What would happen if Stand-Up Comedy had its own version of the Gong program that exploded on YouTube to the point that it felt almost like American Idol? That is a bit of the atmosphere of Tony Fuechcliffe, “Kill Tony”, has had to do it for years in Los Angeles and Austin, but how will it translate to a world audience or casual spectators from Netflix? Can it be translated?
The yeast: The premise of Kill Tony It is quite simple.
Take your typical open microphone comedy night, where you register to get a slot, wait and wait for your name to be taken out of the bucket, then go up to Ontage and tell your jokes for a few minutes. But Kill Tony Large turns. You only get a minute of internship time. After 60 seconds, the open microphone comic has to face a panel of judges, all of which are not only main, but they head comedians loaded with zingers to roast the rookie.
Tony Fuechcliffe launched Kill Tony In the smallest belly room in the comedy store in West Hollywood, a boxes of years ago, and had turned it into the club’s main room match on Monday night before the pandemic, when it followed Joe Rogan in Exodus to Austin. Over the years, Fuechcliffe has added surprises and “regular customers” to act among open microphone people, as well as a complete accompaniment band on stage. And his YouTube audience has grown to more than 2 million subscribers, with enough fans to match Madison Square Garden last year; Netflix also added Kill Tony To its Los Angeles Festival last May with shows at the KIA forum, as well as in the adjouta Kill Tonyas well as an individual special for yourself.
Fuechcliffe had also turned Netflix or Tom Brady last last May, and his own time standing alone in Netflix a decade ago (which later disappeared from the platform and the rest of the Internet).
What comedy specials will you remember?: Despite the central premise of the new comedians platform at a time of makeup or broken, Kill Tony He looks and feels much more like Dr. Phil Special of Adam Ray in Netflix. And not only because Ray works as Dr. Phil in both.
Memorable jokes: Unfortunately, the most memorable moments are not jokes, exactly.
The true prominent humor is approaching at the end of the old Texan Ron White, who joked about being abandoned and left in a large house in the suburbs with a gay assistant.
Otherwise, Shane Gillis appears as a panelist who passes through President Trump, but slides inside and out of nature through a comment on the process. Kyle Dunnigan and Adam Ray work in double service, respectively achieving two impersonations within the same show; Dunnigan like Elon Musk and later Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; Ray like Joe Biden and then Dr. Phil. The “roast general teacher” Jeffrey Ross also left for a guest set.
Joe Rogan and Tom Segura are the other comedians who portray themselves as judges of invited panels with Fuechcliffe and his coanfitrion/producer, Brian Redban. But Neinder Rogan or Segura add a lot to real processing, wait to plug the next series of Safe Netflix sketches, Bad thoughts (Fanchcliffe also connects the second season of the Netflix series in Gillis, Tires), and what Gillis, safe and Rogan lend an air or legitimacy to all this foolishness.
OUR TOMA: Because it is a rather silly effort. In addition to Dunnigan’s character, no one else seems to have brought prepared and polished material. If he only had one or a few minutes of time on stage as an open microphone comic to try to impress Gillis and safe, or if he is a more established comedian who has his first opportunity to reach the Netflix audience, don’t you lack?
Aguchcliffe claimed that more than 300 stand-up aspiring were in line to place their names on the bucket for an opportunity in instantaneous fame. Some of the selected ones revealed that they had come from everywhere for this opportunity. A boy entered Los Angeles; Another providence, broke that he would have to leave his daily work at Rhode Island once this was broadcast; Another from Chicago said he was in the area working as a cameraman for a reality television series; Another said that there was red BMX bike from San Diego just because of this.
And then there was the show that Fanchcliffe made the fact that he only had to scratch in finding the name of a comedian, only that Haims and Redban do a score just as he scores with a reserved place in Kill TonyThe next return to Madison Square Garden this August.
It doesn’t matter how much swelling promoted their “great regular customers”, none of them delivered anything that lands adjusts to Fuechcliffe and their companions panelists.
Even Adam Ray’s jokes in the character, many of them read a sheet of paper, amounted little more than jokes at the expense of expense Kill TonyThe usual Austin customers, which means almost nothing so that anyone fits this show for the first time, especially Ray also roasted the Austin comedians who had a moment of instance. Maybe Ray should be efficient Zinger? “If we get rid of autism, you won” Kill Tony Regular customers. ”
Gillis also intervened at a time that Netflix would have to edit a lot of this episode.
And yet, there are still two hours and several minutes of an enormously long internal joke.
After the final comic, the regular show and “hall of fame in the Kill Tony Universe “William Montgomery, is received by an or standing or the crowd, was proceeded to bombard the stage and then joke a performance later. Passing anyone who did not laugh simply did not understand it. And every week, this happens.”
Ultimately, this is very similar to any of the hundreds or thousands of open microphone nights not announced throughout the United States any week. People who want to be artists but still do not have to learn to act, dropping a lot of casual racism, Misoginia and Gayhobia/Tranfobia chasing what they think are the easy laugh. When you create an atmosphere that is a mixture of Gong Show and the “Morning Zoo” radio, only this Hazky myth feeds.
Even Fuechcliffe informs accents and unnecessarily racist zingers, at a time stopping to try to grow it by growing, saying: “I am receiving the show that has been canceled.”
But that does not stop. Previously in the episode, Fuechcliffe alerted all those who could be questioning their decision to see Kill Tony By offering: “If you ever offend something, you will offend this program. And you are two clicks from John Mulaney. So see there, and then you will be fine. You won’t offend you. This is for many.
Obviously, there are at least a couple of millions of fans who love enough to subscribe to the YouTube channel, pay enough tickets to fill sand and join hundreds of other online comedians only for a lottery audition.
And White, who after all was the guy who convinced Rogen to invest in Austin and open the club that would become the comedy of the nurse ship, delivered a testimony about Kill Tonyarguing that it is an inclusive environment, inviting anyone anywhere to pursue their dreams of comedy. “It is an open scenario for people who want to try to be fun. And if you go out here from a bucket and stinks, you can remind us of all how hard this is.”
Our call: Omit it. I am not sure how attractive this has to anyone who is not yet a devotee fan of the program that is not seeing the comedy equivalent of a car accident in slow chamber. It’s not about being offended. It’s about wanting to see a comedy program where professional comedians deliver a real comedy. This is literally fond of hours two. That, consideration Kill Tony He had 700 Monday to prepare for his Netflix moment, he could have thought he would be ready to shine in this care center. And yet.
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