Comedian Elyssa Phillips is a New Yorker, but she grew up to be a Philadelphian.
Except in one key way: Philly sports fans are "a different breed of human," she tells Axios. "They're like Neanderthals."
Why it matters: That joke may or may not land with Philadelphians still touchy about the Birds' lousy season β but Phillips hopes the rest of her material packs the punch of a bone-crunching Rocky haymaker.