How being contrarian created Kill Tony: "Everybody was telling me to do a podcast"

Tell me a little bit about the unbelievable 12-year overnight success that is Kill Tony. >> I just built the show that I wanted to do. You know, I was very lucky early on at the comedy store to get to host the open mics there, which are 3 minute long sets on Sundays and Mondays with 40 comedians in a row doing 3 minutes, 3 minutes, 3 minutes, 3 minutes. And I would go up after each comedian did 3 minutes and make fun of them. and every once in a while afterwards go up to them personally and say, "Hey, you know, if you took a breath sometimes or, you know, used pauses or sped up or got the

mic closer to your mouth, little advice here and there." And me and my friends would always have so much fun sitting in the back of the room watching these open mics and the things that we would whisper into each other's ears I thought were so funny. We'd be in the back of the room. Sometimes we'd be the only people laughing at the open mic because of what we're saying to each other. And I thought to myself during this time in which everyone was saying, Tony, you have to do a podcast. You got to do a podcast. Everyone has a podcast. It was completely unheard of at the time. But I thought, why not show how crazy an open mic can be and the ideas that me and whatever comedian buddies were sitting

next to me if we shared what we were laughing about with the people, I think it could be a hit. And even the co-host Redband at the time goes, "Wait, what? Who the is going to want to watch an open mic? And I kind of thought everybody would. Turns out worked out pretty well. >> Yeah.