Monday, January 30, 2012
Comedy Tonight: Kyle Kinane at Bongo After Hours
Posted by Lance Conzett on Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:00 AM
Kyle Kinane
Where: Bongo After Hours Theatre
When: Tonight at 7:30 p.m.
For better or worse, America’s understanding of stand-up comedy mostly comes from two places: late-night talk shows and reruns of Seinfeld. If you didn’t know any better, you might think all stand-up was an ad-nauseam barrage of setups and punchlines. Somehow, the idea that there are as many sub-genres of comedy as there are of music never quite made it into the collective consciousness — which may be why comics like Kyle Kinane are eschewing comedy clubs entirely in favor of music venues and coffeeshops.
On his debut album, Death of the Party, Kinane establishes himself as a surly, punk-rock version of storyteller comics like Patton Oswalt and Mike Birbiglia. His laments about his worthless college degree and that time he crashed a forklift may not be the rapid-fire joke-a-thon you might expect, but — as Nerdist, The AV Club and others agree — it’s the kind of hilarious perspective you need in your life.
We've included a few more of our favorite Kinane bits after the jump.
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