KT #787 - HARLAND WILLIAMS + JEREMIAH WATKINS

Kill Tony #787 - Harland Williams and Jeremiah Watkins turn a stuck microphone, a Lego hobby and a stack of roast jokes into a callback-heavy night. 1. Paulie Shore leaves behind a problem nobody planned: getting the microphone out of its stand. The crew explains that the tape keeps the cable from slipping out, while Tony wonders why it has become harder to remove. Heidi later gets credited as a microphone consultant, and Jeremiah brings the problem back when Ronnie handles the mic more easily. 2. Mario says one birthday Lego set sent him into a year of collecting. He lists Mario and Luigi karts and a Game Boy, then mentions his girlfriend. Tony turns that into a girlfriend-made-of-Lego joke, but Mario has an actual follow-up: they have little Lego versions of both of them. A Secret Show invitation follows before he leaves. 3. Ronnie's popcorn enthusiasm gives the panel exactly the detail it wants. Stovetop popcorn becomes Pop Secret wordplay, Orville Octopoppy and a Toy Story claw impression. Those are jokes built around the conversation, rather than a claim that popcorn changes anyone's medical condition. 4. Aaron Belisle announces that he will thank Tony instead of roasting him. He credits the show with helping his career and recalls Tony giving him advice on America's Got Talent material. The affectionate goatee tribute then becomes the trap Tony should have seen coming. Aaron follows it by doing his own Harland impression, giving the guest a chance to answer back. 5. Glenn's radio background produces a show within the show. He corrects the number from 15 years to 12, and Tony launches into a meandering morning-DJ parody. The traffic handoff is the best part: it is still the same guy doing the report. Glenn then identifies the station as WRCN on Long Island. 6. Aaron Spaller's car story has a small correction that matters to the punchline. He says 156 in a Ford Focus; when 165 gets repeated, he corrects it back to 156. The panel's answer is a Ford out of focus. The speed is his account, rather than an independently checked driving record. 7. Brian keeps finding his way back to Houston. Travel leads to Houston, watching the news leads to Houston, and a question about hobbies starts with driving to Houston. Harland finally announces that he is returning to the wardrobe jokes. The repeated answer becomes its own interview running gag. 8. Harland spends earlier parts of the show offering to buy other people's jokes, including Paulie's material. AI Harland reverses that arrangement: after a long David Lucas roast reaches page two, the real Harland asks if he can pay him to stop. The persona gets invited onto the panel, and Tony later explains he had been extending the bucket section while AI Harland got ready. 9. The phrase watch finds 15 automatic-text matches for "I love it" and four for "absolutely incredible" in this stored episode. These counts include all voices and opening material; they are not verified counts of Tony alone. Censored gaps interrupt matches, so captions can also miss spoken wording. Sets & timestamps 10:00 - Paulie Shore 17:47 - Bob Biggerstaff 26:56 - Mario 31:19 - Ronnie Rohrbach 44:26 - Aaron Belisle 53:10 - Glenn from New York 1:02:23 - Brooke McMinnoway 1:13:40 - Nino 1:19:13 - Dedrick Flynn 1:24:40 - Aaron Spaller 1:32:42 - Jeremy Jonas 1:42:07 - Michaela J 1:49:38 - Brian 1:58:35 - AI Harland Williams 2:04:38 - Lisa Mendoza 2:09:02 - Pat Bonus moments 06:20 - Harland's opening park-story bit 49:12 - Aaron's Harland impression 2:03:37 - AI Harland's additional panel jokes Which callback landed hardest: the microphone, Houston, or Harland paying to stop the jokes?