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Winning the contest is notoriously difficult - writers have to generate a quip that’s funny, but also perfectly mimics the magazine’s sensibilities. “I don’t get this.”Įach week The New Yorker runs a cartoon contest on its back page, where the publication invites readers to submit captions to cartoons drawn by the magazine’s illustrators. The caption is quintessential New Yorker - at once disarmingly simple and obstinately urbane a neatly packaged gauge of a reader’s familiarity with the mores and concerns of the cultural elite. The cat is saying, "I’ve enjoyed reading your email." Though we never see the cartoon in question, for anyone familiar with The New Yorker cartoons, it’s easy enough to imagine. In the cartoon, a dog and a cat are in an office. "And you’re on the fringe of the humor business!" Elaine exclaims. Elaine pulls out a copy of The New Yorker, points to a cartoon and says, "I don't get this." "Me neither," Jerry says after some inspection. Television personality Dick Wolfsie writes this weekly column for the Daily Journal.In one of Seinfeld’s last episodes, Elaine and Jerry sit in their favorite diner. Dennis is proud of himself, though he does keep his accomplishment in perspective: “If I had to do a 53rd Bicentennial Minute, it wouldn’t be about this.” Three weeks later, here were the semifinalists:Ģ: “You got yourself here. After he sent off his entry, his daughter told him it was actually a Google self-driving car, which made Dennis think he had not taken that into account in his caption. In fact, the New Yorker uses a computer program to weed out the most-used words in order to narrow it to three finalists.ĭuring a quick ride in his office elevator, Dennis came up with another idea based on the premise that this was a circus clown car. In the cartoon, a therapist is talking to her patient, not a human, but a sub-compact car, parked on the couch.ĭennis admitted that his first inclination was to have the doctor make some comment about the car feeling inadequate because of its size, a somewhat risqué reference, but Dennis knew that the magazine would reject this caption - not because it was racy but because it was too obvious. It comes quickly or not at all,” Dennis said. But Dennis’ brainstorm came pretty quickly. Rachel had made a copy of the cartoon and carried it around for a week, hoping for inspiration.
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“You had me at ‘olé,” says the bull, reminiscent of Renée Zellweger’s line in the movie Jerry Maguire, with Tom Cruise. The previous Hoosier winner, Rachel Loveman, had tried a dozen times, then finally landed the honor with her caption for a cartoon that depicted a matador and a bull in a dancing embrace. And, of course, there’s a brand new captionless cartoon to stump us. Each week the magazine features the current winner (based on previous voting) and an opportunity to vote for the next winner. Stephen Colbert is still trying.įrom the entries, The New Yorker picks a trio of semifinalists, then readers are polled to pick the best of the three.
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It frustrates even the professional funny people. Approximately 5,000 people try their hand (and mind) at it each week. Just to review, this weekly competition is an opportunity for readers of this iconic magazine (known for its single-panel cartoons) to write their own captions for a picture drawn by one of the publication’s accomplished artists. Dennis is the second New Yorker caption contest winner from Indianapolis in the past two years. So, all that is great stuff, but here’s what really impressed me. Go to YouTube (Bicentennial Minutes) and search Von Tilzer. By the way, I didn’t know who the Von Tilzer Brothers were, either. In 60 seconds, you get a thumbnail sketch of some Hoosier history such as Crispus Attucks High School, Robert Kennedy’s speech after Martin Luther King’s assassination, Philo Farnsworth (the inventor of television), Red Skelton, James Dean and the Von Tilzer Brothers, to name just a few.
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When I called local advertising executive and film producer Dennis Neary to tell him he was my new hero, he assumed I was a fan of his 52 one-minute bicentennial stories that have aired on TV stations all across Indiana.
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