The Great American Punchline // Milwaukee

Is the solution to America’s divide…Jokes?

This fun-filled, interactive event and exceptionally hilarious live comedy show is facilitated and performed by comedy giants Negin Farsad, Dylan Adler, Ali Sultan, Corey Ryan Forrester, Maggie Crane and Yasmin Elhady. Prepare to hear heartfelt funny stories about America and learn about finding human connections, and tapping into our humanity, through comedy.

Doors Open: 6pm

Show: 7pm

About the Event Organizers:

(CMSI), based at American University's School of Communication, is a creative innovation lab and research center that creates, studies, and showcases media for equity, social change, and social justice. Focusing on independent, documentary, and entertainment media, the Center bridges boundaries between scholars, producers and communication practitioners across media industries, social justice, public policy, and public engagement. The Center produces resources for the field and academic research; creates original media; convenes conferences and events; and works collaboratively to understand and design media that matter.

is a comedy production engine and knowledge lab that brings together the most talented minds in humor, social justice, entertainment, and philanthropy to collaborate and create comedy and research to help repair the world and build a more just, equitable future. As a program of the Center for Media & Social Impact, GoodLaugh facilitates comedy production, research, and convenings with social justice at the core. By making new comedy, distributing new insights, and bringing together unlikely players to leverage humor for social good, GoodLaugh believes that “laughing in the face of injustice” can solve, well, almost anything.

is a new collaborative hub of 7 smaller, grassroots, legacy, and upstream community organizations (for profit and nonprofit) focused on empowering youth, families, and individuals returning from incarceration.

Host or Publisher Center for Media & Social Impact (CMSI)