Kill Tony makes Miles Johnson a regular as Dedric Flynn exits

Kill Tony #792 handed out the only thing the show really has to give. Miles Johnson, a young comedian who performs regularly at the Austin club, was named the newest official regular after a set about his new worm composting hobby and his recent marriage. That is the whole pitch. Worms and a wedding.

On the same episode, Dedric Flynn announced he is stepping down from weekly appearances and will only do the special arena shows going forward. That ends a one-year run as a consistent regular. His farewell got emotional, which Tony Hinchcliffe immediately compared to a Walmart firing speech.

The guests were stacked anyway

Hinchcliffe and Brian Redban had Jimmy Carr in, promoting his Prime Video special Last One Laughing and his new book about jokes. Luis J. Gomez was there too, and he still holds the all time Kill Tony appearance record. Steve Rannazzisi, the new Legion of Skanks co-host and a Comedy Store regular, rounded out the panel.

Gomez and Flynn had a moment over how Flynn's name is pronounced. Gomez told him he was going to compliment him, then told him to go fuck himself instead. Carr, on Nicole Tran's appearance, asked if she minded him calling her his Down Syndrome Asian self. Normal temperature for this show.

One other piece of business. Battle rapper and comedian Reggie Kush won a golden ticket to the August 2027 Kill Tony show at Madison Square Garden. That is a ticket punched almost two years out, which is a strange thing to carry around.

Why a regular spot matters

Regular slots are the currency on Kill Tony. Guests rotate through every week and most of them are bigger names than the people on the bench, but the bench is the show. A regular gets the time, the recurring bits, the crowd that already knows them, and the arena dates. When one of those seats changes hands, that is the episode, not whoever was sitting in the guest chair.

Flynn is not vanishing. Arena only is still Kill Tony, just the version with ten thousand people in it instead of a Thursday crowd. Whether that is a step up or a quiet exit depends on how many arena shows land, and the show did not say.

Speaking of which, the announcements from #792 were busy. Kill Tony plays Las Vegas November 13 and 14 at the MGM Grand, there is a New Year's Eve show at the Moody Center in Austin, and there are secret shows every Thursday at the Sunset Strip comedy club. Skankfest single-day passes were also plugged, available at skankfest.com.