Dubbed by many as the number one podcast in the world, KILL TONY is a weekly live comedy show/podcast recorded live from Austin, Texas and the world, with your hosts Tony Hinchcliffe and Brian Redban.
Rising stars and current comedic sensations regularly perform in front of a live audience along with a jury of their peers highlighted by Redban and Hinchcliffe.
This week’s episode features stand-up comedians Pauly Shore, Erik Griffin, Paul Deemer, D Madness, Michael A. Gonzales, Hans Kim, David Lucas, William Montgomery, John Deas, Matthew Muehling, Jules Durel, Joe White, Kristie Nova, & Yoni.
Tony Hinchcliffe: Tony Hinchcliffe is a touring stand up comedian based out of Los Angeles. Tony is also the host of the popular live podcast Kill Tony which also travels internationally as well as being based out of The Comedy Store in L.A. In 2020, he began hosting an online course on “Roasting” called RoastMaster Class, drawing from his over decade long knowledge of writing for 8 Comedy Central Roasts and performing on roasts and roast battles, both educational and entertaining, the “RoastMaster Class” started as just a parody video and then became a real project that he began to enjoy doing, thus he released it upon the debut of his Patreon. Tony also tours internationally with Joe Rogan and can be seen frequently on the JRE the most popular podcast in the world. Tony is a regular at every major club in LA and headlines regularly at every major club as well as some of the finest theaters in America, Australia, and Europe.
Brain Redban: Brian Redban is a Columbus, Ohio native and founder of the Deathsquad Podcast Network. A nationally touring comedian, Redban performs at comedy clubs across the US. He appears weekly on the Kill Tony podcast, The Ice House Chronicles and is notably known for his role as producer and co-host of The Joe Rogan Experience broadcasting to more than 1 million loyal fans each week. Called “The future of funny” by Culture Magazine, Brian is one of the fastest rising comedians today. Featured in the movies The Culture High and Doug Benson’s Chronic-Con, Brian can also be seen in a recent issue of Rolling Stone. Brian Redban launched his own new podcast WHAT BRIAN REDBAN DO in 2016.
This Week’s Special Guest:
Pauly Shore: Pauly Shore tasted super-stardom in 1990 when his MTV show “Totally Pauly” hit the airwaves to major fan approval. The show ran for six years, leading Pauly to a one-hour HBO comedy special, “Pauly Does Dallas,” and starring roles in films like “Jury Duty,” “In the Army Now,” “Bio-Dome,” “Encino Man,” “Son In Law,” and “A Goofy Movie.”
Pauly went on to produce and star in several of his own projects, including “Pauly Shore is Dead,” as well as the comedy specials “Vegas is My Oyster,” on Showtime starring Andy Dick, Tom Green, Bobby Lee, and “Pauly-Tics,” on Showtime starring Herman Cain and Larry King. In 2014, he released “Pauly Shore Stands Alone,” a true-life road documentary that follows Pauly as he performs in obscure towns throughout Wisconsin while dealing with his personal life. It appeared on Showtime and is available on Amazon Prime and YouTube.
Other recent projects include Adam Sandler’s “Sandy Wexler,” the short film “Sin City Psycho” Dreamworks’ animated “The Big Trip,” Lionsgate’s animated film “The Little Penguin: Pororo’s Dinosaur Island Adventure” and the indie feature “How it Ends” starring Whitney Cummings, Olivia Wilde, Nick Kroll and more. Pauly also starred in the movie “Guest House,” which is currently streaming on Netflix (digital and on-demand). In 2022, Pauly voices characters in Dreamworks’ “Pinocchio: A True Story” and “My Sweet Monster.”
Pauly released a series of video interviews in 2017 called the “Pauly Shore Podcast Show.” His guests included Judd Apatow, Iliza Shlesinger, Bob Saget and more. Pauly also hosted a podcast called “Pauly Shore’s Random Rants” which you can find on Bill Burr’s All Things Comedy, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and YouTube.
Pauly also creates fun content for his fans, including a five minute workout show called Sweatin with the Wiez, recreation of iconic movie scenes called “Classic Scenes from Classic Movies” and music videos with his band ‘Pauly Shore and The Crustys – all of which can be seen on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok.
Apart from actively touring the country with his stand-up comedy, Pauly is working on a documentary of his life that spans the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s along with a memoir called “How’d You Expect Me to Turn Out” and a one man show about his life entitled “Stick with the Dancing: Funny Stories From my Childhood”.
Erik Griffin: Erik Griffin is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actor best known for playing Montez Walker on Comedy Central’s Workaholics. Griffin’s mother enrolled him in a stand-up comedy class at UCLA Extension when he expressed interest in becoming a comedian. The class was taught by the late Sandi C. Shore, daughter of The Comedy Store founders Sammy Shore and Mitzi Shore, and at the end, allowed students to perform in a showcase at The Comedy Store. He recorded a half-hour special for Comedy Central in 2013. Later that year, he released his first stand-up album, Technical Foul: Volume One. Erik can be heard weekly on his highly-regarded podcast entitled Riffin w/ Griffin.
