The Kill Tony podcast has been building its live footprint for years, and the 2026 touring expansion — fifty-plus North American dates spanning March through November — is proof that what Tony Hinchcliffe and Brian Redban built at the Comedy Mothership in Austin has found an audience willing to fill theater seats across the continent. Killers of Kill Tony arrives at Palace Theatre Albany on Saturday, August 22, part of a northeastern swing that includes Hershey the night prior and Syracuse the following week — a compressed regional run that treats upstate New York as a genuine destination rather than a freeway sign passed between bigger markets.
About Killers of Kill Tony
Kill Tony premiered in June 2013 and operates on a deceptively simple premise: amateur comedians get one minute onstage, a panel of working comics judges them, and the mayhem that follows is the show. What Hinchcliffe and Redban assembled at the Comedy Mothership became, by their own accounting, the number-one live podcast in the world — and the Killers of Kill Tony touring show translates that energy into something calibrated for a full theater engagement rather than a comedy club back room.
The Albany installment features a confirmed lineup of eight comedians: David Lucas, Hans Kim, Timmy No Brakes, Martin Phillips, Dedrick Flynn, Ahren Belisle, William Montgomery, and Ari Matti Mustonen. Lucas has earned his place in the current comedy ecosystem having shared stages with Joe Rogan, Louis C.K., and Bert Kreischer; Ari Matti has built a following through the Comedy Mothership circuit on the strength of his deadpan accounts of Eastern European immigrant life; Martin Phillips, a D.C. native and recurring Kill Tony presence who has performed at multiple festivals, rounds out a cast that skews toward the podcast’s established regulars rather than its open-submission format.
The live show runs approximately two to two-and-a-half hours and incorporates the podcast’s signature “bucket” segment — performers draw random prompts, deliver sixty-second sets, and receive immediate critique from Hinchcliffe. The content is TV-MA throughout. This is not a family outing, and the show is recommended for audiences 18 and older.
About Palace Theatre Albany
The Palace Theatre, at 19 Clinton Avenue in Albany’s Capital District, has been the anchor of the city’s theater district for as long as anyone covering this beat can remember. Its 2,844-seat capacity makes it the appropriate room for a touring comedy operation of this scale — large enough to justify the logistics of a fifty-date national tour, intimate enough that the performer-to-audience rapport a show built on improvisation and live judgment requires does not get swallowed by the hall. The Palace’s proscenium is well-suited to theatrical comedy events; it is a room that rewards ambitious bookings, and it tends to get them.
Tickets & Info
Killers of Kill Tony plays Palace Theatre Albany on Saturday, August 22, 2026. Showtime is 7:00 PM. Tickets are available via Ticketmaster. Content is recommended for audiences 18 and older — the TV-MA designation is not decorative.