KT #775 - JOE ROGAN + THAT MEXICAN OT

First bucket pull of the night; about 11 months into standup and doing six to eight open mics a week in Austin. Works as night crew manager at an H-E-B and lives alone on 41st Street with a white lab named Nala after ten months in an RV. Had been on the show once before in September 2024; told the panel his mother died the same night that episode aired, and mentioned he had just bought a cheap handgun with the serial numbers filed off.

36 years old, born and raised in Las Vegas, and said he had done roughly ten open mics specifically to prepare for this shot. Works as a certified nurse assistant for one in-home client and supports his retired mother; primarily a musician, a bassist and vocalist of about 13 years fronting a solo project called Clarence and the Clam Claps because he cannot find a drummer. The interview turned to his ten years on meth starting at 15 and quitting on his own without rehab in July 2014.

Filipino-Canadian from Toronto, about four years into standup, who moved to Austin in April and had signed up every week since, roughly his tenth attempt. Performed in a traditional wrap garment plus a hoodie, which drove most of the interview. Also an actor with SAG credits (he name-checked a Netflix series and an Emmy-nominated show), a former Muay Thai champion who does boxing instruction, and has a girlfriend back in Toronto who is a head chef at a Japanese restaurant.

About eight years in comedy across El Paso, Austin and Taylor, Texas, and planning to move to Seattle to escape the heat. Bartends at Live Oak Brewing. Currently getting divorced after four years of marriage and eight years together; the interview dug into the open/poly arrangement that ended it. Tony brought out Heidi to role-play a date with him so the panel could watch him fail to close.

Celebrity drop-in rather than a weekly Kill Tony regular; brought out as a surprise after the word 'poly' came up repeatedly in the previous interview. Flubbed his first set badly, asked to be re-introduced, and did a second take. Talked about his mother Mitzi Shore and the bar downstairs named for her, a second Richard Simmons short film, and a long-in-progress ten-part documentary series featuring the late Bob Saget.

Returning regular, introduced as the former Dark Storm of Atlanta, now the Dark Storm of Austin and the last black Shogun, in his first appearance after spending 23 days in a Japanese jail. His set and the interview were almost entirely about that stretch: 24-hour lockdown, food, reading 17 English books including the Bible, and a run of self-deprecating jokes. Thanked Tony and Joe Rogan on air for arranging a lawyer for him while he was locked up.

First time on the show, already famous to the audience as the object of Martin Malloy's on-air crush. From Cleveland, about six years in comedy, working a comedy history bus tour called the Funny Bus. Her set was built around Duane syndrome in her right eye. The interview ran long on her eBay side business, inherited from her old track coach's late husband, selling militaria and war action figures including Nazi figures, plus a story about an exorcism her church performed on her at 18.

Performed in a heavy Russian accent and turned out to be Mexican, born in San Antonio to a Russian father who emigrated after the Soviet collapse and a Mexican mother; the band vouched for his Spanish when Tony tested him. Said it was his second time doing standup in ten years and that he does electrical work. Married to a fellow comedian. Pitched an elaborate bit about an advertising agency employing homeless people and closed the interview with a Patrick Warburton impression.

Six years in comedy out of Lubbock and Austin, and says he has signed up roughly 215 times over four and a half years without getting pulled. Laid off on January 30 in an AI-related cut from a project coordinator job doing IT and AV installs; had $43 to his name with $1,600 rent due, and was counting on a $1,500 sperm-screening bonus the next day. Set was about his 6'5" autistic brother Zack. Also paints Warhammer 40k figurines and has had ten concussions.

First time on the show after signing up sporadically for over four years, more than 50 times; performs from a wheelchair and built his set around it. Paralyzed in a single-car accident at 24 after falling asleep driving; now 48, about three years into comedy, all of it in Austin. Talked about Texas football games, a Bumble bit where he only sends photos from the waist up, and the worst set of his life at a local club. Heidi carried him down the stairs afterward.

Final bucket pull of the night. 28 years old, originally from San Jose, California, moved to Austin three years ago after a five-gram mushroom trip told him to, and has done all three years of his standup here. DoorDashes with a 4.8 rating and works rave security on the side; splits a four-bedroom apartment with four roommates. The interview closed on his admission that he has had chlamydia eight times.

Closed the show as the marquee regular, with a tight joke-after-joke minute that Tony and Joe Rogan explicitly held up as the counterexample to the rest of the night's rambling sets. Tony noted he and Dedric are the only two who have to write a fresh minute every week. Plugged upcoming Kill Tony dates with him on the bill: Madison Square Garden on August 7 and 8, the MGM Dolby Live theater in Las Vegas in November, and New Year's Eve in Austin, plus his own San Diego run with Redban.