New Delhi, April 10 -- Imagine a Roman coliseum where the lions wear baseball caps and the gladiators are armed with punchlines. That, dear reader, is the world of Kill Tony. Comedians picked out of a bucket get the stage for one minute: 60 seconds under the unblinking stare of Tony Hinchcliffe, a roastmaster with a tongue dipped in arsenic and Red Bull. With a revolving door of star guests and a house band funkier than a Delhi summer, Kill Tony isn't a mere podcast-it's part open mic, part gauntlet, part bloodsport. It's where careers are born, egos are slain, and every silence is radioactive.

After 700 or so episodes on YouTube, Kill Tony has come to the big red streaming service. Kill Tony: Kill Or Be Killed marks the Netflix debut fo...