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The Comedians Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy

Kliph Nesteroff

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Monday Morning Podcast

It was described as unbelievable, particularly for those interested in stand-up comedy, with stories from the vaudeville era and beyond, including anecdotes about lesser-known comedians.

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And I'm only in I read the forward and Into the first chapter and if you're into stand-up comedy This book so far it seems un-fucking-believable. It's called the comedians Drunks thieves scoundrels in...

— Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcas...

Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 11-19-15

It was described as unbelievable, particularly for those interested in stand-up comedy, with stories from the vaudeville era and beyond, including anecdotes about lesser-known comedians.

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And I'm only in I read the forward and Into the first chapter and if you're into stand-up comedy This book so far it seems un-fucking-believable. It's called the comedians Drunks thieves scoundrels in the history of American comedy by Cliff K L I pH Nesterov

I have to tell you already. I'm absolutely blown away by just the stories from the vaudeville days and Even like in the middle of the book when I'm looking at these pictures Of some of these comics that I never heard of

the name of the book is the comedians by cliff kliph Nestor off n e s t like nest like what a bird sits in till it gets booted out by its mother nest er off

It's not of it's not Nestor of its Nestor off

There's already just looking at the pictures. I didn't know Joan Rivers was was not in a comedy team. She was in a comedy almost troop with two other fucking guys and She lasted six months with them before she's just like yeah, fuck this. I'm out So I can't wait to read the rest of that.

Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 1-4-16

It's a book about the history of stand-up comedy, which the speaker found enjoyable, but also challenging due to having to research many unfamiliar names.

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that comedian book that I mentioned I have it downstairs it's like the history of stand-up comedy

it's called the comedians drunks thieves scoundrels in the history of American comedy

Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 11-19-15

Bill Burr discussed the book in the context of stand-up comedy history, focusing on stories from vaudeville and the careers of lesser-known comedians.

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And I'm only in I read the forward and Into the first chapter and if you're into stand-up comedy This book so far it seems un-fucking-believable. It's called the comedians Drunks thieves scoundrels in the history of American comedy by Cliff K L I pH Nesterov

I have to tell you already. I'm absolutely blown away by just the stories from the vaudeville days and Even like in the middle of the book when I'm looking at these pictures Of some of these comics that I never heard of

the name of the book is the comedians by cliff kliph Nestor off n e s t like nest like what a bird sits in till it gets booted out by its mother nest er off

It's not of it's not Nestor of its Nestor off but uh, it seems great so far and There's already just looking at the pictures. I didn't know Joan Rivers was was not in a comedy team. She was in a comedy almost troop with two other fucking guys and She lasted six months with them before she's just like yeah, fuck this. I'm out So I can't wait to read the rest of that.

Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 11-19-15

It was described as unbelievable, especially the stories from the vaudeville era, and the author's writing was well-received by Bill Burr.

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And I'm only in I read the forward and Into the first chapter and if you're into stand-up comedy This book so far it seems un-fucking-believable.

It's called the comedians Drunks thieves scoundrels in the history of American comedy by Cliff K L I pH Nesterov and

I have to tell you already. I'm absolutely blown away by just the stories from the vaudeville days and Even like in the middle of the book when I'm looking at these pictures Of some of these comics that I never heard of

the name of the book is the comedians by cliff kliph Nestor off n e s t like nest like what a bird sits in till it gets booted out by its mother nest er off

It's not of it's not Nestor of its Nestor off

Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 1-4-16

It was described as a book about the history of stand-up comedy and was taking some time to get through due to researching unfamiliar names.

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that comedian book that I mentioned, I have it downstairs, it's like the history of stand-up comedy.

the comedians, drunks, thieves, scoundrels and the history of American comedy.

Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 11-19-15

Bill Burr discussed this book about the history of American comedy, particularly enjoying the stories from the vaudeville era and the anecdotes about comedians he had never heard of before.

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And I'm only in I read the forward and Into the first chapter and if you're into stand-up comedy This book so far it seems un-fucking-believable. It's called the comedians Drunks thieves scoundrels in the history of American comedy by Cliff K L I pH Nesterov

I have to tell you already. I'm absolutely blown away by just the stories from the vaudeville days and Even like in the middle of the book when I'm looking at these pictures Of some of these comics that I never heard of

the name of the book is the comedians by cliff kliph Nestor off n e s t like nest like what a bird sits in till it gets booted out by its mother nest er off

It's not of it's not Nestor of its Nestor off

There's already just looking at the pictures. I didn't know Joan Rivers was was not in a comedy team. She was in a comedy almost troop with two other fucking guys and She lasted six months with them before she's just like yeah, fuck this. I'm out So I can't wait to read the rest of that.

Adam Carolla Show

Adam Carolla mentioned receiving a pre-release copy of Cliff Nesterhoff's new book, 'Outrageous', which discusses the history of cancel culture and how it relates to comedy.

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You must have had Cliff Nesterhoff on he wrote the book the comedians

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Episode: Doug Stanhope + Chris Robert Riegel | Border Walls...

Adam Carolla mentioned receiving a pre-release copy of Cliff Nesterhoff's new book, 'Outrageous', which discusses the history of cancel culture and how it relates to comedy.

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You must have had Cliff Nesterhoff on he wrote the book the comedians

I got a pre copy of his new book called outrageous And it's basically the history of cancel culture where everyone's like freedom of speech is like fine And you know, they're killing it. You can't do comedy nothing and he goes through the history back in to black face and Minstrel shows through vaudeville and all the times that people said this is the end of freedom of speech

It's called outrageous. I think it comes out in November

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