This is a very funny cartoon with a Jewish New Yorker sense of humor! Emily Carey posted it on her Instagram as Confrontation therapy — imagined by Bob Mankoff. To learn more about this celebrated cartoonist and humorist, visit bobmankoff.com.
In response, Selena Palmer posted a joke, but with this self-deprecating ethnic twist: How many Jewish mothers needed to change a lightbulb?…None…I’ll suffer here, in the dark.
Speaking of suffering, cartoons by David Sipress: thinking one was a writer and the frustration of being one (added at the bottom of that post) both cracked me up.
And when it comes to worrying too much, David Sipress reminds us that things are not as bad as they seem in a funny instructive cartoon.
The antidote to worrying is to learn to live in the moment, which is brilliantly illustrated in a New Yorker cartoon by Karl Stevens.
Speaking of living in the moment, William Haefeli uses humor to deal with memory loss in old age in this New Yorker cartoon.
New Yorker cartoonist Alex Gregory uses humor to show how social media changed the ways we communicate and what that does to us.
Here are some funny cartoons and videos on how cellphones and social media can destroy not build personal relationships.
This hilarious short video from CBC Comedy’s 22 Minutes shows how too many different dietary restrictions at a Christmas dinner can go awry.
Another brilliant cartoonist is Dave Coverly @speedbumpcomic. Here are some funny cartoons: about an old wolf that any senior can relate to; what a young wolf tells another will happen if they play nice with humans; what your dog is up to wondering when you’ll be back home; the frustrations of a wannabe author; and contemplating the central question in the Directory at the Institute of Philosophy, which complements an earlier one about the Center for Reincarnation Studies.
Later added: Gary Larson’s cartoons are funny because they make us see the unexpected humor in things. Then followed up with Cartoonists show us the pressure some people put on their pets and how they try to deal with it. And more recently, More brilliant cartoons from Dave Coverly as he anthropomorphizes a dog and a crash test dummy.
Coming back to Bob Mankoff, his most famous cartoon still makes me laugh. Drawn in 1993, a business executive on the phone looks at his appointment calendar and asks the caller a question.
He would later use that as the title of his memoir. See his March 27, 2014 New Yorker article: The Story of “How About Never”. He concluded the article with a P.S. mentioning his appearance on a CBS show. New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff lets 60 Minutes cameras into the weekly process of picking the magazine’s famous cartoons. The segment in S46 E26 aired the previous Sunday, March 23, 2014.
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