My love of humor began on the elementary school playground eating a strawberry popsicle with a joke written on the stick (How do you get a tissue to dance? Put a little boogie in it). Decades later, I was able to combine my childhood obsession with jokes with my dissertation, examining the ways in which American artists used comic devices to explore the formation of racial and ethnic identities at the turn of the twentieth century. I asked questions like: how can clowns reveal twentieth-century anxieties about whiteness? What can a photograph showing the “proper” way to drink a beer tell us about artistic self-fashioning? In my classes, I merge my interest in humor, popular culture, and art history, examining topics like the cult of celebrity (who doesn’t love Beyoncé?), comedy specials (should we really “cancel” Dave Chappelle?), and serial killer documentaries (I always knew Amanda Knox was innocent). By encouraging students to make connections beyond the classroom, I show how visual culture shapes and is shaped by our everyday lives.