The August 19, 2024, issue of The New Yorker featured a Charles Addams cartoon on its cover. That's it, above.
Since Addams died in 1988, this is definitely "vintage" humor - and that's basically the nature of the entire issue of the magazine. It's a "humor" issue, and to populate its pages, The New Yorker has mined its past offerings, including by way of an article entitled, "What's So Funny?" Online, the article has another title, "In Search of the World’s Funniest Joke." Tad Friend wrote the article, which was accompanied by the following cartoon:
I like to kid around, myself - and I think I'm sort of funny - but I was distressed to see my efforts at humor so adroitly described in the very first lines of "The Talk Of The Town" column, which always comes first when you open up the magazine:
Many readers believe that, at some point in time, they should have won this magazine's Cartoon Caption Contest....
Well, I do believe that! But, of course, I never have! Perhaps it's consoling to find that I am just one among the millions, at least if I credit what Cartoon Editor Emma Allen says (she wrote the comment to which I have just cited. It is titled, "Funny/Unfunny," and is found in in "The Talk Of The Town" column).
Anyway, I can recommend the August 2024, issue of the magazine for all those who want to think about what humor is, and who are always searching for a really good joke.
Presented below is my choice for the best joke in the magazine - and maybe it is, actually, "the world's funniest joke." The joke is credited to Emo Philips, who is pictured below - and here it is:
I’d like to die in my sleep like my grandfather did, not screaming at the top of my lungs like the passengers in his car.
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