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Tom Papa’s forth comedy special, filmed in July at the Hanna Theatre, will premiere on Epix at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9. The special is titled Human Mule.

As Papa has described it, much of his material revolves around “the difficulty of being a person.” It might sound simple, but Papa cuts to the core of our bizarre and unsettling human condition.

I ended up at the show after a friend scored tickets. It was excellent.

Here, listen to Papa discuss comedy — and Cleveland’s renaissance — on the Joe Rogan Experience this week.

This article appears in Dec 7-13, 2016.

Eric Sandy is an award-winning Cleveland-based journalist. For a while, he was the managing editor of Scene. He now contributes jam band features every now and then.