Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

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"STOP WATCHING THE FOOTBALL!"

Mark G, Monday, 21 October 2013 09:12 (twelve years ago)

two paces and take one step to the side

conrad, Monday, 21 October 2013 09:22 (twelve years ago)

"I don't remember reading about this in 'Games People Play'!"

not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Monday, 21 October 2013 09:49 (twelve years ago)

"If we have to watch Triumph of the Will one more time..."

Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 21 October 2013 13:26 (twelve years ago)

"why do you refuse to watch televised sport with the real men you bowtie-wearing beardy speccy prick?"

conrad, Monday, 21 October 2013 13:33 (twelve years ago)

"I told you that this combined psychiatry/sports bar was a bad idea!"

not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Monday, 21 October 2013 14:07 (twelve years ago)

"how do you think this makes me feel?"

conrad, Monday, 21 October 2013 14:15 (twelve years ago)

"TOUCHDOWWWWWN!"

#fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Monday, 21 October 2013 14:24 (twelve years ago)

"Yes I know that sports is essentially 'aggression with rules'! Why do you have to psychoanalyse everything?!"

not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Monday, 21 October 2013 14:26 (twelve years ago)

"Oh, there we go, Mister Superego. Did we miss something?"

Insane Prince of False Bel-Air (fake penthouse letters mcgee), Monday, 21 October 2013 14:43 (twelve years ago)

"This cartoon sucks thiiiiiiiis much"

Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 21 October 2013 14:44 (twelve years ago)

"Flacco you bum! Over here! I'm wide open!"

Insane Prince of False Bel-Air (fake penthouse letters mcgee), Monday, 21 October 2013 14:48 (twelve years ago)

IDG why those guys are drawn so close to the television. Contributes to my theory as the caption contest being a dumping ground for reject cartoons.

#fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Monday, 21 October 2013 14:53 (twelve years ago)

I totally believe that theory. I'd love to see if the original captions were any funnier than the winning entries.

Insane Prince of False Bel-Air (fake penthouse letters mcgee), Monday, 21 October 2013 14:58 (twelve years ago)

awful cartoon, not a single decent possible entry (borne out so far, sad to say)

who stole our chess line this time round btw

champagne supernovella (darraghmac), Monday, 21 October 2013 15:09 (twelve years ago)

snoball's one is OK.

Mark G, Monday, 21 October 2013 15:13 (twelve years ago)

with respect sir, it is not.

champagne supernovella (darraghmac), Monday, 21 October 2013 15:16 (twelve years ago)

but we cannot be blamed for it, the cartoon is a wreck

champagne supernovella (darraghmac), Monday, 21 October 2013 15:17 (twelve years ago)

darrghmac, simon cowell of the humourous caption game

Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 21 October 2013 15:20 (twelve years ago)

I see him waving one hand at the cartoonist who is backstage..

Mark G, Monday, 21 October 2013 15:22 (twelve years ago)

i've stormed off in disgust at the standard, as three cameramen and a makeup artist valiantly try to keep up

champagne supernovella (darraghmac), Monday, 21 October 2013 15:31 (twelve years ago)

ok

champagne supernovella (darraghmac), Monday, 21 October 2013 15:31 (twelve years ago)

"Why do we always have to have these sessions during the game?"

champagne supernovella (darraghmac), Monday, 21 October 2013 15:32 (twelve years ago)

"Theess men you see, vot are they doink now?

champagne supernovella (darraghmac), Monday, 21 October 2013 15:32 (twelve years ago)

"I bet all those real men over there have penises THIS long but you don't because you are a bookish man without any love of football nor beer."

champagne supernovella (darraghmac), Monday, 21 October 2013 15:36 (twelve years ago)

chrisht this is a poor cartoon

champagne supernovella (darraghmac), Monday, 21 October 2013 15:36 (twelve years ago)

Is it only the football team that gives you these feelings of jealousy or do you think your husband enjoys other types of jets with his friends?

gotta lol geir (NickB), Monday, 21 October 2013 15:50 (twelve years ago)

"Theess men you see, vot are they doink now?

I like this one if it's the woman speaking.

Insane Prince of False Bel-Air (fake penthouse letters mcgee), Monday, 21 October 2013 15:54 (twelve years ago)

"I've heard of having art in a therapist's office, but that cardboard cutout of three men watching television is just distracting!"

#fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Monday, 21 October 2013 15:55 (twelve years ago)

"When I said that the English football team needed their heads examined, this isn't what I had in mind!"

not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Monday, 21 October 2013 15:57 (twelve years ago)

"This happens every time The Wiggles are on!"

Insane Prince of False Bel-Air (fake penthouse letters mcgee), Monday, 21 October 2013 15:59 (twelve years ago)

"I don't feel that this is appropriate"

champagne supernovella (darraghmac), Monday, 21 October 2013 16:00 (twelve years ago)

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2013/10/21/g290/131021_contest_g290.jpg

  • "Who has the floor?"
  • "Why not? We defy every other law."
  • "Good, very good. Now let's all try to think it back into the box."

Mark G, Monday, 28 October 2013 10:05 (twelve years ago)

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2013/11/04/p465/131104_contest_p465.jpg

"They still look nothing like your cave paintings"

Mark G, Monday, 28 October 2013 10:06 (twelve years ago)

"We might need glasses."

a dessicated quasi-tsunami of gut-busting cosmic - tech (DJP), Monday, 28 October 2013 16:16 (twelve years ago)

"I think we accidentally wandered into XKCD."

Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 28 October 2013 16:17 (twelve years ago)

"are they supposed to be deer?"

conrad, Monday, 28 October 2013 16:24 (twelve years ago)

"Installation art is such tripe."

jmm, Monday, 28 October 2013 16:25 (twelve years ago)

"Don't worry, the real deer are still on my laptop"

Mark G, Friday, 1 November 2013 11:05 (twelve years ago)

"We'll need at least four to complete our Tetris set."

Øystein, Friday, 1 November 2013 11:30 (twelve years ago)

"Try for a clean shot or we'll get a wrecked angle"

Øystein, Friday, 1 November 2013 11:31 (twelve years ago)

"this triangulation method is working like a charm"

midwife christless (darraghmac), Friday, 1 November 2013 11:34 (twelve years ago)

"they'll cgi in the real deer in post and - voila - paleolithic park"

conrad, Friday, 1 November 2013 12:17 (twelve years ago)

"We all start off with rectangles -- with time you'll move on to more complex polygons and before you know it you'll be skinning hypercubes with Grogh."

Øystein, Friday, 1 November 2013 12:25 (twelve years ago)

"I miss skeuomorphism."

Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 1 November 2013 12:30 (twelve years ago)

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2013/10/28/g290/131028_contest_g290.jpg

  • "I'd like to try group therapy with a different group."
  • "I don't need therapy—I just need the remote!"
  • "This is why I didn't want a Monday-night appointment!"

Mark G, Monday, 4 November 2013 12:24 (twelve years ago)

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2013/11/11/p465/131111_contest_p465.jpg

Mark G, Monday, 4 November 2013 12:25 (twelve years ago)

"Bang! Bang! Bang! heh....heh...Bang!"

midwife christless (darraghmac), Monday, 4 November 2013 12:32 (twelve years ago)

"Skype-ing again, huh? I remember when we had to make trunk calls"

In times of osterity, these Eton-educated poshboys (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 4 November 2013 12:46 (twelve years ago)


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