We had a little real estate problem: the unheralded story of Native Americans in comedy

Jonny Roberts drives five hours to every gig and five hours back

"Degrading, demoralizing, and degenerating"

The 1491s in their underwear

Vaudeville was fraud-ville

Adrianne Chalepah pays the price for correcting her history teacher

Will Rogers's grandpa is murdered in a vengeance killing

Jonny Roberts is nervous in San Berdoo

Will Rogers learns rope tricks from an enslaved person

Jackie Curtiss breaks Ed Sullivan's foot

Will Rogers takes a fateful flight with a one-eyed pilot

Dakota Ray Herbert listens to Jeff Foxworthy on her Walkman

Jim Thorpe demands only American Indians for American Indian parts

From meteorology to the Upright Citizens Brigade with Joey Clift

Will Rogers Jr.hated analogies to his father

Charlie Hill orders a ventriloquist dummy

Brian Bahe goes onstage twelve times a week

Davy Crockett brainshwashes the kids

Lucas Brown Eyes sells a sitcom pilot

Charlie Hill is inspired by Bob Newhart and other political radicals

Paul LIttlechief's only ambition is to be the "First American Indian comedian"

The Trickster figure causes people to fart when they're most keen to impress

F-Troop represents the f-word

Williams and Ree perform for thirteen people at the Holiday Inn

Charlie Hill and the bearded comedian in a rusty, red truck

Williams and Ree are desperate to get on Carson

Charlie Hill asks Barney Miller to free Leonard Peltier

Jackie Keliiaa thinks, "Holy shit, this is amazing."

Someone calls the cops on the 1491s

Charlie Hill and the swimming number with Joe Namath

Larry Omaha investigates a foul-mouthed parrot

Terry Ree becomes the first (and last) Native American comedian on Hee-Haw

Ryan McMahon has a life changing experience in Winnipeg (of all places)

Charlie Hill isn't offered anything but crap

The 1491s reluctantly agree to do a Shakespeare festival

Sierra Ornelas sells sitcoms like it's the Santa Fe Indian Market

Vincent Craig performs on the back of a flatbed truck

Isiah Yazzie does improv for an empty room in Shiprock, New Mexico

Howie Miller does impressions. Do you guys like impressions?

The beef with Don Burnstick

Marc Yaffee is weirded out by his own mother

Jonny Roberts quits his job

Netflix summons Adrianne Chalepah to Minnesota

Elaine Miles assumes she was the first woman to do it

Dallas Goldtooth rides his bicycle through Standing Rock and Sterlin Harjo mocks the hippies

Those friendly Canadians send death threats to Williams and Ree

Ralphie May starts a fight and then changes his mind

Charlie Hill phones Mitzi Shore to say good-bye

The 1491s get a standing ovation in a small Oregon town

Jonny Roberts is stunned to see the literal writing on the wall.

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Chauncey Yellow Robe calls it degrading, demoralizing, and degenerating

The 1491s establish themselves in their underwear

Every adult in vaudeville was a fraud, but the kids are alright

Adrianne Chalepah gets kicked out of school for correcting her history teacher

The grandfather of Will Rogers is murdered in a vengeance killing

Jonny Roberts is nervous in San Berdoo

Will Rogers learns rope tricks from a former slave and becomes a huge star

Jackie Curtiss breaks Ed Sullivan's foot

Will Rogers uses the n-word and tells everyone to get over it

Dakota Ray Herbert doesn't bomb as hard as she should have

Jim Thorpe tells Hollywood he's sick of their bullshit

Joey Clift prefers the Upright Citizens Brigade to meteorology

Will Rogers Jr. Wrestles his father's shadow

Charlie Hill orders a ventriloquist dummy

Brian Bahe goes onstage twelve times a week

Davy Crockett brainshwashes the kids

Lucas Brown eyes sells a sitcom pilot

Charlie Hill gets inspired by Bob Newhart and other political radicals

Everyone is shocked to read the news about the Kiowa sensation of the Las Vegas strip

Charlie Hill can't stop farting

The title of F-Troop represents the f-word

Williams and Ree perform for thirteen people at the Holiday Inn

Charlie Hill and the bearded comedian in his rusty, red truck

Williams and Ree are desperate to get on Carson

Charlie Hill asks Barney Miller to free Leonard Peltier

Jackie Keliiaa thinks, "Holy shit, this is amazing."

Someone calls the cops on the 1491s

Charlie Hill remembers the swimming number with Joe Namath

Larry Omaha investigates a foul-mouthed parrot

Terry Ree becomes the first (and last) Native comedian on Hee-Haw

Ryan McMahon has a life changing experience in Winnipeg (of all places)

Charlie Hill isn't offered anything but crap

The 1491s reluctantly agree to do a Shakespeare festival

Sierra Ornelas sells sitcoms the way she sold jewelry at the Santa Fe Indian Market

Vincent Craig performs on the back of a flatbed truck in rural Arizona

Isiah Yazzie does improv for an empty room in Shiprock

Howie Miller does impressions. Do you guys like impressions?

Everyone has their beef with Don Burnstick

Marc Yaffee gets weirded out by his own mother

Jonny Roberts quits his job

Adrianne Chalepah meets Larry Charles in Minnesota

Elaine Miles assumes she was the first Native woman stand-up

Dallas Goldtooth rides his bicycle through Standing Rock

While Sterlin Harjo mocks the hippies

Friendly Canadians send death threats to Williams and Ree

Ralphie May feuds with Adrianne Chalepah and then changes his mind

Charlie Hill phones Mitzi Shore to say goodbye

The 1491s get a standing ovation in a small Oregon town

Jonny Roberts is stunned to see the literal writing on the wall.