Kyle Kinane

I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests.

I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I can't enjoy anything.

I still love a well-crafted joke. Twitter's been great for that.

I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction in life. It made it easier to pick out classes at college, like, 'Oh, this is writing classes, that's what I'm doing.'

I now get to have the life I wanted when I was 18 years old. Now, I'm like, 'I can buy any skateboard I want.'

I'm glad I'm a comedian. Otherwise, my life would just be a series of undocumented low points.

I am somehow allowed by the universe to do exactly what I want to do to make a living.

I think the problems with comedians that are political, and there are some brilliant ones, are the ones that offer no solutions. Not that there's a moral obligation for a comic to fix things, but I like to see a comic that's upset about something and offer a solution. It can be a funny solution. I like to see the thought process.

In 2007, I had on-paper success. I got to go to that Aspen comedy festival, which was pretty exclusive, I guess. Then I did Carson Daly. That was enough validation.

Nobody mountain bikes anymore - or ever did - in comedy, so I have to go by myself.

I like to challenge myself not to be negative, because it's easy to take comedy to a negative place and criticize the outside world. Trying to praise something through comedy or be appreciative and making jokes about it is more challenging than cutting things down.

The exciting part about life is finding out what you can't do, because you don't find out until you try to do something and you're stopped.