Queer comedy banter with sharp elbows.
The Tony Soto Show runs on Tony Soto talking at full speed until a guest gets pulled into the current. It swings from midlife panic and queer nightlife to comedy rooms, soap operas, politics, Twitch, and whatever public embarrassment is next.
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The Tony Soto Show is a long-running queer comedy conversation that treats structure as a suggestion and momentum as the real format. Tony Soto opens with business, but the business rarely stays business. A reminder about a Brooklyn or Chicago show can become a rant about home, aging, gay neighborhoods, event logistics, or whether anyone should be trusted with an open sign-up sheet. The show is fast. It sounds like a studio-apartment hang that keeps becoming a monologue, then an interview, then a roast, then a memory someone probably should have checked before saying aloud. Recent episodes bring in Diana DeLuna for midlife talk, family visibility, nostalgia, and spiritual housekeeping. Sina Grace shifts the conversation toward comics, childhood fandom, bars, drag, and public flirtation. Adrian Anchondo brings soap opera lore, queer character storylines, General Hospital, and the strange pressure of being asked whether other talents can be folded into television. James Fritz opens the door to LA comedy, San Francisco audiences, stage time, post-COVID show loss, and the pull of New York. Casey Ley pushes the show into politics, entertainment, public records, old professional chemistry, and why some pairings work better when they are slightly combative. Derek Viveiros appears in a comeback episode shaped by COVID recovery, first impressions, Battle Babies, Stash, and the odd intimacy of knowing someone through scenes before really knowing them. Maxwell Esposito and Diana DeLuna help mark the restart of recording at Tony Soto’s apartment after a fundraiser and new equipment. The show is personal without becoming tidy. It is topical without pretending to be a news program. It is queer nightlife memory, comedy-scene complaint, guest catch-up, self-incrimination, and affectionate chaos in one feed. The best moments come when a serious point gets clipped by a joke, then the joke reveals the serious point was still there. It can be blunt and adult, with political anger, sexual references, drug and alcohol talk, and plenty of irreverent edge. Still, the center is social rather than shock-based: friends, performers, comics, and scene people trying to make each other laugh while also admitting that getting older is rude. For PlayNext, it lands as a personality-first discovery show for people who like interviews that behave more like a night out than a press stop.
Made for: For listeners who like loose, personality-led comedy, queer nightlife stories, performer gossip, and guests who can handle teasing. It especially fits people drawn to club-comic pacing and messy friendship chemistry.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its willingness to let the preamble become the point. Announcements, grudges, live-show logistics, politics, and guest interviews blur into one rolling social world.
Tony Soto is one part narcissist, and one part narcissist. Known for his outspoken opinions about everything you don’t want said in front of your mother, he and his friends are guaranteed to make you laugh (at them).
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Tony Soto makes performer interviews feel candid and lived-in, joining queer cultural detail with direct questions, self-mockery and loose guest chemistry.
Tony Soto turns guest interviews into candid, quick-pivoting conversations where personal history and professional life keep colliding. Discussions move through queer nightlife, drag performance, entertainment work, aging, politics and the realities of doing comedy, with Soto…
Tony Soto asks a guest about his first superhero crush; you can keep your polite icebreakers.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose midlife conversation where nostalgia gets heckled and aging still leaves room for change.
The Tony Soto Show treats midlife less as a milestone than as something still shifting underfoot. Tony Soto and Diana move from Christmas-card habits and Instagram boundaries into the larger question of whether getting older should still leave room for reinvention.
A loose comic-book conversation where queer candor and childhood fandom keep bumping into each other.
The Tony Soto Show frames its return to funny as a rambling, personal sit-down with Sina Grace, starting with Tony Soto backing away from politics into political fatigue, escape fantasies, and a Chicago memory that will not behave itself.
A loose, funny soap conversation where queer storylines, Nurse's Ball anxiety, and puppetry all find room.
Tony Soto's conversation with Adrian turns a soap-opera job into a brisk, funny pass through queer representation, daytime melodrama, and the odd pressure of being asked if he can sing.
A hungover argument about yelling opens into a loose, pointed conversation about where comedy can still happen.
Tony Soto turns a question about yelling into a comic argument about perception, defensiveness, and the volatility of a fight involving Israel and tequila.
A loose comedy episode where Brooklyn event planning runs into political anxiety and a very late guest.
Tony Soto leans into the show's loose, lived-in rhythm, moving from a Learn the Words Bitch announcement in Brooklyn to jury-duty frustration, then into a sharper run about political pressure on comedy, television, universities, and entertainment.
A warm, unruly drag-world episode about grief, difficult rooms, and getting another week to work.
The Tony Soto Show turns a rough week into a loose, lived-in episode, moving from Tony Soto mourning Jiggly Caliente to the blunt comedy of bringing Fat Slut and a twink pageant into bars that may not know what to do with either.
Tony's post-COVID return turns porn, first sex, and queer awkwardness into candid comedy.
The Tony Soto Show returns after Tony's COVID absence with first-time guest Derek Viveris, whose work on Mother's Cream Diary opens the door to a loose, frank queer-comedy conversation about porn fantasy, sex, shame, and lived experience.
A stranger calls. Chris Gethard listens. Anything can surface.
Tony Soto opens with news of drag queen Jiggly Caliente's death, then critiques JoJo Siwa's bisexuality announcement.
Tony Soto returns to his show after recovering from COVID, joined by guest Derek Viveiros.
Tony Soto ends the weekly Tony Soto Show podcast in this final episode of the year and moves to daily Monday-through-Thursday streams on Twitch.
Tony Soto opens with Learn the Words, Bitch dates in Brooklyn on September 26 and Chicago on October 30, then pivots to a rant about Carlo Acutis, Charlie Sheen, and Catholic Church branding.
Sina Grace says West Hollywood Monster Squad became personal after black lives matter changed who she wanted profiting from queer stories.
Tony Soto talks with Adrian Anchondo about "General Hospital," where Anchondo says he is in 78 of 250 yearly episodes.
Tony Soto introduces James Fritz around Fritz’s second comedy album, "Old Man Yells at Crowd," recorded at Chicago’s Lincoln Lodge.
Tony Soto opens by describing a full day of jury duty and calling the system a "racket," then says he was the last name called and has to return the next day.
Tony Soto returns from COVID and interviews Derek Viveris, with humorous banter about their first impressions and shared history.
Tony Soto returns with a new iteration of his show, welcoming friends Max and Diana for casual, humorous conversation.
Tony Soto celebrates his 44th birthday and the season finale with a humorous, self-reflective monologue about aging and fatherhood.
Tony Soto rants about Thanksgiving, family dynamics, and weird traditions in his signature narcissistic style.