{"id":261454,"date":"2026-04-10T18:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261454\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T18:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:51:07","slug":"encore-oakland-comedian-jackie-keliiaa-on-pain-punchlines-and-her-good-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261454\/","title":{"rendered":"Encore: Oakland Comedian Jackie Keliiaa on Pain, Punchlines, and Her \u2018Good Medicine\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-california-report-magazine\/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, we\u2019re revisiting a conversation from September 2025 with Oakland comedian Jackie Keliiaa. She\u2019s a stand-up, writer, actor, and producer whose work not only reflects on her everyday life, but also her Native heritage. She\u2019s been featured on Comedy Central, Team Coco, Netflix and IllumiNative\u2019s list of 25 Native American Comedians to Follow, and she organizes the all-Native comedy show, Good Medicine. Host Sasha Khokha sat down with Keliiaa for a conversation about comedy, identity, and how laughter can help keep us going during hard times.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to more conversations in our resilience series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/tag\/resilience\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast. This week, we\u2019re&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-261454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}