Kyle Lowden

Voted one of Indiana's 10 sexiest men!... by the blind mans association

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HEIGHT: 6'0"... actually I believe I'm like 5'11" and 3/4 but I count tippy-toes.

WEIGHT: Anywhere between 2 and 13.5 Stone

WHERE ARE YOU?: I am currently a junior Blackburn College, hating 98% of myself for accepting

ALSO KNOWN AS: Sean McBride

WHY ARE YOU IN THE TROUPE: sadly I founded it, so I must go down with the ship

WHAT PURPOSE DO YOU SERVE: little to none.... to quote Amadeus, I'm the 'King of Mediocrity'

SOMETHING WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU: I've never been brutally sodomized by police officers... domestically...often

FAVORITE COLOR: deep blue, or morning-melon-with-a-hint-of-sunshine (quite an expressive shade)

FAVORITE MUSIC: Okay, here's the thing- I'm a total snob about music. I don't know if its because I'm a musician myself or if its just because I'm a jerk. But I can't just listen to the radio... stuff I like and/or recommend: Tears For Fears, Abandoned Pools, Verve Pipe, Keane, Damien Rice, Jimmy Eat World, Green Day, Badfinger, Junior Varsity, World Party (not so much post-Egyptology), Mad at Gravity, Live, Dishwalla... the list goes on...I've also released two cds you can purchase from CDBABY.com or TOWERRECORDS.com (search for Pop Trash).

FAVORITE COMEDY: Another snob/jerk situation. When I opened for Jeremy Hotz, he told me that I would have an awful time in the field of comedy because I had too high of standards for comedy. Thus far, he's been fairly accurate. As far as sketch comedy is concerned, Kids in the Hall is the best.  Ultimately, it was Monty Python that introduced me to brilliant sketch comedy, but KITH is what truly inspired me to start TMB. KITH always had more of an edge than Python (Python was smart but on the silly side). KITH had angst that I identified with at the age of 13, and still do. I hate hack standup comics, so this is a hack-free list of some of my personal favorite standup comedians: Jeremy Hotz, Jon Stewart, Marc Maron, Lewis Black, Al Franken, Dave Mordal, Ellen Degeneres, Zach Galafianakis, Greg Behrendt, Steven Wright, George Carlin...Acting influences include Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Zach Braff, Tim Robbins, Edward Norton, Sean Penn, Gary Sinese...

FAVORITE FOOD: Sustenance is overrated, I survive off a well-balanced diet of battery acid and gun powder

WHY ARE YOU INTO COMEDY: Any actor or comedian who tells you that its not about feeling loved or getting attention is lying. Thats the nature of this profession, we're all addicted to attention. I'm an attention whore and I love to make people laugh. There is no better drug in the world than making a big room laugh. 

SUM UP YOUR STYLE OF COMEDY: I'm a mixed bag comedically but the one consistency is that I love smart comedy and smart comedians. I think I tend to fall on the darker side of things. I am definitely into smart political humor (whether I accomplished that or not in Election Day). Irony is great. But I can't stand hacks or blue comedy. Or blue collar comedy for that matter. I don't like comedy that relies on a crutch (example being if you're fat, your entire act is about fat people or how fat you are). Its not funny and never will be.

WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON TMB CHEMISTRY: We need counseling...I think, surprisingly, we're at our best in the writing process. One thing that makes us stand out from the rest of sketch comedy troupes currently is the strength of our writing. I didn't train with Second City Chicago until a year after the TMB college hiatus, so no one had any training. Just angst and a larger than average high school lexicon. There our obvious strengths and weaknesses among our troupe but our average age is now 21 years old and I think that it is okay for us to have those weaknesses. Some of us are much better writers than performers as well as the opposite but it forms a cool unique balance that I think makes us as funny or unfunny as we are. In the writing process and on stage you can develop certain chemistry that translates into great comedy. Jon and I have great 'idea' chemistry, Nick and I have great 'performance' chemistry and we all have chemistry in the writing process. 

WHAT ARE SIX WORDS THAT DESCRIBE YOU: paradox, manic, genius, liar, driven, and ironicalitivity