Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

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"Thank you for coming to our dinner theater's production of 'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover.'"

EZ Snappin, Monday, 25 March 2013 14:42 (eleven years ago) link

nice -- i wanted to do a dinner theater gag but couldn't come up with the right play.

s.clover, Monday, 25 March 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link

"Henceforth, our hollandaise will be a little darker..."

s.clover, Monday, 25 March 2013 14:46 (eleven years ago) link

"He died doing what he loved: snorting coke and terrorizing line cooks."

s.clover, Monday, 25 March 2013 14:47 (eleven years ago) link

“I have to admit it’s unusual for you all to have flies in your soup.”

Des Fusils Pour Banter (ShariVari), Monday, 25 March 2013 15:20 (eleven years ago) link

"I'd like to welcome you all to our first celebrity chef roast."

EZ Snappin, Monday, 25 March 2013 15:22 (eleven years ago) link

"Ladies and gentlemen, Dennis is served."

Poliopolice, Monday, 25 March 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link

"The backstroke."

No, not sinister (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 28 March 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link

"He died peacefully, in a rich beurre-blanc sauce with roasted new potatoes and haricot vert"

i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Thursday, 28 March 2013 20:16 (eleven years ago) link

Yes

mister borges (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 March 2013 20:19 (eleven years ago) link

those of you who have your heads bowed in prayer shall find your eternal reward in heaven, those of you looking up at me are damned to eternity in hellfire

congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 28 March 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link

this comic sucks. nothing to work with here.

Poliopolice, Thursday, 28 March 2013 21:22 (eleven years ago) link

(the excuse of a coward)

i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Thursday, 28 March 2013 21:22 (eleven years ago) link

sthg punny about a magician sawing him in half, the pain, the irony at stake as they are about to saw into their steaks but i am not punny/funny clearly this is the wrong thread for me lalala

eaumaille, Thursday, 28 March 2013 22:06 (eleven years ago) link

"In conclusion, we can't recommend the soup."

Look, Brian, about the afro wig... (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 March 2013 02:06 (eleven years ago) link

enjoy the fugu.

EZ Snappin, Friday, 29 March 2013 02:12 (eleven years ago) link

"a fitting tribute to a man who in life hated cooking but loved irony"

Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 29 March 2013 02:20 (eleven years ago) link

"the cremation will take place this afternoon, 450 degrees for 25 minutes"

Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 29 March 2013 02:22 (eleven years ago) link

"I'd like to welcome you all to our wake and bake."

EZ Snappin, Friday, 29 March 2013 02:23 (eleven years ago) link

"So much for our daily bread"

mister borges (darraghmac), Friday, 29 March 2013 02:24 (eleven years ago) link

Roberto, those are both great. the second is more suited to the contest, i guess.

s.clover, Friday, 29 March 2013 02:24 (eleven years ago) link

The second one sounds like a winner.

EZ Snappin, Friday, 29 March 2013 02:27 (eleven years ago) link

So is your "Bake and Wake" one

Mark G, Friday, 29 March 2013 02:38 (eleven years ago) link

yeah I like roberto's cremation one best so far. Wake and bake is funny but not the right style for the contest.

i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Friday, 29 March 2013 03:33 (eleven years ago) link

"And so we pay our last respects to a great leader, Fidel Gastro. Reagan had Reaganomics, Fidel had Gastroenteritis."

Grampsy, Friday, 29 March 2013 05:07 (eleven years ago) link

On that tip:

"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust... that's molecular gastronomy for you."

Leeena Dunham (Leee), Friday, 29 March 2013 05:16 (eleven years ago) link

"Unfortunately it seems we've taken the concept of a 'roast' to literally..."

FINNISH HIM! Tuomas wins... (snoball), Friday, 29 March 2013 09:17 (eleven years ago) link

"I dipped my balls in the soup."

No, not sinister (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 29 March 2013 13:20 (eleven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/g9f7Irx.jpg

Poliopolice, Saturday, 6 April 2013 17:15 (eleven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/g9f7Irx.jpg

Poliopolice, Saturday, 6 April 2013 17:15 (eleven years ago) link

"I'M EGGCITED TO BE BACON THERAPY EGGAIN"

Poliopolice, Saturday, 6 April 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link

"The problem is I came first."

EZ Snappin, Saturday, 6 April 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link

"I hope these sessions won't consist of you cracking a series of yolks."

Will you see a political publicity stunt? (snoball), Saturday, 6 April 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link

"Doctor Doctor I feel like I'm cracking up."
"Don't worry, I've had rasher thoughts than that."

Will you see a political publicity stunt? (snoball), Saturday, 6 April 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link

"Help me doctor, I have this compulsion to write 'Victoria Roberts' on the carpet every time I walk into a room."

Will you see a political publicity stunt? (snoball), Saturday, 6 April 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link

"I know we're better off without them, but I miss the Wakey twins so much."

your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Saturday, 6 April 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link

"I contain a living being, but you are merely the end of a tasty dynasty"

your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Saturday, 6 April 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link

"I know I'm the one being analyzed here, but wearing shoes when you don't have feet seems like serious pedis envy to me."

a similar stunt failed to work with a cow (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 6 April 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link

"I'm an egg and you're a rasher of bacon! This is a totally unrealistic scenario! The cartoonist must be completely fucking mad!"

Will you see a political publicity stunt? (snoball), Saturday, 6 April 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link

"Is this couch made from fried bread? It's really uncomfortable."

Will you see a political publicity stunt? (snoball), Saturday, 6 April 2013 17:45 (eleven years ago) link

"Should I take my top off now, Mr. Cameron?"

BTW hate VR, I probably like Ros Chast better.

Leeena Dunham (Leee), Saturday, 6 April 2013 17:48 (eleven years ago) link

"To be quite honest, all I really want is some countertransference."

Assurance T. Rex, Saturday, 6 April 2013 18:00 (eleven years ago) link

"A feather quill? Really?"

ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Saturday, 6 April 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago) link

"Aha! I knew that William Shakespeare was really just an alias of Francis Bacon!"

Will you see a political publicity stunt? (snoball), Saturday, 6 April 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link

"After the spontaneous abortion I've always felt like I've been carrying my baby with me."

Øystein, Saturday, 6 April 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago) link

"It feels like my soul is pecking at my shell, yearning to be rid of these mortal trappings."

Øystein, Saturday, 6 April 2013 18:28 (eleven years ago) link

"I was told you were the one to see to help me with my fear of frying pans."

EZ Snappin, Saturday, 6 April 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link

"my last therapist was a vienna sausage but he had some weird ideas about my mom."

Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 6 April 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link

"I don't care whether someone is white, brown or green; mixing with ham is an abomination against God."

Øystein, Saturday, 6 April 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link

"I don't think I have daddy-issues just because I look at cocks on the internet."

Øystein, Saturday, 6 April 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link


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