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August 31, 2016We’ve been posting Mike Polk videos forever now. We posted them before Cleveland was a city of champions and long before Polk was tapped by the biggest personality in American sports, Bill Simmons, to put his comedy on HBO. Mike’s new music video is really funny, but it’s also very real in terms of describing the very real existential crisis that Cleveland sports fans are grappling with now that we watched the Cavaliers win without the bottom falling out at the very end.
I won’t spoil any jokes here, but the Guy Fieri stuff is easily my favorite part.
Also, just in case this post blows up from thousands of people reading it, you should really check out the greatest interviews that Mike Polk has ever done in his life1 when he joined me on the WFNY Podcast.
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“Cleveland’s steaming with pride across every chest”
Candidate for best line ever.
Mike Polk makes a name for himself by crapping on Cleveland (tourism videos), gains further notoriety by celebrating Cleveland when they win. He’s the worst.
I think he’s really funny and I think he’s always telling the truth as he sees it. I felt like the crapping on Cleveland portion of his career was out of frustration that things weren’t better. Now that they are improving, I think it’s fun to see him continue to be funny with it. Like, he MURDERS the Browns, but it’s not because he wants them to be bad, right?
Yeah, I think he’s really funny, but the crapping on Cleveland does get old. But at least he does it as a comedian, and not as someone who is supposed to be taken seriously.
[For the record, I don’t actually follow Windhorst that closely; but the few times I have heard him recently (e.g., the Believeland doc), I thought he came off as a sour grapes complainer of the place that made him.]
He put out and benefited from something that became every Internet idiot’s response to anything Cleveland related. I feel like the Browns videos are similar, to a lesser degree. Just makes me mad, especially when you contrast him with somebody like Ramon Rivas who deservedly just got a Comedy Central Half Hour and is a relentless champion for Cleveland.
There’s a difference between criticism and self-deprecation. Polk has certainly built a career around the latter.
However, I’d agree that he’d benefit by diversifying his material. In some ways, that is the subtext of this satirical song.
mike polk is terrible – his act has grown old. and he isnt funny.
You do realize his tourism videos were ironic, right? He loves Cleveland
so many zings. Too many zings. Passing out from all the zings.
Very true. However, his stand up stuff isn’t bad and isn’t completely cleveland based.
I agree with you 100%. Friends of mine living in other cities that rip on Cleveland use his crap all the time – they don’t even know the turd is from here. I honestly don’t even think he’s funny either. I guess that’s why he’s not in NYC or LA doing comedy, and stuck in sucky Cleveland…huh Mike? hahaha—)
100% agreed.
Did he not just call out people for low attendance? Even though attendance is driven by corporate ticket sales. He is at best – ignorant. IMO he’s an opportunistic bum. Less I see of him the better.
I thought he was funny since back in the Kent days, plus he’s a good guy. Glad to see him getting bigger with each year.
Matt Underwood is awful- his home run calls were never good. And his internet commenting is full of non-sequiturs.
Agreed. There’s a fine line between self-deprecation and piling on. I think the deciding factor in what swings me in his favor is genuineness of loving the city and being funny. I think because he benefits professionally is why so many panties get in a bunch…but that’s sort of silly if you ask me. Lighten up Francis…
I love Mike Polk’s videos and find them hilarious. This one, not as much. But I’m sure I’ll still be looking forward to the next one.
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For a couple of years after I saw the Cleveland Tourism video, I felt the same way. That also happened to coincide with a time where I was feeling very defensive about Cleveland in general. More recently, I’ve decided to stop holding on so tight to this imaginary “Cleveland” and rather embrace the fact that there are in fact things that are not great, and we may as well have some fun with them. And count me as one that believes that Polk is 100% in love with Cleveland.
See, he wasn’t “crapping on Cleveland.” He was making a funny video about crappy aspects of Cleveland, and being a bit of an “anti-booster.” For as much as I do love this place, the boosterism can get a bit old at times. The best boosterism is loving where you live, for all of its faults – not pretending they don’t exist.
Maybe I’m just salty, but I wish Mike Polk was half as funny as he seems to think he is. He’s kind of like an average SNL-sketch-turned-movie. The original sketch (Cleveland tourism videos) is funny for about 90 seconds, and then it gets beaten to death and there’s no actual story from which to make a movie (everything else).
Which I guess is easy for me to say from my desk where I am constantly not churning out anything that’s funny…
Don’t sell yourself short. You are a Michigan fan, and that’s super funny.
Resisting your overt attempts to poke the bear. 😉
Of the sports “personalities” (the whole idea of a sports personality is a bunch of crap to begin with) who people won’t just let me ignore, Simmons is one of the few that is worse than Polk. They deserve nothing more than each other.
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