How to win the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest.
“There is one mantra to take from this article, worth its own line break:
You are not trying to submit the funniest caption; you are trying to win The New Yorker’s caption contest.”
For example: For a cartoon showing elegantly dressed, upper-class people, put some trendy phrase into their mouths, such as, “Oh, snap!” or “Duh” or the like. Slays ‘em every time.
