This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast.

Kyle Canane looks and sounds like he's going to be a certain type of, let's say, combative

comedian. But if you've been paying attention to his comedy over the past 15 years or so,

you will realize that his signature

beard, more on that later, and gruff voice, actually stand in sharp contrast to the point

of view he's putting forward on stage. And about that voice? Even if you were not a fan of

Kyle's comedy, you will probably recognize it if you spent any time watching Comedy Central during

the Golden Age of The Daily Show with John Stewart and the Colbert Report. It was during the

2010s that Kyle became the literal voice of that network, delivering the words next on Comedy

Central more times than he could count. That job may have helped make him a fixture in the comedy

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.

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

the corporate structure that keeps so many comedians tied to the entertainment industry.

Before we get into what I thought was a really illuminating conversation about the comedy

world as it stands now and his place in it, let's hear a clip from Kyle's latest one-hour

special, Dirtnap, which she is selling

directly to fans through 800-pound gorilla and is available now on Kyle Canane.com.

I think that the last eight years, eight years in this country has really ruined the whole

the president's been kidnapped genre of action movie.

I will say that it has deflated my enthusiasm.

Man, that was a fun movie. Ten years ago, that was fun. Oh, you'd go right to the cinema on Friday.

The president's been kidnapped. Oh, no, who's going to save him?

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