Evi -- New Yorker cartoons were funny for the longest time. The great change for the worse came with that Brit editor, can't think of her name. Now she's moved on to destroy other rags or digital mags.
I have found New Yorker cartoons funny for decades. Charles Addams' cartoons still make me laugh. The works of Booth and Peter Arno and Sam Gross and countless others are still funny to me. Steinberg, Gahan Wilson, John Held (yeah, you're going to have to look him up), Chon Day, Whitney Darrow and Thurber, just to name a few, were brilliant.
I have found New Yorker cartoons funny for decades. Charles Addams' cartoons still make me laugh. The works of Booth and Peter Arno and Sam Gross and countless others are still funny to me. Steinberg, Gahan Wilson, John Held (yeah, you're going to have to look him up), Chon Day, Whitney Darrow and Thurber, just to name a few, were brilliant.
Aren't most of those guys dead?
Lem said...
What a difference a year makes.
Perhaps less than we think. Black Narcissus' latest venture into Social Justice is getting considerable pushback.
The New Yorker is basically the epitome of elitist limousine liberalism. A quarter of it is 7-point font advertising local art crapola, and the rest are stories of varying relevance to anyone not down with the Hillary-i-zation of America. All humor is highbrow snark custom-designed for as much plausibly deniable subtlety as possible, usually aimed at the unwashed and somehow unrefined. And then there's a sob story on prisons or wrongly convicted teenage child molesters or some other irrelevant piece to break up the proud badge of moral disregard.
Exceptions are Jill Lepore, George Packer and, and... well, I'm sure there's one other exception in there. But in general it's a package of every stereotype you've heard about the "New York Values" prevailing south of Canal Street and north of 42nd. Just a living stereotype of half of everything detestable about New York.
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Are the cartoons in that edition still funny? Were they ever funny?
Evi -- New Yorker cartoons were funny for the longest time. The great change for the worse came with that Brit editor, can't think of her name. Now she's moved on to destroy other rags or digital mags.
Tina Brown
I have found New Yorker cartoons funny for decades. Charles Addams' cartoons still make me laugh. The works of Booth and Peter Arno and Sam Gross and countless others are still funny to me. Steinberg, Gahan Wilson, John Held (yeah, you're going to have to look him up), Chon Day, Whitney Darrow and Thurber, just to name a few, were brilliant.
Are the cartoons in that edition still funny? Were they ever funny?
I thought the Belly Flop one was funny.
But anything written in The New Yorker is pretty much a joke. Almost self-parody.
It all goes to show how off-guard and smugly complacent Trump caught the media. They're still "smarting."
"Smarting" having nothing to do with intelligence. The verb comes to us via the same root as the German schmerzen = "to hurt" or "to pain."
What a difference a year makes.
Where's Fiorina?
Sixty Grit said...
I have found New Yorker cartoons funny for decades. Charles Addams' cartoons still make me laugh. The works of Booth and Peter Arno and Sam Gross and countless others are still funny to me. Steinberg, Gahan Wilson, John Held (yeah, you're going to have to look him up), Chon Day, Whitney Darrow and Thurber, just to name a few, were brilliant.
Aren't most of those guys dead?
Lem said...
What a difference a year makes.
Perhaps less than we think. Black Narcissus' latest venture into Social Justice is getting considerable pushback.
Tina Brown.
The New Yorker is basically the epitome of elitist limousine liberalism. A quarter of it is 7-point font advertising local art crapola, and the rest are stories of varying relevance to anyone not down with the Hillary-i-zation of America. All humor is highbrow snark custom-designed for as much plausibly deniable subtlety as possible, usually aimed at the unwashed and somehow unrefined. And then there's a sob story on prisons or wrongly convicted teenage child molesters or some other irrelevant piece to break up the proud badge of moral disregard.
Exceptions are Jill Lepore, George Packer and, and... well, I'm sure there's one other exception in there. But in general it's a package of every stereotype you've heard about the "New York Values" prevailing south of Canal Street and north of 42nd. Just a living stereotype of half of everything detestable about New York.
That rump roast on the hoof asked if they were ever funny. I answered.
@60: You called Evi a "rump roast"? Isn't that sexist?
edutcher asked...Where's Fiorina?
I recall voicing that same concern in protest when the cartoon first appeared. I think Fiorina was a grating non persona in their view at the time.
Was, is, just so long as people remember her as the rat that jumped onto the sinking ship. What a moron. And that face!
Fiorina can't be in the men's locker room.
But she can go to the men's bathroom.
I don't recall A New Yorker with a cartoon mocking Hillary... ever.
Is there one?
chickelit said...
edutcher asked...Where's Fiorina?
I recall voicing that same concern in protest when the cartoon first appeared. I think Fiorina was a grating non persona in their view at the time.
Interestingly, so is Trump.
AprilApple said...
Fiorina can't be in the men's locker room.
But she can go to the men's bathroom.
Nice point.
Sixty, I like the old New Yorker cartoons too. I don't remember his name but one of the current guys is sorta funny.
AprilApple said...I don't recall A New Yorker with a cartoon mocking Hillary... ever.
Is there one?
I looked. Nothing mocking her, just one questioning the purity of her message: linky
The only person worth reading in the New Yorker was Roger Angell. The rest of them were pretentious twats who couldn't hold their liquor.
Rump roast? I don't think Sixty was implying I'm fat. We Scottish Highlands tend to be lean.
Occasionally the New Yorker has an article on some topic you weren't expecting that turns out okay, but for the most part it's overrated.
I only used to read it because I got it for free. They would always leave a couple of copies every month at O'Lunney's.
They were usually great to level out the ice machine.
Chicelit - A red arrow points to ======> Change that splatters. *insert that symbol that looks like a D in the toilet*
Or The Democrat Potty.
***Chickelit
What a difference a year makes.
You took the palabras right out of my boca.
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