![]() Like The Comedians, Nesteroff provides a history of one part of American life that also tells the story of something much more vast. The School for Good Mothers (Simon & Schuster) picks up the mantel of writers. Pursuing comedy is a grind, no matter who might be making it, but for the comics in We Had a Little Real Estate Problem (which derives its name from a breathtakingly perfect joke from one of the subjects profiled, Charlie Hill), it’s even tougher when the battles against racism are constant and the voices of one’s community, referring generally to Native Americans, have been systematically and harshly suppressed for centuries. The years best books, including works from Emma Straub, Jennifer Egan. Rather than provide a didactic encyclopedic-style survey of the uses and impact of comedy in Native American communities, Nesteroff takes a descriptive journalism approach, letting comedians tell their stories. Here, then, are the ten best books of the year that are about comedy, are comedy, or were written by comedy people or comedy-adjacent people about comedy-type things.įrom Nesteroff, author of The Comedians, the best and most exhaustive book ever written about stand-up comedy, comes his follow-up, a thoughtful, passionate, and extremely well-researched look at the rarely examined history of Native American comedy. Perhaps we’d exhausted all our screen-entertainment options from the part of the pandemic that occurred in 2020, but it just feels as if we had more time and opportunity to enjoy a book this year - at least more than we’d had in the past. ![]() Maybe it’s because we were all still sheltering in place and locking down for large swaths of the year, but it seems we, as a society, read more in 2021. There arrived works of fiction designed solely to make the reader laugh and feel nice, nonfiction books about the process of provoking laughter, and titles by comedians about how they manage to be funny and stay funny in even the darkest of tough times. Comedy books have always been a means to those ends, and 2021 introduced a number of titles offering much-needed information and entertainment alike. Reading during times of strife - however you choose to define that - can serve two important functions: education and self-medication. ![]() Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos by Publishers
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