Humor & Cartoons

Shouts & Murmurs

How to Be Deep in a Marketable Way

Post vague quotes about self-realization that are universal, but ultimately mean nothing. For instance, “Follow your own light,” with a picture of you holding an unlit match.

By Emily Menez

Shouts & Murmurs

If I Made Novelty T-Shirts

Ever wondered why “I’m with Stupid”? Let me explain.

By Jesse Eisenberg

Shouts & Murmurs

Dear Pepper: Are You There Husband? It’s Me, Wife

Over the years, I’ve begun to feel like a piece of furniture.

By Liana Finck

Shouts & Murmurs

Operation Name That Excursion!

Operation Trump: The War, Operation Gulf War III, Operation Venezuela 2: Atomic Boogaloo, and other runners-up.

By Bruce Handy

Shouts & Murmurs

The Text of E-Mails from My Accountant vs. the Subtext

Hi, your dad’s friend Bill here. Neither your father, nor I, knowing very little about you, have any confidence that you can be expected to handle filing your taxes by yourself.

By Lana Schwartz

Daily Cartoons

1/15

“Oh, wow! A bottle of gasoline!”

Cartoon by Adam Douglas Thompson

Cartoon Caption Contest

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Celebrity Caption Contest

Michael Ian Black Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest

The actor and comedian tries his hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.

By The New Yorker

Celebrity Caption Contest

Sarah Sherman Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest

The comedian tries her hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.

By The New Yorker

Celebrity Caption Contest

Amelia Dimoldenberg Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest

The comedian tries her hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.

By The New Yorker

Celebrity Caption Contest

Ilana Glazer Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest

The actor, writer, and comedian tries her hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.

By The New Yorker

Cartoons from the Issue

1/18

“I wouldn’t have come this way.”

Cartoon by Frank Cotham

Shorts & Murmurs

Screening Room

In “Stickworld,” Sticks Grow on Trees

A short film by Elizabeth Zephyrine McDonough helps viewers discover a new world.

Film by Elizabeth Zephyrine McDonoughText by Emma Allen

Shorts & Murmurs

Friends Who Folk: Click If You’re Politically Aware

It’s important to be aware. But if no one knows how aware you are, does it still count?

By Rachel Wenitsky and Ned Riseley

Shorts & Murmurs

Cartoon Cautionary Tales

Edward Steed animates some of life’s most crucial lessons.

By The New Yorker

Shorts & Murmurs

A Visit with The Talk of the Town

The Most Interesting Man in the World judges ideas for The Talk of the Town.

By The New Yorker

Not All Other Nights

Shouts & Murmurs

Four Questions—Extended Version

Why on this night does the mother-in-law say that the brisket her son’s wife cooked is dry when it is fine?

By Marika Sawyer, Simon Rich, and John Mulaney

Shouts & Murmurs

The Other Children of Passover

The child who found the afikomen before the time to look for it officially began, the influencer child, and the child who, if he could please sit down, we could get started.

By Amy Kurzweil, Jason Adam Katzenstein, and Ellis Rosen

Shouts & Murmurs

A Few More Questions for This Seder

Why is it that, on this night, we have four cups of wine, when I feel like I need so many more?

By Susanna Wolff

Shouts & Murmurs

The Passover Seder You Didn’t Have

Thank you all so much for coming. Like every year, we’re going to go around in a circle and read selections from the Haggadah.

By Julie Shain

Comics

Blitt’s Kvetchbook

Trump Goes Postal

Following the letter of the law.

By Barry Blitt

Sketchbook

A Bingo Card for Spring in New York City

Do you have “UPS Guy in Shorts,” “Stoop Weirdo,” or “Park Teeming with Hinge Dates”?

By Emily Flake

Blitt’s Kvetchbook

Big-Screen Remakes

Fresh from Silicon Valley.

By Barry Blitt

Sketchpad

The Battle Between Good and Evil

Angel or devil, book or TV, tea or Martini—in the eternal conflict, which side wins out?

By Liana Finck

More Humor

Shouts & Murmurs

Schools to Root for After Your Bracket Fails

To keep March Madness interesting, why not go with your mom’s alma mater? Or the college with a celebrity’s kid?

By Talib Babb

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Poems Dictated to My Phone, Mostly While Waiting in My Car

My thirteen-year-old daughter needed a dress for a wedding, so we went to Aritzia in the Short Hills mall.

By Lauren R. Weinstein

Shouts & Murmurs

The Trad-est Wife

I decided I would give my children a traditional spin on Pop-Tarts. I started with the first step of any traditional recipe: screaming.

By Megan Amram

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Probability Calculator: Chances That Your Friend Bails Tonight

“I’ll most likely be able to get there a little after 8!” = Bring granola bars. You’ll eat your first bite of dinner at 9:17 P.M.

By Ellen Harrold

Shouts & Murmurs

Rolling Out Our New A.I. Tools

Internal memo: Meet our new suite of A.I.-optimized losers and douche bags. Although they are fully agentic, we’re sure they will annoy you in all the ways you’re accustomed to.

By Lizzie Widdicombe and Paige Ferrari

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Clickbait, Decoded

“I Turned $10 Into $1,000,000 in One Week—Here’s How!” What it actually means: I very slowly added five zeroes and two commas.

By Jay Martel and Jonathan Stern

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A Birthday-Gift Guide by Your Most Absent Aunt

It totally screams “Maya,” because she’s within driving distance, last I heard, so I probably won’t have to pay for shipping.

By Pratima Mani

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A Day in the Pre-Internet World, as Understood by Someone Born in 2002

When clock radios, film cameras, and the Yellow Pages ruled the world.

By S. M. Reznik

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I Asked ChatGPT and This Is What It Said

It’s so important to care about your health, and you’re so clever to check!

By Natalya Lobanova

Shouts & Murmurs

Honest Eyelash-Curler Reviews

Dang, no lashes left behind with this curler. It even reaches those tiny corner lashes. Lifts, separates—the works. Also, the first time I used this curler, I saw God.

By Fiona Landers