Veteran stand-up comic Kyle Kinane reveals the “cold-blooded” way he lost his gig at Comedy Central and discusses his latest one-hour special “Dirt Nap” on The Last Laugh podcast.
When Kyle Kinane’s clean-shaven face pops up on Zoom, it’s genuinely disorienting to see him without the signature beard that has become his comedy brand over the past 15 years or so. “God, I hate brands so much,” he says. “I love nothing more than exploding personal brands.
There’s a part of him that still misses Los Angeles, but he felt like he needed to get out in order to fully relate to the people who come to see him perform on the road. “As a comedian, you get really locked into your surroundings,” Kinane explains. “Everybody from New York has jokes about the subway. Everybody from L.A. has jokes about auditions. And you sometimes forget that there’s a whole country between those two cities.
He was at what he describes as the “first peak” of his career—“maybe there’s another one coming, I don’t know”—around 2010, right after the release of his debut hour The gig held steady for almost a decade, until he started hearing from his comedian friends that they were booking auditions to replace him. “I lost it how I got it,” he jokes. “Good thing I wasn’t spending this money, because I knew it wasn’t gonna be forever.”
“If I had answers like that, I wouldn’t be talking to you from a basement in Portland,” Kinane replies with a laugh.
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