Catherine Cohen, Patti Harrison, and Mitra Jouhari Know How to Holiday

When you hear the words “holiday comedy show,” you likely envision a nightmare event featuring a whole lot of jokes about Bill the CFO’s toupee. Luckily, that wasn’t the vibe at Brooklyn’s Bell House on Wednesday night, where throngs of young Brooklynites gathered for the It’s a Guy Thing Holiday Spectacular, hosted by Catherine Cohen, Patti Harrison, and Mitra Jouhari.

Each member of the trio has garnered her fair share of fame—Cohen for her cabaret act and Seek Treatment podcast, Harrison for her role on Hulu’s Shrill, and Jouhari for her part in the upcoming Adult Swim series Three Busy Debras—but It’s a Guy Thing is the trio’s long-running stand-up event.

Usually, the show is loosely organized around the conceit that the three women are totally clueless about men, but for this holiday edition, it’s all about bringing together some of their favorite performers, like Megan Stalter (whose own holiday special drops this week), The Daily Show’s Jaboukie Young-White, and Nick Kroll. In the glow of festive red and green lights, the three comedians look something like a girl band, with Cohen and Harrison fretting about the exposure factor of their micro-minidresses and Jouhari joking that her all-black ensemble makes her look “like a stage manager.”

Before the show, Vogue sat down with the It’s a Guy Thing players to ask about what they want for Christmas and how best to decorate for the holidays (hint: keep last year’s decorations).

How did the three of you meet?

Harrison: Mitra and I both went to different colleges in Ohio, and we met doing improv at Oberlin.

Cohen: Then Mitra and I met at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013, fell in love, and then moved to New York at the same time, and Mitra was like, “My friend Patti’s moving here.”

Where are you all based now?

C: I’m in New York.

H: Mitra and I live together in L.A. We’re near Elysian Park, which is great, because Mitra and I are both on the Dodgers.

C: Gorgeous home. Love their couch.

H: We have a lot of cool accent pieces, like, our floor is still covered in boric acid from having fleas when we moved in.

Jouhari: The people who lived there before us left behind a really horrific flea infestation, so we were dealing with that for two months. Which was really good, because it’s already hard to move to a new city, and then when you can’t buy furniture, it’s great.

Are you holiday decorators?

J: I just put stuff up! I put up some lights; I put little stockings on the mantel.

C: I’m very impressed. I have no decor. I had a tree a few years ago, and I still have the pine needles in some of my stuff, so I’m like, that’s plenty.

What’s on your holiday wish lists this year?

C: What do you guys want? Let me think.

H: Like, for the world, or just for us?

C: World peace is what Patti was thinking of.

H: I was thinking that, like, two years ago, and now we have it, so, that’s perfect. Holiday-wise, I’m really just looking forward to being at home and not worrying about anything that’s happening at my job or anything. I have dogs at home in Ohio, so it’s always nice to see them and just be a lump and collect dog hair and dead skin cells.

C: I want a chaise lounge. Velvet. For my act. My friend said I should get one in a color he’s calling “King’s Red,” and I don’t know what that is, but we all agree that’s the right color. Something decadent for the holidays, for once.

J: I want, like, a class. I’ve been taking pottery classes; I’m interested in anything that will make me stop obsessively looking at screens, so, I don’t know. A book? Any book? Therapy?

C: I really just want my parents to help me pay for therapy, but that’s a whole other thing.

Originally Appeared on Vogue