New Yorker Cartoons

I'm easy. I laughed out loud at Op's cartoon.

Great thread

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I loooooove Roz Chast. Have her autograph.

Has anyone here ever entered (and/or won) their weekly caption contest?

It's one of my goals.

Also, there's a fabulous documentary about the New Yorker's cartoon department -- its editor, the artists, and the selection process for cartoonists -- called "Very Semi-serious." Trailer at link.

Btw, R9, Roz is in the documentary above!

R10. R9 here.

Yes!!! Loved that documentary. AAAAAND...... yes, yours truly won the caption contest in 1992.

Well, the contest was create a disgusting consumer product. My winning entry?

Cap’n Jack’s Fish Soda

Congrats, R9!

And also: EWWWW. I see why you won. ;-)

I might be delusional, but I swear I have seen derivatives of it since then on a few tv shows as a joke.

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The pig says "my wife is a slut."

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Bob Mankoff seems like a real passive aggressive asshole.

Charles Addams was the best!

LOL at most of these.

Years ago I received the giant coffee table book of New Yorker cartoons( a CD of all their published cartoons was included) This thread has prompted me to go through it again. Thanks, OP.

"It's not a saint, exactly. It's Marcella Hazan."

I go for the classics:

I like NY cartoons until I don't "get" one...

Yes that can be too subtle sometimes

The New Yorker put a couple of books out of their rejected cartoons, one is called Cream of the Crap. I bought them for my father one Christmas and it was the best present I ever got him.

Here's one DL can relate to:

One of my favorites is the frog in a little wheeled box pawing(flippering?) its way out of a restaurant kitchen. The sign on the wall says "Try Our Frog Legs."

Cold, but cute.

Wasn't that one from National Lampoon, R33?

Couldn't you lazy arseholes have posted it?

The DL Anthem:

...where everybody knows your diagnosis

So many, but here’s one.

Did someone mention THE NEW YORKER?

How many of YOU have had an article about you written THE NEW YORKER?

Most of these must have been re-captioned because they are actually funny.

I'm too dumb to understand R30.

R41 Easy - because Long John is a “Pi-what.” Hahahahaha

Well, then I'm kinda glad I didn't get it r42.

Sorry for the paywall, commoners. This one’s a premium for the intelligentsia of DL who subscribe to the New Yorker:

Looks like you are the dumb one, R42, not R41.

Opened just fine for me r44.

Perhaps you aren't quite as elite as you think you are.

I think the “pi-what” wordplay in R30 WAS intentional, it’s simply another level of complexity that takes a dig at the math-challenged, a red herring to distract the philistines. Bravo to Miss Mensa who got the joke!

^^Another vague Millennial justification of missing a joke.

The answer to the pirate joke:

R !!!!!!

Hahahahaha - brillant!

^^(Or misunderstanding an expression)

I think the New Yorker has fabulous articles, but the cartoons seemed to be aimed at people on the spectrum who vaguely smell like hotdog water.

There are jokes that are funny, and there are jokes that you snigger at because you understand them and you know that most people don't.

The New Yorker is guilty of publishing some of the latter.

Or rather Arrrrrrgghhh!

I think the math teacher must have thought that pirates say “R!!!” not “arrrrgh,” but I’m more confused as to why he’s not at all concerned that there’s an elderly man in a pirate costume ogling at the young students. In a high school geometry class! They must have very lax security.

It's a geometry/pirate joke. The answer is 'r'. And what do pirates say?

“Ahoy, matey!”

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r42 the class is learning how to calculate the area of a circle (πr squared). So the joke is π "Aargh" squared. So not even very funny.

[quote]I think the New Yorker has fabulous articles

Thank you, R51!

CAN WE GET BACK TO POSTING CARTOONS NOW PLEASE?

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the class is learning how to calculate the area of a circle (πr squared). So the joke is π "Aargh" squared. So not even very funny.

And it's not even correct. Pi r NOT square. Pi are round. Cornbread are square.

"Are we in this Starbucks or the one down the street?"

I tried but failed. Mine got as far as Post, then the international NO symbol showed up. It was from Art.com

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I find this one brilliant. Maybe because I have a cat like this.

Another favourite

My alltime favourite

Ms Lindsey Graham?

I enjoy this website that gives literal captions for New Yorker cartoons.

I don't get r73. Is that a man who enjoys latex/bdsm? Is the partner dressed as a dog in Santa's outfit? (Or is it really the Senatrice?)

this one:

I’m more amused by the people congratulating themselves for knowing high school geometry AND “getting” the most common pirate joke punchline in the world than the cartoon itself. Maybe the humor is supposed to be meta like that?

Those of us of a certain age can relate to this one

R75 -- guess you've never been into S&M, huh?

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When I retired from Merrill Lynch in NYC the dining room staff gave me this in a frame, and said they'd miss me. I doubt they did.

𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭, 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐧, 𝟔𝟒, 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬

Danny Shanahan was arrested by New York State Police in Rhinebeck, New York, on charge of possession of a sexual performance by a child

His arrest came after local police obtained a warrant to search the contents of his computer

Shanahan has been a contract cartoonist at the New Yorker magazine for more than 30 years

In June, Shanahan's son, Render Stetson-Shanahan, 30, was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison for stabbing to death his roommate in 2016

R36, thank you for posting my fave.

I am torn as to buy a print of it.

R15 TheFabulousMissLucy will love that caption!

R9 Congratulations! And I don't doubt the product will be on the market at some point!

R74 Great site - thanks for the link.

I like ones with dogs.

Years ago I framed R3 and gave it to a friend who always complained about the guys he met online.

"Are they still following us?

J'adore George Booth.

My life.

r83, I put it in my basket after I gave my email addy for future offers, and closed the tab.

Then they sent me s further discount coupon.

so, on the way...

From Jack Ziegler:

This one is too good not to share with DL.