This month’s contest featured a cartoon by Robert Leighton, whose work and insights appear throughout my upcoming book, “Your Caption Has Been Selected—More than anyone could possibly want to know about The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest,” which will be published on June 4, 2024. (I decided to change things up this month by opening…
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Caption Contest Commentary
“Musical Appliances” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
For the first time, our panel of judges did not include Bob Mankoff, who was busy preparing for his daughter Sarah’s wedding. Congratulations to Bob, his wife Cory, and especially Sarah. In the HBO Documentary “Very Semi-Serious,” Sarah recalls a time when she was much younger and told Bob that something he said wasn’t funny,…
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“Zebra Bricks” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
This month our panel of judges included the cartoonist Pat Byrnes, who created what is, in my opinion, one of the best New Yorker cartoons of all time: BUY THIS CARTOON His captionless drawing for our contest is set in Africa, where two zebras with the traditional black and white stripes are looking at a…
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“Canine Graduation” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
This month our panel of judges included the cartoonist Jason Adam Katzenstein. His captionless drawing is set at a graduation ceremony, where a dog is delivering the commencement address to a class of graduating canines. Jason’s original caption mocked the commencement speaker who starts his address by providing the dictionary definition of a word he…
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