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Cleveland PD pays attention to standup

At the top of the Cleveland.com page (the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s website) is this series of items, by Mike McIntyre, who is identified as “Plain Dealer Comedy Reporter.”

The PD has a comedy reporter? This is certainly good news.

There’s news of comedy-related happenings in Cleveland, Cuyahoga Falls– in the clubs and elsewhere and there’s a mini-interview with Dom Irrera on the occasion of his stint at Hilarities. Irrera ponders the differences between message comics and just plain comics:

I saw George Carlin last week. He is absolutely brilliant. I think he is a level or two above anyone I have ever seen as far as just being brilliant. But the bad thing is he’s lecturing so much that I’m thinking I understand why people would want to go see somebody just to make them laugh.

Read the whole thing.