Keep the Change

There is a particular kind of stubbornness that leads a boy to sit on a carpet for an hour playing GameCube with soiled pants rather than give his brother blackmail material. Nunnink tells the story without making excuses, zeroing in on the grim commitment required to maintain eye contact and insist nothing smells wrong.

Filmed at The Gutter bowling alley in Brooklyn and released in 2025 by 800 Pound Gorilla Media, Keep the Change is his debut special. A Kansas City native who became the first paid regular at The Comedy Club of Kansas City before moving to New York, Nunnink spent the preceding years balancing club sets with internet sketch comedy and writing for animator MeatCanyon.

On stage, he favors a calm, unhurried delivery over the rapid pacing typical of internet-era stand-up. He treats Catholic school lessons like fraternity lore where apostles hunt for drinking miracles, recalls an early job as a Lego Master Builder, and recounts clumsy misadventures involving bedroom bondage and corporate return-to-office policies.