EXCERPT
The late comic offended a lot of Native Americans with a bigoted monologue. Then things got interesting when Native American comics came for him.
Kliph Nesteroff is the author of We Had a Little Real Estate Problem and the critically acclaimed book The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy. He has been hailed as the “human encyclopedia of comedy” by Vice and the “king of comedy lore” by Los Angeles magazine.