Cleveland won the summer, so Mike Polk Jr asks: Who are we now?
Cleveland’s championship summer has driven local comedian and YouTube sensation Mike Polk Jr into the throes of an existential crisis.
With Cavaliers fans still basking in the glow of the team’s first NBA title, and Indians fans surfing a first-place wave toward next month’s postseason, Polk appears to be searching for a new narrative among his popular video productions.
In light of Cleveland’s recent success, Polk — who put together a “Hastily-made Cleveland Tourism Video” and famously dubbed the Browns’ home field a “Factory of Sadness,” — asks in a new clip: Who are we now?
The video, which has a slightly R-rated tone, was commissioned by HBO’s Bill Simmons (he, of the unabashed Boston bias and longtime LeBron hatred) to tide over his audience while “Any Given Wednesday” is on a one-week hiatus.
No @anygivenweds until Sep. 7 … but we had @mikepolkjr make a video gift for Cleveland for winning the summer. https://t.co/eNiARAohZr
— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) August 31, 2016
Polk’s clip debuted yesterday and depicts the Warren, Ohio native opining about Cleveland losing its “brand” as a national doormat. Without it, he asks: “are we just a neutered Guy Fieri?”
Other quips from the three-minute clip include:
“We survived the Hough riots, and Dion Waiters.”
“We used to cry ourselves to sleep every night, now we’re partying like Johnny Manziel.”
And:
“Now that we’re a trendy city, we’re not expected to start acting like those spoiled, pompous Boston fans, are we? I just don’t think we have that kind of darkness in us.”
Polk closes the ditty by pointing out that Browns season is starting soon, and “everything should start making sense again then,” before giving an eerily foreboding shout-out to Robert Griffin III.
Watch the video above (heads up: it contains a few instances of coarse language) and let us know in the comments below if you think Polk has a point.
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Cleveland won the summer, so Mike Polk Jr asks: Who are we now?
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