Kyle Kinane is a wildman poet. He has been laughing at anti-vaxxers for some time… To their baseless claim that vaccines cause autism, he responds, “Fucking good… We probably need more autistic kids. They’re the ones that keep beating robots at chess.” It’s this type of serious thinking about our collective future that makes his new stand-up special Shocks & Struts perfect for our current moment.
To him, dinosaurs were “God’s little tricksters”; a laparoscopic appendectomy is a “lappy appy”; and a foreskin is “the devil’s calamari.” Using his unique parlance, the beloved comedian transforms our dull world into an emporium of the weird and wonderful.
Kyle recently bought a van – a car that fits his look of someone “who should be at home plotting to kidnap a Democratic governor” – and hit the road to “Jehovah’s Witness [his] bits around the country.” This special showcases another night of hilarity from his travels and a return to a live-action stand-up special, his first since 2018’s Netflix The Standups.
With `his gruff voice, gentle heart, and ill-fated confidence around hotel buffets, Kyle delivers an hour of keen commentary and messy adventure. He wonders at how his pillows turned that color (?!), he explains the way to make everyone in a cruise ship hot tub immediately uncomfortable, and he marvels at pilots who aren’t intimidated by the hundreds of buttons in airplane cockpits, all of which should simply be labeled “Don’t Die!” Kyle Kinane is himself a skilled pilot of comedy. In fact, he’s like a comedy blue angel: darting and diving, taking big risks and pulling off tricks, giving us something to watch that thrills us and moves us too.
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Written and Performed by Kyle Kinane
Directed by Jonah Ray Rodrigues
Executive Producers: Ian Adkins, Ryan Bitzer, Damion Greiman, Anthony Leo, Dexter Scott
Produced by Matt Schuler, Weston Childers
Associate Producer: Marc Atkinson
Communications Coordinator: Krista Conner
Director of Photography: Sean Emer
Edited by David Shamban
Sound Recordist: Anthony Leo
FOH Sound: Bronco Papagiorgio
Sound Mixer: Tyler Whitlatch
Colorist: Andrew Finch
Post-Production Supervisor: Marc Atkinson
Makeup: Kaitlyn Harris
Still Photography: Ryan Provstgaard
DIT: Marc Atkinson
Opening Comedian: Andrew Orvedahl
Camera Operators: Jason T. Rogers, Drew Harris, Nick Lloyd, Hunter Woodward
Camera Operator/First AC: Nick Reyes-Cairo
Video Assist Operator: Michael Reese
Lead Carpenter: Chris Bennion
Carpenter Assistant: Brock Bennion
Transportation PA: M.K. Lott
“Empty Bottle” Written and Performed by Honus Honus, ASCAP
Filmed at Wiseguys in Salt Lake City
A Special Thanks to Keith Stubbs and the Entire Staff at Wiseguys
Special Thanks to Dexter Scott @Vector Management, Andrew Skikne @ United Talent Agency, Mark Kaplan & Jennifer Chun @ Citrin Cooperman and Jeff Cohen, Brad Garreett and Molly Fenton @ Cohen Gardner