Kill Tony #788, recorded at the Comedy Mothership in Austin, features guest panellists Wheeler Walker Jr. and Sam Tripoli alongside the show’s rotating one-minute performers and interviews. The most substantively newsworthy segment centres on Billy McFarland, introduced as the creator of Fyre Festival, making a stand-up debut and then taking questions. McFarland claims he has staged three festivals in the past year—two on Utila, Honduras, and one in Turks and Caicos—and names acts he says performed, including French Montana, Rae Sremmurd and Bobby Shmurda. He also says he still owes “26 million”, and reveals he had a baby eight days earlier. Discussing incarceration, he says he repeatedly got in trouble for contraband communications, including having a mobile phone to contact his partner and attempting to record a “podcast” trailer on a prison payphone; he describes disciplinary consequences without detailing all methods.
Separately, a brief exchange on conspiracy theories escalates when Tripoli asserts, without evidence on air, that Jewish people “run the weather”. Another interview draws attention for its first-person account of touring-era safety: a 71-year-old former feature act says she left the road decades ago after overhearing male comedians in a shared condo discussing whether she would “do” both of them, describing measures she took to secure her room.
The rest of the episode is dominated by improvised roasting, recurring bits, and audience-driven interview tangents typical of the format.
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Yeah, I still owe 26 million. So, not enough, right?
During a discussion about the festivals he says he has produced recently, Billy McFarland says on stage that he “still owe[s] 26 million”. The figure is offered in a comedic back-and-forth and is not supported with documents on air.
I had a cell phone uh trying to talk to my girlfriend turned wife now. That didn't go so well. And then I did a podcast over the pay phone and that was one of my worst ideas.
Billy McFarland says he repeatedly got in trouble in prison, including having a contraband mobile phone to speak with his girlfriend, whom he says is now his wife. He also says he tried recording a podcast trailer over a prison payphone before staff stopped him.
