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Kliph Nesteroff

conversations Feb. 19, 2021

Native Comedy Is Happening EverywhereThree Native comedians on being overlooked in the industry and why that’s — sort of — starting to change.

By Megh Wright
July 12, 2017

Studying the Booms and Bombs of Standup Comedy History with Kliph NesteroffDecades before writing The Comedians, a deep dive into the history of American comedy, Kliph Nesteroff was a young standup working out his set […]

By Sydney Parker

June 20, 2017

Check Out the Trailer for Kliph Nesteroff’s Viceland Special ‘Funny How?’The Comedians author Kliph Nesteroff is hosting in a new special premiering on Viceland next month. Titled Funny How?, the special “uses the […]

By Megh Wright
June 5, 2017

‘Classic Showbiz’ Tells the Fascinating Story of Forgotten Gay Comedy […]Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. Comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff’s […]

By Nathan Rabin
May 11, 2016

Inside George Carlin’s Soon-To-Be-Unearthed Archives Two nights before what would have been George Carlin’s 79th birthday, his daughter Kelly gathered people at the Paley Center For Media to […]

By Katla McGlynn
Dec. 30, 2015

The 15 Best Comedy Books of 2015Congratulations on watching all of the comically progressive original shows on Netflix and Amazon, and then listening to every single podcast. […]

By Brian Boone
Nov. 2, 2015

Kliph Nesteroff’s ‘The Comedians’ Untangles the Roots of American StandupProbably the hardest I’ve ever laughed was at an improv show at the Under St. Marks theater in New York in, I think, 2010. UCB improviser and […]

By Eddie Brawley