Kyle Dunnigan arguably had the funniest channel on YouTube during the pandemic. The Emmy-winning writer-comedian woodshedded with video editing and face-swap technology and came up with a series of painstakingly created sketches featuring uproarious impressions of President Biden, Caitlyn Jenner, Ray Liotta, Nancy Pelosi and, most importantly, Sylvester Stallone.
“I was in a really, like a lot of people, isolated place during the pandemic,” says Dunnigan. “The way I handle being alone is I make things. I’m glad I don’t do drugs. That was a really productive time for me.”
At Home with Sylvester Stallone became Dunnigan’s go-to sketch. Stallone’s face superimposed over Dunnigan’s with a face-swap app enabled complete immersion in the character, who confounds co-hosts such as comedian Kurt Metzger with illogical thinking and endearing overconfidence.
“The thing about that app that I like is the eyes are kind,” says Dunnigan. “That’s important. The image is kind of like a dopey dog. It makes him likeable.”
Dunnigan says he received a lot of support from the comedy community for his impression innovations. Inspired, he created Star Trek satires with Biden as captain, Ben Shapiro as his science officer and Elon Musk, Pete Davidson and Jeff Goldblum as crew members.
Shapiro, Musk and Stallone have embraced Dunnigan’s impressions of them. Bill Maher, not so much. Informed by the hard work the former Inside Amy Schumer writer put into developing characters, Dunnigan’s latest stand-up sets are likely to be transcendently funny. He appears at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club Feb. 2-3 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
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