The Comedic Mark of the Last Century

The Leonard Lopate Show | Nov 9, 2015

Kliph Nesteroff explores the way comedians have reflected, shaped, and changed American culture over the past hundred years. The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy covers a century of American comedy with real-life characters, forgotten stars, mainstream heroes and counterculture iconoclasts.

EVENT: On Wednesday, November 11, Kliph Nesteroff will be in conversation with Robert Smigel at the New York Comedy Festival at Union Hall, 702 Union St., Brooklyn, New York 11215 at 7:30 P.M.

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