“I sort of feel I want to be a one-hit wonder,” He says - without ruling out the possibility that he might enter the contest again one day. Now Leonard sounds ready to rest on his laurels. “ ‘Nine lives’ was the hook I needed,’ he says. SHARE This Utah teen just won The New Yorker caption. Now, she’s passed that success onto her son. BYU professor Christine Hurt is a proud two-time winner of The New Yorker’s cartoon caption contest. 371 was his first try in years - and the winning concept came to him out of the blue. This Utah teen just won The New Yorker caption contest. “Then I took a hiatus when I realized how much better the other people writing captions were.”Ĭontest No. Current Contest Caption Contest Commentary Vote Now Winners Rules. Leonard tried his hand at the contest in the beginning, he says. We’ll be pulling the latest cartoon each week, so if you don’t win this time, come back and try again. (Upon hearing of his death earlier this week, the magazine’s cartoon editor put the favorites among his entries online.) Generate a caption as many times as you’d like then, submit it to The New Yorker. Since the contest began in April 2005, it has attracted many thousands of entries from would-be humorists, including the late film critic Roger Ebert, who entered 107 times and won once. According to contest rules, it’s worth $250 and the winner is responsible for any tax obligations. (United States) and its basic language is English.
We haven’t detected security issues or inappropriate content on and thus you can safely use it. The cartoon also appears in the April 8 print edition.įor his labors, Leonard wins a signed copy of the cartoon, by artist Joe Dator, with the caption. It seems that Contest New Yorker content is notably popular in USA. Jumping right to the contest page at the back, he learned the good news. He downloaded the edition on his iPad, his favorite way of reading the magazine. On the Sunday night when he knew the winner would be revealed, Leonard was at home in Berkeley with his wife. “My son said, ‘I think the alternative was good.’ “ When an email arrived announcing that he was one of three finalists, he says, he was with both of his adult children, helping his daughter paint the interior of a house she recently bought. He was there late last week for a session of the Coalition for Network Information, which, as he says, “doesn’t sound like a cartoon - and it isn’t.” Email:Credits:Intro/Outro music created and performed by Chris Nesja.
Finalists for this week’s cartoon, by Sophie Lucido Johnson and Sammi Skolmoski, will appear online October 10th and in the October 17, 2022, issue of The New Yorker. You, the reader, submit your caption below, we choose three finalists, and you vote for your favorite. You do the math.” New Yorker judges picked it as one of three finalists, and readers voted it their top pick.Īs news of Leonard’s win flashed around the Berkeley campus, the campus librarian spoke with the NewsCenter from San Antonio, Texas. In depth discussion of the weekly New Yorker Caption Contest as well as interviews with Cartoonists and former Contest winners. Each week, we provide a cartoon in need of a caption. The best quote in the video from the 9-year-old: "I don't try to make it funny, or else it's not funny." Brilliant.The cartoon, with Tom Leonard’s winning caption. Yesterday The New Yorker posted this video on YouTube, which shows Alice coming up with her witty captions on the spot.
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"I am a professional joke writer for a professional TV show and I truly can't touch any of this," Kalb wrote on Twitter. To enter online, fill in the information on the page entitled Enter Contest and include a caption of 250 characters or less for the featured cartoon (the. And the tweet went viral.Īlthough Alice, from New Jersey, is too young to actually enter The New Yorker's weekly cartoon caption contest – you must be at least 13-years-old to enter – Alice's captions are right up there with the best of them.Įverything is terrible but my cousin's 9-year old daughter Alice has been quietly and masterfully slaying the caption contest and it's pure delight. In early April, Jimmy Kimmel Live and The New Yorker writer Bess Kalb tweeted some cartoon captions that her cousin's 9-year-old daughter, Alice Kassnove, had come up with.
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