Kyle Ayers, a comic and show promoter who has a rare brain degenerative disease, hosts 'Boast Rattle,' which focuses on two comics complimenting each other instead of roasting each other.
The audience has ignored numerous flash flooding warnings to be at Silver Lake’s 75-capacity Lyric Hyperion theater on a recent rainy evening. Up top, host Kyle Ayers thanks them for braving the torrential downpour and introduces them to “Boast Rattle,” a head-to-head compliment-based take on “Roast Battle.” But unlike its Comedy Store counterpart, the stand-up comics going head to head are trying to comically build each other up instead of hitting them with insults.
“We’re here as artists to make light of things that are so heavy,” echoes Ayers’ friend Andy Frasco, frontman of Andy Frasco & the UN. The two have collaborated on ideas from wrestling-themed band tours to quarantine talk shows. “For him to open up about what he’s been dealing with for years and try to make it into comedy is inspiring, it’s f— ballsy and it makes me proud.”All of which Ayers appreciates. He’s just not sure he’ll be capable of ever seeing the material to fruition.
After a year in Chicago, taking classes at Second City and ImprovOlympic, Ayers hit the Brooklyn, N.Y., mic scene in 2012. At least he thinks it was 2012. He believes TN affects his sense of time and his memory. Dates are tricky. “It feels like I’m sifting through a filing cabinet, actually processing and buffering, but I can’t recall things like I used to be able to,” he says.
Long comedy sets made him tick and twitch. The pain could make him pass out. Light and wind hurt. At its worst, TN keeps Ayers away from comedy, and from people altogether for months at a time. “It’s just very interruptive,” he says from his home in Atwater Village. “It’s spending a lot of time on the kitchen floor, just keeled over and crying and freaking out.”
Ayers continued performing when he could, joining Andy Frasco & the UN and tourmates Big Something as special guest announcer on their Royal Rumble tour in February 2020. It ran 29 shows in 30 days, with Ayers often onstage for 30 minutes each night in significant pain.
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