So the comment in class the other day piqued my interest, specifically the one about New Yorker cartoons being not only hard to understand but not exactly tickling the majority of our funny bones. I definitely have to agree on that one. Prime example by George Booth from 1987.

We see a wife cleaning dishes from the kitchen, saying to her husband "Basil, do you think the center is going to hold?" who is sitting in his armchair reading a paper, while a dog and a cat look away from each other............Look at it carefully. Are you roaring with laughter? Do you even get it? Because I sure don't. I reminds me of cisco104's blog about value judgements in determining the worth of cartoons. Apparently just because it's in the New Yorker, it is therefore high culture which takes an elevated sense of comical acumen to discern it. I guess it doesn't even matter that it's not funny, it's the New Yorker.

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