Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Heaven or Hell?


Over at his blog, Daniel Radosh runs a weekly contest to see who can write the worst caption to a New Yorker cartoon. This was a finalist for the cartoon above:
"You know, I'm beginning to think, the halos and clouds and so forth notwithstanding, that this isn't actually Heaven, but is in fact Hell. For one thing, the boredom here is so oppressive that it feels like we're being punished, not rewarded. For another, I was a rapist."

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's hard to tell the anti-captions from the actual captions that run.


The "New Yorker cartoon vibe" is a delicate souffle. Very hard to parody.

-Siamang

Brad A. Greenberg said...

Agreed. I bought a book last year that is absolutely hilarious, "The Rejection Collection," about cartoons that didn't make it into The New Yorker and never will.

Anonymous said...

Brad... that was awesome.

-Siamang