Navajo comic Marc Yaffee tells a joke about being born and raised not on a reservation but in “a small fishing village on the Pacific Coast called Los Angeles.” When people ask him whether he prefers ...

NBC has picked up a single-camera comedy pilot based at a Native American community center, Variety has learned exclusively.

Josh Emerson walks toward the microphone at a comedy show at Bierstadt Lagerhaus after being introduced as Denver’s funniest Native. He’s carrying a sword while smiling and yelling as he approaches ...

A few days after the Super Bowl, Tai Leclaire, a Mohawk-Mi’kmaq Native American, tweeted about the irony of the NFL’s slogan “End Racism” stenciled on the field’s end zone just above the word “Chiefs.

The question arises with urgency after siblings Shadi (Elena Yazzie) and Broder (Nathaniel TwoBears) are temporarily cast into the spirit world during an intervention. Broder does not speak his family ...

NBC‘s comedy pilot set at a Native American community center in Oakland has found its first four cast members. Variety has learned exclusively that Jana Schmieding, Bobby Wilson, Wes Studi, and Rachel ...

A comedy pilot for NBC is scheduled to film in Portland in late May, and according to social media posts, the casting company working on the project is seeking men, women and children of Native ...

The official logline for the pilot states that it is “An ensemble comedy set at a Native community center in Oakland, Calif. The employees hustle to keep the lights on while lifting up those in need.” ...