a.m. for ten-hour days; has a white father and a black mother. Earned a big joke book.

First time on the show, about two and a half years into standup. Originally from Dallas, he has been in Austin roughly a month and is living at the ARCH homeless shelter, having left a stable situation to chase comedy; he turned 29 in January. Unemployed since December after losing a Spectrum customer-service job, which led to a roleplay bit with Adam Ray's Dr. Phil.

43 years old and has been 'selectively chasing' standup since last February, mostly chasing a bucket pull rather than doing many open mics. Sal Vulcano called his necrophilia-themed set the most dense minute ever done on the show. Works in marine construction dredging beaches, largely in New Jersey under government contracts; BHC is a longtime online handle he said stands for 'big hater company'.

Third time on the show, and admitted to drinking a pitcher of tequila pineapple beforehand because he did not expect to be pulled. Works at a smoke shop and also unloads shipping containers of fireworks in Alaska. Revealed he recently separated from his girlfriend; signs off his sets with the tag 'Sorry, Grandma'.

Kill Tony debut, and Tony called him the most interesting bucket-pull interview of the night. Born in Texas but has spent the last 15 years abroad in the Mediterranean, mainly Greece and Israel, and now lives in China; he is 34 and works as an English teacher. Speaks Hebrew plus some Greek and Turkish, and said his name is the equivalent of Zion, so the spelling may be Zion or Tzion.

Final bucket pull of the night and a returning performer, back after roughly two years; Tony spelled her name out on air as L-E-Y-L-A I-N-G-A-L-L-S. Based out of her mother's house in Ohio but describes herself as a vagabond travelling to shows and staying in Airbnbs. Long interview about funding her comedy through OnlyFans, where she says she is in the top 0.51 percent of creators; Adam Ray offered her a guest spot at the Mothership that weekend.