KT #752 - STEVE BYRNE + TOMMY POPE

Kill Tony #752 - Steve Byrne and Tommy Pope get a soundboard substitution, a borrowed guitar and a night of callbacks that keep escaping the minute. 1. Redban temporarily leaves after Tony says the wrong episode was uploaded. That puts Tony on sound effects for the opening stretch. Redban's return then gets its own greeting during Yehee's interview. This is the show's onstage explanation, rather than an independent audit of the upload. 2. JJ Alexander has a useful road story: he says he had 45 minutes of material but ended up covering 90 in Sioux Falls while Enrique Chacon was delayed. He says the expanded plan included crowd work. Those are his reported durations, not a separately timed recording. 3. JJ and Mason Bird have another connection away from the stage. JJ says they now work at the same Dutch Bros and that he helped Mason get the job. The touring story ends up next to an extremely enthusiastic coffee-shop update. 4. Yehee says this was her ninth signup, not her ninth appearance. Her first attempt came with birthday balloons - one saying Happy Birthday and the other Get Well Soon. Later, the online math teacher briefly takes charge of the joke-book handoff with I am the teacher here. 5. Tommie Tickles says he has put in about 100 open mics. There is a smaller sign of practice too: he points out that he moved the mic stand out of the way. The panel notices the improvement in his performance, rather than treating the self-reported count as an audited record. 6. Tony Scar's first material does not need a guitar, but he explains that musical comedy is his specialty. The room finds him one, he performs his comic love song and the reaction ends in a Golden Ticket announcement. His nine months of experience is his own account; the award here is an on-air event. 7. Collin Sledge gives Yehee a shout-out for following through. He says she asked where she could get onstage in Houston, he shared the places he knew and she later started showing up. It is a small connection between two performers in the same episode. 8. Timely Rain's festival job gives the interview a built-in performance. She demonstrates the British voice she uses serving customers, and John Deas instantly supplies Renaissance-style music. Her mention of singing Wicked with Collin also leads to a brief requested vocal bit. 9. Jimmy Prescott gives the panel an unusually specific marker for his short film: fourteen minutes, thirty seconds. Tommy comes back to the same timestamp much later, even after the interview has moved on. The repeated number becomes the callback. 10. Daniel Sheppard introduces his new job as being a stripper, then reveals the actual job: stripping wires and fabricating cables. The occupation supplies its own setup and reveal. 11. Ahren Belisle asks to be allowed to cook. Tony stretches that into microwave and frozen-dinner jokes, until Ahren replies that he has an air fryer. A figure of speech turns into a very literal kitchen argument. 12. Phrase watch: the automatic transcript contains 16 matches for “I love it” and three for “Absolutely incredible” across all voices. These are text matches, not verified host-only spoken totals. Sets & timestamps 05:38 - JJ Alexander 14:39 - Yehee 28:30 - Blake Apatow 34:57 - Tommie Tickles 44:04 - Ehsan Ahmad 49:10 - Tony Scar (first available stand-up text; introduction missing from stored captions) 58:56 - Collin Sledge 1:04:00 - Timely Rain 1:10:14 - Biddy O'Loughlin 1:16:32 - Jimmy Prescott 1:24:41 - Matt Rivas 1:28:53 - Emanuel Martinez 1:33:46 - Saul Wilson 1:43:02 - Daniel Sheppard 1:49:42 - Ahren Belisle Bonus performances & extra bits 13:18 - JJ describes and demonstrates his belly-impression bit 23:49 - Yehee joke-book handoff sequence 52:47 - Tony Scar introduces his guitar song; music starts at 53:06 1:06:14 - Timely’s festival-voice demonstration with band music 1:06:56 - Collin’s requested Wicked vocal bit 1:37:37 - Saul’s requested beatboxing attempt 1:40:04 - Saul’s announcer-voice attempt 1:41:54 - Tommy Pope shirt-opening callback during Saul’s interview The stored captions omit Tony Scar’s stand-up introduction and alternate Scar/Star. The first marker uses his first available set text; the guitar performance is listed separately. Performer spellings follow this episode’s stored lineup where captions vary. Which callback stuck with you: fourteen-thirty or the air fryer?