Shocks & Struts

Kyle Kinane’s storytelling is built on a specific kind of detailed dirtbag poetry, using an elevated, dense vocabulary to describe the mundane disasters of middle age. He kicks off the set with the lingering indignity of Zoom comedy gigs before shifting into his main wheelhouse: highly specific survival stories. The hour peaks during an extended, meticulously constructed account of getting his newly purchased van hopelessly stuck in the sand in Joshua Tree, only to be rescued by a chaotic desert trucker named Garrett.\n\nFilmed at Wiseguys in Salt Lake City, the 2023 special marks Kinane’s return to a full-length video format after years of audio-only releases and a short set on Netflix’s The Standups. Directed by Jonah Ray Rodrigues, the hour features segments on heavy metal cruises, food poisoning, and the horrifying realization of what his own pillows look like without cases on them. 800 Pound Gorilla Media later released an unabridged version of the set with additional material cut from the original YouTube premiere.