Kliph Nesteroff, Comedy Historian Talks Cancel Culture in New Book 'Outrageous'

About this episode

Kliph Nesteroff discusses his new book on cancel culture and comedy censorship.

Conversation #187, recorded on November 3, 2023. Kliph Nesteroff is one of the industry's most celebrated comedy historians, here to discuss his newest book about cancel culture and so-called comedy censorship entitled OUTRAGEOUS: A HISTORY OF SHOWBIZ AND THE CULTURE WARS. His previous two books include THE COMEDIANS: DRUNKS, THIEVES, SCOUNDRELS AND THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN COMEDY and WE HAD A LITTLE REAL ESTATE PROBLEM: THE UNHERALDED STORY OF NATIVE AMERICANS AND COMEDY. Kliph has also appeared on screen in documentaries like THE HISTORY OF COMEDY, THE STORY OF LATE NIGHT, GEORGE CARLIN'S AMERICAN DREAM, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT COSBY and ALBERT BROOKS: DEFENDING MY LIFE. He also hosted his own series FUNNY HOW for Vice. OUTRAGEOUS is available starting November 28th from Abrams Press. Hail Satire! is hosted and produced by Vic Shuttee. Further credits at hailsatire.com - Big thanks to Robert Price for our original theme music, Pin Lim for photography and Brendon Duran for the Hail Satire! logo design.

People in this episode

Host: Vic Shuttee

Guest: Kliph Nesteroff

Topics covered

• cancel culture
• comedy history
• culture wars

Keywords

• OUTRAGEOUS
• THE COMEDIANS
• WE HAD A LITTLE REAL ESTATE PROBLEM

Mentioned in this episode

Products: OUTRAGEOUS: A HISTORY OF SHOWBIZ AND THE CULTURE WARS

Books & works: Outrageous, OUTRAGEOUS: A HISTORY OF SHOWBIZ AND THE CULTURE WARS, THE COMEDIANS: DRUNKS, THIEVES, SCOUNDRELS AND THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN COMEDY, THE HISTORY OF COMEDY, THE STORY OF LATE NIGHT, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT COSBY, DEFENDING MY LIFE, FUNNY HOW, Hail Satire

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