Authors


Kliph Nesteroff

Kliph Nesteroff has been called the “premier popular historian of comedy” by the New York Times. He is the author of two previous books, The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy, a definitive volume, and We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy. His work has been praised by comedy legends from Gilbert Gottfried to Mel Brooks to Norm Macdonald.
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Outrageous

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