In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth largest element in the input list.

Example Input: [253, 158, 127, 155, 113, 248, 41, 42, 128, 201, 275, 252, 251, 40, 185, 82, 205, 125, 233, 107], k=20
Example Output: 40

Example Input: [122, 139, 170, 195, 179, 94, 220, 103, 143, 248, 286, 69, 160, 14, 125, 86, 153, 164, 77, 108], k=5
Example Output: 179

Example Input: [18, 156, 148, 30, 284, 137, 16, 115, 127, 205, 39, 238, 163, 22, 295, 231, 147, 256, 206, 19], k=10
Example Output:
148