Humor & Cartoons

Shouts & Murmurs

Google Chrome’s Latest Updates

We understand that downloading and re-starting your browser disrupts your workflow, but you weren’t working anyway.

By Talib Babb

Shouts & Murmurs

The Least-Wanted Items at My Parents’ Estate Sale

Seventeen years’ worth of National Geographics, stacked by my father in order of “least to most erotic.” Price: $400.

By Brian Braiker

Shouts & Murmurs

What Your Swimwear Says About You

Yellow polka-dot bikini: you were deeply affected by a Yoplait Light commercial as a youth and consider this suit to be the physical manifestation of confidence.

By Madeline Goetz and Viktoria Shulevich

Shouts & Murmurs

First-Date Montage

Yes, I am odd, but I am still multifaceted.

By Mads Horwath

Shouts & Murmurs

Everything That Will Happen After I Silence My Phone at the Movie Theatre

The customer-service representative from whom I’ve been waiting for a callback for fifty-three hours will call me back one minute before I turn my phone back on.

By Meg Reid

Daily Cartoons

1/15

“These popcorn buckets are getting ridiculous.”

Cartoon by Ellen Liebenthal

Cartoon Caption Contest

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Celebrity Caption Contest

Jon Hamm Enters the Caption Contest

The actor tries his hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.

By The New Yorker

Celebrity Caption Contest

Zoe Saldaña and Zach Galifianakis Enter the Caption Contest

The “Missing Link” stars try their hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.

By The New Yorker

Celebrity Caption Contest

Danny DeVito Enters the Caption Contest

The actor, producer, and director tries his hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.

By The New Yorker

Celebrity Caption Contest

John Early Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest

The comedian tries his hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.

By The New Yorker

Cartoons from the Issue

1/14

“Madeline plays strictly for her own amusement.”

Cartoon by Edward Frascino

Shorts & Murmurs

A “12 Inch Pianist” Walks Into a Bar

Lucas Ansel’s stop-motion short reveals a few fellow-drinkers’ deepest desires in this reimagined Shouts & Murmurs classic.

Film by Lucas AnselText by Emma Allen

Shouts & Murmurs

It’s Time to Check In for Your D.E. Eye Exam

This vision test is far from routine—don’t forget that racism starts in the retinas.

Film by Jed Feiman and Nehemiah Markos

Shorts & Murmurs

Maybe She’s Born With It. Maybe It’s . . . Something Else

Some women seem to have it all. How do they make it look so effortless?

Film by Elizabeth Zephyrine McDonough

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

It’s A Racquet

1/18

Cartoon by Frank Modell

Back at It

Shouts & Murmurs

Back-to-Introversion Sale

When the kids go back to school, I’m going back to introversion.

By Talib Babb

Shouts & Murmurs

Why Shouldn’t We Let Demons Do Homework?

Using a demon is not cheating. Cheating is pawning off somebody else’s work as your own. A demon is not “somebody.” A demon is a being of pure malice.

By Charlie Dektar

Shouts & Murmurs

Can All the Sad Adults Please Step Away from Our Back-to-School Display?

Just a super-friendly reminder to all you emotionally stunted adults still wondering where your childhood went.

By Kathryn Kvas

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Dear Parents

Everyone is going to get pink eye eventually! And at Kinderkids Nursery School your child might even pick up a case of pirate’s gastroenteritis. Rest assured that we’ll keep you posted.

By Claire Friedman and Max Feldman

Comics

Blitt’s Kvetchbook

Trump and Carney Face Off

Don’t discount the underdog.

By Barry Blitt

Sketchbook

A Crossword Odyssey

Alas, I’d left my épée on a wee mesa in SoHo.

By Roz Chast

Blitt’s Kvetchbook

POTUS on the Move

And no one’s the wiser.

By Barry Blitt

Blitt’s Kvetchbook

Where Wild Things Go

Rummaging through the classics.

By Barry Blitt

More Humor

Shouts & Murmurs

Admissions Tour: Being a Person

In the real world, you can choose your meal plan: vegan, kosher, Sustainable, Totally Unsustainable, What Zendaya Eats in a Day, American Girl Doll food. Just swipe your card.

By Jessica Bacal

Shouts & Murmurs

Help—I’m a Narrator Stuck in the Calm.com Meditation App!

Sure, rhythmic, pattering rain can help regulate your nervous system, and trigger your autonomous sensory meridian response, but me? I’m wet.

By Erita Chen

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America!: Newly Declassified Secrets from the C.I.A.’s Ice-Cream Archives

Orange-creamsicle lovers and a cult of soft-serve radicals, revealed.

By Ali Fitzgerald

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Instructions for Pet-Sitting My Dog, Cerberus

It’s just an old habit for him to block the front door. If he’s stationed there, do not order delivery.

By Brandon Follick

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Eat the Lotus!

Times editors realized that, unless emergency procedures were initiated, the next day’s edition would contain not a single article about Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”!

By Anthony Lane