Amador County – The Jackson Rancheria Casino & Hotel brings a trio of award-winning Indian comics for an Oct. 1 show, the “Pow Wow Comedy Jam.”
Carol Cook of JRC Marketing said people can “follow the Trail of Laughs” and “experience the sacred clowns of the past delivered through the modern comedy voices of the present.”
Named 2010 National Indian Gaming Association Entertainers of the Year, Pow Wow Comedy Jam “delivers all-out laughs Indian-style.” All three appeared on the historic Showtime special, “Goin’ Native: The American Indian Comedy Slam.” The show is “clean and hilarious,” Cook said.
Pow Wow Comedy Jam features Marc Yaffee (Aztec/Navajo), Howie Miller (Cree) and Vaughn Eaglebear (Colville/Lakota).
Yaffee said he “was adopted at birth and has been confused ever since.” He pokes fun at the seemingly endless contradictions in his life.
“I’m a Mexican Irish Navajo, Mexi-jo,” Marc Yaffe said. “My ancestors exploited my own ancestors. I feel guilty and oppressed.”
“A lady asked me after a show, is it true you Navajos in your travels, you’re guided by outer voices? I’m like: Yeah, it’s called an On-star Navigation System.”
Vaughn Eaglebear, nicknamed the Frybread Assassin, and his original brand of one-liner comedy, is unconventional and thought-provoking. An accomplished Pow Wow drummer and emcee, Eaglebear also wrote the song “John Wayne’s Teeth” for the movie “Smoke Signals.”
“The Cleveland Indians are going to change their name,” Eaglebear said. “They don’t want to be known as a team that perpetuates racial stereotypes. From now on they’re just going to be called the Indians.”
Howie Miller, one of Canada’s top comedians, has performed at top Canadian festivals, including Winnipeg Comedy Festival, Halifax Comedy Festival, and Montreal Just For Laughs Festival.
Miller’s landed a role on the Canadian hit show “Caution May Contain Nuts” and is one of the writers. “Survivor, I can’t stand that show,” he said. “No Indians…It’s probably a good idea, because they’re not gonna vote me off the island. They’re just gonna vote me to the crappy part of the island and leave me there for 200 years.”
General admission is $40. Dreamcatcher’s Club members can get half off tickets.
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