The New Yorker cartoon caption contest was meant to be broken
If your plan is to make good comedy, The New Yorker cartoon caption contest doesn’t exactly set you up for success. Each week, the magazine provides a caption-less drawing—usually depicting a weird scenario with no real joke implied—and asks their readers to produce one of those pithy, esoteric punchlines the magazine is famous for. Of course, we all know that one caption that always works is “Hi, I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn,” but that just goes to prove that the caption contest is funniest when it’s being completely broken. Like, let’s say, when kids try their hand at it.
