Catherine Cohen, Patti Harrison, and Mitra Jouhari, who all work together on the show It’s a Guy Thing, consider one another the funniest women alive. The three of them have contributed to nearly every part of the modern comedy landscape: writing for AMC and HBO, acting in The Big Sick and Broad City, and performing in East Village cabarets, The Tonight Show, and now the Hideout as part of the Tomorrow Never Knows festival.
In the ensuing years, the show has strayed from its original premise and now consists largely of musical comedy. “We got a lot more confident individually,” Jouhari says, “and that let us have more fun and be more playful as a group.” The song “All-American Guy” is a great example of their collective voice. The trio sings about looking for men who meet the blue-eyed, football-throwing cliche of the title, until the song twists into a satire targeting the pervasiveness of rape culture: “Statistically, he’ll find you.” Cohen credits Harrison as the GarageBand expert behind their backing tracks, though they have also used karaoke tracks pulled from YouTube. “I genuinely, no humility here, bring nothing to the table when it comes to music composition,” Jouhari adds.
Fri 1/18, 8 PM, the Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, tnkfest.com, sold out.
