Dear reader,
Can you even believe that it’s the holiday season already? It feels like just yesterday we were pulling lukewarm beers out of our backpack at Edgewater, and now we’re pulling swigs of whiskey from a flask at empty Browns Stadium. Oh how time flies!
The holiday season means a couple of things around these parts — every area mom stocking her fridge with Christmas Ale, visiting children remembering what a Christmas Ale hangover feels like, and emails to your humble local altweekly from local comedians that say things like (no lie): “This isn’t hilarious but it’s pretty good.” Yes, the holiday season means the arrival of the annual comedy issue, wherein we beg local standup comedians and assorted people of varying celebrity to pen a humorous piece to share with you.
We’ve got nine submissions to share with you in the following pages, and a bunch more you can find online. They tackle getting cat-called downtown, how to deal with Browns fans, how to train cats, interviews with the GOP presidential candidates and more, including a piece written by Ramon Rivas that examines the state of the comedy scene despite the fact that our one and only suggestion for contributions was that they not examine the state of the comedy scene. We love Ramon, and he makes delicious sandwiches for his rooftop shows, and we’ll just assume he was blazed off his Hispanic balls when he read our email, so we let it fly. Plus, it’s funny, and Ramon’s the expert in that area, not us.
So dig in and enjoy, but as you do remember that early bar set by one contributor: “Not hilarious but pretty good.”
Our sincere thanks to everyone who wrote something and our sincere thanks to all you lovely readers.
— Your pals at Scene
This article appears in Dec 2-8, 2015.
