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Book World: Native American comedians get their due


Book World: Native American comedians get their due
Donald Liebenson, The Washington Post
Feb. 22, 2021
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By Kliph Nesteroff
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I know a lot of you white people have never seen an Indian do stand-up comedy before, joked Charlie Hill on The Richard Pryor Show in 1977. Like, for so long you probably thought that Indians never had a sense of humor. We never thought you were too funny either.
Hill s TV debut, making him the first indigenous comedian in prime time, is one of the milestones that Kliph Nesteroff chronicles in We Had a Little Real Estate Problem, an illuminating and stereotype-busting history of Native Americans and comedy. ....

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