Bill Maher sits down with Tony Hinchcliffe, the ringmaster behind the hit live podcast Kill Tony. Tony reminisces about his early days answering phones at the Comedy Store, how Mitzi Shore ruled the club, how talent coordinators silently decide careers, the jelly fish ghost in the Belly room, Tony’s Puerto Rico joke at the Trump rally and the social media blowback, doing stand-up in a parking lot during Covid, Austin’s comedy boom, Kid Rock’s ‘Southern White House”, why comics crave honesty, Bill’s brief detour into the history of Genghis Khan, and so much more. Go to https://www.zbiotics.com/RANDOM and use RANDOM at checkout for 15% off any first time orders of ZBiotics probiotics Get started at https://www.factormeals.com/random50off and use code random50off to get 50 percent off plus FREE shipping Go to https://www.ffrf.us/freedom or text "CLUB" to 511511 and become a member today Go to https://www.RadioactiveMedia.com or text RANDOM at 511511 to save up to 50%, today! Follow Club Random on IG: @ClubRandomPodcast Follow Bill on IG: @BillMaher Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/ClubRandom Watch Club Random on YouTube: https://bit.ly/ClubRandomYouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the main theme of Bill Maher's conversation with Tony Hinchcliffe?
And they just, you know, they're full on in, let's say.
Oh, yeah.
On everything. So if you deviate from there, it's hard to find your place at a dinner. You know, no one... would invite you out. I mean, you know, the right-wing types, even the Clint Eastwood, who was a Republican, but not that far right. I mean, because he's Clint Eastwood, you know, I'm sure people would still have him over.
But there's just, I mean, they are just very clubby about the politics. What I want to know is, does that pertain in the comedy world? Like, because you're a Trumper, I'm sure most of the comics are not. Yeah. Do they treat you differently? Are you in any way ostracized because of that?
So here's what happened is I moved to Texas during the pandemic when they triple closed everything in California. And there was no indoor shows. And I went and did a show outdoors at the Magic Castle performing to people in cars where the cars had to be six feet apart from one another. I swear to fuck.
Cars are going to give it to each other? I swear to fucking God. Oh, man, that was a terrible disease.
Oh, Bill. And they gave people these clapper things, these little New Year's Eve noisemaker shaky things.
Oh, I thought you honk your horn when you like it.
I'm surprised they actually didn't think of that. But they gave people these noisemakers, and they would hold them out their windows, and it would go clack, clack, clack, clack, clack.
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Chapter 2: How did Tony Hinchcliffe start his comedy career?
all formerly registered Democrat voters, and so is Rogan, and so is Elon, and so is Trump. All these people are famously old Democrats.
Okay, but that's not where we are now. They're not Democrats now. And I understand why the Democratic Party gives them the heebie-jeebies. That's different than being all in on Trump, which they are. But see, I have to believe that the comic community is just better than the actorly community.
Oh, without a doubt.
Because our business is calling out bullshit. Yes. And so it's just harder to be so doctrinaire about your politics. It just is. Yeah. I'm not saying that most of us comics didn't vote the Democratic Party.
Yes, but there's just more of a, if you're going to really do what we do and we do what we do best and call shit out and keep it real, which is what gets the good laughs, the good nutritious laughs, not the cheap laughs, you're going to be having to call out some stuff on the left, even if it's not, you know, Specifically political. It's just the leftist kind of thinking and that kind of stuff.
Because they are as crazy in their own way. They're just not as dangerous.
You mean the left isn't as dangerous?
The left is not as dangerous.
Because they still believe... I would say that they are. That's an interesting one. Because it seems like the right-wingers are the ones with the guns and this and that. It feels that way.
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Chapter 3: What was Mitzi Shore's influence on the Comedy Store?
You're still saying the 2020 election was not... Fair? Because even his own security team said it was fair.
I get it.
A lot of Republicans have. I mean, that's a dead horse that you've got to stop beating.
No, I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that I think that. But there were a lot of votes that didn't vote this year, and those votes were for the left.
Well, he ran three times. He lost one and won two. That's pretty good. And you just got to be, you know, just be cool about it. I used to do a bit in my act about, you know, you ever watch the end of a football game? Okay, what happens? These coaches, these coaches whose whole life is football. They have no life except for Bill Belichick, who's fucking a 24-year-old.
He changed it up completely, and I give him all the props in the world. But otherwise, coaches have no life. So when they lose the game, it's like the worst thing in the world. But what do they do? Yeah. They put on a face and they walk across the field and they stick out their hand and they said, good game, Andy. Good luck next week against the Pack. Yeah. That's what a man does. Yeah.
You don't say, I never lost, I could never lose, until they get their head wrapped around that. But it doesn't even matter. I'm much more concerned about what's going to happen in 2028. Yeah. And, you know, look, it could very well be he does step aside and that he lets Vance and Rubio fight it out because it looks like he's setting them up to be the two heirs. Yeah. And then they run against...
Pete Buttigieg or whoever, and lots of things could happen there. And Vance or whoever could be the next, and absolutely could happen. Or what could happen is that Buttigieg wins
they just don't accept it and that i can't accept i think it's a very uh trump-esque thing specifically him to not want to acknowledge or admit a loss okay i wouldn't say that that's possible i wouldn't say that that is possible yeah i wouldn't say that that's that's straight possible and it's also possible that trumpism that's part of it and his crowd wouldn't accept i mean
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