Kyle Kinane: From Comedy Central to ‘Dirt Nap’
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
It’s genuinely disorienting to see Kyle Kinane without the signature beard that has become his comedy brand over the past 15 years or so when his clean-shaved face pops up on Zoom. “God, I hate brands so much,” he says. “I love nothing more than exploding personal brands.” In this episode, Kinane opens up about his decision to leave Los Angeles for Portland after losing his coveted gig as the official voice of Comedy Central and why he no longer feels like he needs the corporate structure that has kept so many of his fellow comedians tethered to the center of the entertainment industry. He also discusses why his comedy seems to appeal to both sides of the political aisle—for better or worse—and why he has no respect for any comedian who embellishes the truth on stage in an effort to “garner sympathy.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast. |
| 0:09.1 | Kyle Canane looks and sounds like he's going to be a certain type of, let's say, combative |
| 0:14.8 | comedian. But if you've been paying attention to his comedy over the past 15 years or so, |
| 0:20.0 | you will realize that his signature |
| 0:21.8 | beard, more on that later, and gruff voice, actually stand in sharp contrast to the point |
| 0:27.4 | of view he's putting forward on stage. And about that voice? Even if you were not a fan of |
| 0:32.9 | Kyle's comedy, you will probably recognize it if you spent any time watching Comedy Central during |
| 0:37.8 | the Golden Age of The Daily Show with John Stewart and the Colbert Report. It was during the |
| 0:42.7 | 2010s that Kyle became the literal voice of that network, delivering the words next on Comedy |
| 0:48.2 | Central more times than he could count. That job may have helped make him a fixture in the comedy |
| 0:53.8 | scene, but as he tells me in this episode, it didn't stop the network from unceremoniously kicking him to the curb when his time was done. |
| 1:01.0 | That's not exactly why Kyle decided to move out of Los Angeles and up to Portland a few years ago, but it was part of his realization that as a solid touring comic, he no longer needed |
| 1:12.1 | the corporate structure that keeps so many comedians tied to the entertainment industry. |
| 1:17.3 | Before we get into what I thought was a really illuminating conversation about the comedy |
| 1:21.5 | world as it stands now and his place in it, let's hear a clip from Kyle's latest one-hour |
| 1:26.6 | special, Dirtnap, which she is selling |
| 1:29.1 | directly to fans through 800-pound gorilla and is available now on Kyle Canane.com. |
| 1:35.3 | I think that the last eight years, eight years in this country has really ruined the whole |
| 1:43.4 | the president's been kidnapped genre of action movie. |
| 1:46.9 | I will say that it has deflated my enthusiasm. |
| 1:54.1 | Man, that was a fun movie. Ten years ago, that was fun. Oh, you'd go right to the cinema on Friday. |
| 1:59.2 | The president's been kidnapped. Oh, no, who's going to save him? |
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