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The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 303: Joey Clift & Getting Your Humorous Book on Native American Culture and History on College Reading Lists

October 1, 2026

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While it’s something to note when good comedy folks publish books, it’s a whole other, even more amazing thing to note when their book is such good “edutainment” that it gets on college reading lists before it’s actually released. That’s what happened with the amazing writer/performer Joey Clift and his upcoming book We’ve Been Here the Whole Time: A Not So Sacred Guide to All Things Native America, which hilariously lives up to the title (and then some). We get into Joey’s journey into making this milestone book not only happen, but get such rave response ahead of it hitting bookstore shelves.

Follow Joey @joeycliiiiiift on IG and get his amazing book We’ve Been Here the Whole Time: A Not So Sacred Guide to All Things Native America here.

Produced by Jake Kroeger
Music by Brian Granillo
Artwork by Andrew Delman and Jake Kroeger
Photo by Andrew Max Levy

Pick of the Day: Thanks But No Thanksgiving (in NYC) 11/20

November 11, 2021

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We sincerely hope that, at this point in time, especially with all the reckoning that we all were supposed to be going through with racism in America, that you know the history behind Thanksgiving isn’t the idyllic picture that you were very likely shown when you were a kid.

That said, there’s a comedy show coming up that’s being put up by all Native American comedians on Lenape land at Union Hall. Brian Bahe, Dash Turner, Tai Leclaire will put on this non-Thanksgiving holiday variety show that will still be a great time, but free of any whitewashed American Turkey Day make-em-ups.

Thanks But Not Thanksgiving: A Native American Variety Show is set for Sat. Nov. 20th at 7:30PM ET at Union Hall. Tickets are $10, $12 on the day of.

Also, the event says “One free horse per audience member.” You should go for a lot of reasons, but one of those reasons should definitely be to find out if you actually get a horse of some kind.

Get tickets here now.