Artist Kyle Kinane

Dry, dark, and beardy, Kyle Kinane is drunkenly teetering on the brink of alternative comedy fame, whatever that’s worth. Hailing from Addison—one of Chicago’s blandest ’burbs—Kinane’s been riding high on high-profile touring gigs with No. 1 fan Patton Oswalt and fellow facial hair-aficionado Brian Posehn. Death Of The Party, Kinane’s excellent debut album, is chock-full of wry observations and well-placed cusses, tempered with a healthy dose of inappropriate, childlike innocence. Live, he hops from jokes about beer and friends to A+ musings about the origins of the world’s largest pizza. Kinane was named one of Variety’s 10 comedians to watch for in 2010, so now’s the time to catch him at a small club. 

Updated 01/04/2012