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: [231, 252, 289, 108, 20, 117, 191, 25, 240, 275, 124, 63, 60, 97, 166, 152, 81, 248, 249, 156], k=5
Example Output: 248

Example Input: [122, 192, 254, 187, 244, 116, 87, 90, 230, 248, 94, 293, 257, 186, 96, 177, 294, 261, 104, 18], k=17
Example Output: 94

Example Input: [34, 138, 133, 246, 122, 168, 258, 234, 45, 271, 280, 169, 257, 81, 154, 98, 290, 77, 216, 161], k=14
Example Output:
133