According to Adam Pally, Tony Hinchcliffe is ruining stand-up comedy because he is fundamentally incapable of discovering the next Reggie Watts.
There’s no denying the fact that the near future of the stand-up comedy industry will be shaped by the Austin comedy scene and its most powerful patrons. Hinchcliffe and Joe Rogan are the new gatekeepers of humor, replacing old mainstays such as Mitzi Shore and Budd Friedman, and their personal preferences now decide which comedians rise to the top of the vaguely conservative online comedy ecosystem, even if Hinchcliffe himself probably couldn’t earn an invitation to the secret show with his own routine.
Meanwhile, many comedians and comedy fans are extremely worried that the most popular avenue to national recognition in stand-up is only available to the kind of high-volume edgelord comedians who can make Hinchliffe laugh and pander to his audience’s tastes.
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Actor, comedian and TV producer Adam Pally is one of those Kill Tony detractors, and, in a recent appearance on the Good One podcast, Pally explained exactly why Hinchcliffe’s influence on the comedy industry sucks so bad for people who need more than a few slurs shouted by an unshaven lunatic to get a good laugh.
When talking about his love for a high-concept bit in comedy, Pally declared, “We’re going to take shots (for a second), but fuck Kill Tony.” Pally said of the popular podcast/amateur stand-up comedy showcase, “As much as people are being discovered there, fuck that shit, it’s the decline.”
“You used to be able to come to a stand-up show, and you would see people that, like, normally would not be allowed to fly internationally or something,” Pally reminisced of the stand-up comedy scene when he was an up-and-comer himself. “And they’d come out, and they’d do a bit about, like, the wildest (things) – like, you’d be on the floor.”
Specifically, Pally recalled, “The first time I saw Reggie Watts, my jaw was on the floor. ‘I was like, I’ve never seen talent like that’ … and, like, Reggie Watts would not have been a thing had it not been for that comedy scene.”
Pally says that, if the surrealist comedian and musician were to get his start in the modern era of comedy, “He would have had to go on Kill Tony. And he would have been, like, making up a genius song in the moment, and you would have someone be like, ‘*in a derogatory Tony Hinchcliffe voice* Umm, I don’t know, it’s a little whatever.’”
“Someone (should) do a show where they encourage people to do bits,” Pally pleaded, “I would love to see that.”
Well, that last line highlights the entire problem with decrying Kill Tony and its taste-making host – there isn’t an equal alternative in the comedy scene to begging for approval from the guy who is so painfully unfunny that he bombed at a Trump rally for being too racist. For as much as we, as bystanders, may want to attack Hinchcliffe for his taste in comedy, nobody else in the industry is both willing and able to host an open mic at Madison Square Garden where struggling stand-ups can make a name for themselves in just 60 seconds.
If Pally worries that the current comedy industry is incapable of fostering the careers of weird, unique comedians, then maybe it’s time for him to start his own podcast/showcase – and, not for nothing, I’m pretty sure Kill Tony fans would argue that Casey Rocket belongs on the no-fly list.
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