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Funny cartoons make us laugh ‘cuz they’re true.

February 9, 2023

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) 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.

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.

Good cartoons teach us a lot if we’re willing to learn and laugh at our little foibles and neuroses

December 15, 2020

Cartoons that make us laugh at ourselves are the funniest and wisest. Here’s one I found that caught me by surprise. As soon as I read the second line of the quote below the image I could not stop laughing. Even now, when I think of it, I chuckle to myself. It says a lot!

It was posted on Narrative Magazine‘s Instagram page. The signature at the bottom suggested Sipress. I searched on Instagram and found David Sipress. He’s another cartoonist published in The New Yorker cartoons. I’d seen his work before and think he is a brilliant commentator on life, pointing out the crazy humor in current affairs.

A Case For Pencils interviewed him about his work. They include a link to an audio of him talking about cartoons while taking a yoga class. They also embed a video of a lecture he gave at Williams College Alumni Reunion 2008: Illustrator and cartoonist David Sipress, Class of 1968, discusses the art of cartooning and The New Yorker.

Update: On March 7, 2022, NPR’s Terry Gross interviewed New Yorker cartoonist David Sipress on Fresh Air about his new book, What’s So Funny? A Cartoonist’s Memoir, (March 8, 2022). This show is posted in the Author Interviews Fresh Air March 2022 archive, available as: It took this ‘New Yorker’ cartoonist 25 years to achieve his childhood dream.

I’ve posted other cartoons, light and dark, that tickled my funny bone. This one by Gahan Wilson is another unexpectedly funny New Yorker cartoon—what this fortuneteller tells her client. And this other funny one tellingly depicts our obsession with the past and future, ignoring how to be in the present moment!

The cartoon at the top of this post on my favorite romantic movies is where we go to keep learning our life’s lessons. Towards the bottom of that same post I inserted a related New Yorker cartoon by Roz Chast that perfectly reminds me of Bill Murray waking up each morning in the brilliant little film, Ground Hog Day, but with a twist!

An astute and funny one by Alex Gregory shows us what social media can do to us. And the brilliant cartoons and videos in this post deal with cellphone addiction and love in the digital age.

Rick Hotton, creator of the award-winning cartoon Holy Molé, opens our hearts and minds with insightful humor. Speaking of interfacing with reality through computers instead of our own eyes, this cartoon make us laugh realizing there’s more to life when we’re truly present.

If you’re up for non-stop laughter, check out Instagram’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoons of 2020. It’s in The New Yorker’s 2020 in Review culture section of their December 14 issue. They’re very funny and relatable!!!

This one-minute video from CBC Comedy’s 22 Minutes on how to deal with dietary restrictions at Christmas dinner is hilarious because it’s true!

Cartoon wisdom from Karl Stevens appears in this week’s print edition of The New Yorker. It’s all about learning to live in the moment. Turns out Karl has been doing TM for 7 years. Says it’s completely changed his life for the better, helping him focus on living a cleaner life.

Updated July 13, 2022: David Sipress posted another hilarious cartoon on Instagram about the frustration of trying to express one’s creativity.

August 2, 2022. David Sipress posted today’s very funny newyorker.com Daily Cartoon—what most Americans can’t seem to do when on vacation.


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