Humor & Cartoons

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Have You Saved Enough for Retirement If Your Life Culminates in Decades of Escalating Misfortune?
You need assets that grow in value constantly, like original paintings by legendary artists, or houses that haven’t been carried away by drones or invaded by mastermind insects.

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Reality Shows for Your Thirties

“My Super Sweet 36th Birthday” and “Punk’d: Medical Bills” available for streaming now.


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Mom and Dad: The Performance Review

Accomplished: Mom made partner and ditched skinny jeans; I quit cello and started seventh grade; Dad looked for a job.

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AllTrails Guide to Cringe Mountain

The lower section of this trail is gentle and promises landscape features familiar to most millennials, including plenty of heckin’ puppers and doggos, the crying-laughing emoji, and adulting.
Daily Cartoons
1/15
“Is this the series finale of America, or do you think they’ll release another episode?”
Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad
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“I can’t start anything new until I finish slogging through the best books of 2025.”
Cartoon by Ali Solomon
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Cartoon by P. C. Vey
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“Oh, great—I get sick now that there are no more holiday parties I want to avoid.”
Cartoon by Ali Solomon
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“This doesn’t look good.”
Cartoon by Lynn Hsu
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“O.K., I’ll put that on my calendar and we’ll just keep an eye on the weather and the fall of democracy.”
Cartoon by Teresa Burns Parkhurst
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Cartoon by Liz Montague
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“In my day, we had to use the C.I.A. to secretly finance military coups if we wanted to steal a country’s resources.”
Cartoon by Ivan Ehlers
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“This might just be the beer, but I think I have reason to believe we’re already living in an Orwellian surveillance state.”
Cartoon by Sophie Lucido Johnson and Sammi Skolmoski
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Cartoon by Lia Strasser and Bizzy Coy
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“Here’s to another year of not getting broken in the dishwasher.”
Cartoon by Nathan Cooper
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“It’s ‘big scarf, oversized sweater, puffer jacket, no peripheral vision’ season.”
Cartoon by Sarah Kempa
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“If I wake up screaming in the middle of the night, just remember it’s only because of the way things are.”
Cartoon by P. C. Vey
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“It’s good, but not waiting-an-hour-in-line-freezing-your-butt-off good.”
Cartoon by Anjali Chandrashekar
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“Hold on, let me take a picture to confirm I delivered it.”
Cartoon by Jeremy Nguyen
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Cartoon Caption Contest
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Sarah Sherman Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest
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The comedian tries her hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.

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Amelia Dimoldenberg Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest

The comedian tries her hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.
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John Early Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest
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The comedian tries his hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.

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Ilana Glazer Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest

The actor, writer, and comedian tries her hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.
Cartoons from the Issue
1/17
“If anything should ever happen to me, I want you to look into that guy.”
Cartoon by Dahlia Gallin Ramirez
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“Cuffs? I don’t know who you are with cuffs.”
Cartoon by Michael Maslin
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“I’m bored.”
Cartoon by Harry Bliss
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Cartoon by Edward Steed
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“I could be as famous as Keats if we had a Grecian urn that didn’t suck.”
Cartoon by Joe Dator
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“I knew it. He’s wearing a scribe.”
Cartoon by Paul Noth
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“We’d better clean this up before Mom and Dad find out we weren’t hibernating.”
Cartoon by Amanda Chung
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“Well, we’re all here—what is it you just can’t wait to tell us?”
Cartoon by Frank Cotham
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“I’m looking for a car that’s crazily wide that will torture all the other cars on narrow roads.”
Cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan
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Cartoon by Paul Karasik
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Cartoon by Debora Szpilman
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“Technically, we’re just two people having a conversation at a coffee shop, but if we talk loud enough the room might collectively think, Wow, they should have a podcast.”
Cartoon by Colin Tom
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Cartoon by Roz Chast
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“O.K., so I’m twelve. Why do you always drag my age into it? I never drag your age into it.”
Cartoon by Barbara Smaller
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“The glass isn’t to keep shoplifters out—it’s to keep that guy in.”
Cartoon by Ellie Black
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“I’m going to drop Sam off at two, and then pick up Ellie at two-thirty-five, which should leave me just enough time to do absolutely nothing.”
Cartoon by Adam Douglas Thompson
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“Nice try.”
Cartoon by Jason Adam Katzenstein
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Must-See

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Netflix: TV Shows Recommended Hyper-Specifically for You

Each episode features the full four-hour audio of “The Dr. Frasier Crane Show,” as well as Niles Crane drinking a latte in every scene.

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So, After All This Time, You’ve Come Crawling Back to Cable

Lucky for you, our cable company has a generous corporate culture, so we’ll consider the idea of you signing back up with us.

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Realistic TV Ratings

TV-AWK: Program may include intense sexual situations; parents are advised to watch in a different room than their children.

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You Have to Watch This Show

It picks up around the fourth episode, after they kill off Secondary Character You’d Kind of Thought Was Going to Be a Main Character.
Comics


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Book Recommendations for Men

Maybe the fellas should pick up “Belch! An Oral History of the Burp.”

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Bill Clinton’s M10: The Story Behind My Favorite Cartoon

When the cartoon appeared, it attracted immediate attention.
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More Humor

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Updated Rules for Children at Our Brewery

Our chairs are for sitting on, not for constructing elaborate forts.

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The Boyosphere

On today’s episode of the podcast, why mommies are obsolete and naps are for the weak.

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A Day in My Highly Optimized, Convenient Life

With a single tap on the screen, I open the blinds, with another, I turn on the espresso machine, and with a third, I review the footage from my Ring camera.

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Finishing School: Hands Off Our Pencils

Given the wild fluctuations in the market, I did what anyone with a crippling dependence on pencils would do: I took inventory.

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“All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Edited by Someone in Couples Therapy

Oh, I won’t ask for much this Christmas, mainly because “asking” suggests that you’re doing me a favor, when, in actuality, I’m setting some healthy boundaries.

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Dear Pepper: Slaying the Self-Doubt Dragon

It is easier for me to write my truth than to speak it.

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Premeditated

Close your eyes. Breathe in. Experience “Titanic” and “The Wizard of Oz” the Chloé Zhao way.

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The Disruptors Behind Radiohead’s Art

Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood discuss how, for thirty years, they’ve crafted the visuals that helped define Yorke’s band, many of which are now on view at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum.

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Holiday Movies We’re Going to Skip

“A Child’s Christmas in a Waymo,” “Alan Dershowitz Is Coming to Town,” and more.

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So You Want to Come to My New Vinyl-Listening Bar

You may get up to use the restroom, but only between sides. During songs, please remain still. Any movement above shoulder level will be interpreted as dance.