In April 2014, the now defunct @ColbertReport account (run by Comedy Central) tweeted, “I am willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever.” The tweet stemmed from a segment of The Colbert Report during which the host, comedian Stephen Colbert, critiqued Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder for refusing to change the name of his NFL team, despite outrage from indigenous communities, instead opting to develop The Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation “to address the challenges that plague the Native American community.” In response to the tweet, Asian American activist Suey Park devised #CancelColbert to “critique white liberals who use forms of racial humor to mock more blatant forms of racism.” In support of Park, Dr. Brittney Cooper claims, “We never get to tell the harmed group what the proper response to racial injury should be for them.” Conversely, the staff at the Indian Country Today Media Network argued that Park’s tweets “drowned out the Native voice.” This, however, is just one example of the debates that ensue regarding the implications of comedy, especially when it is entrenched in discourses about race, gender, sexuality, and other social, cultural, and political markers. This course, then, will provide a space for students to participate in conversations that are concerned with comedy, including stand-up, situation comedies, film, and other forms, as a contentious and contradictory space with resistive, generative, and problematic qualities.