The New Yorker

Founded in 1925, The New Yorker publishes the best writers of its time and has received more National Magazine Awards than any other magazine, for its groundbreaking reporting, authoritative analysis, and creative inspiration. The New Yorker takes readers beyond the weekly print magazine with the web, mobile, tablet, social media, and signature events. The New Yorker is at once a classic and at the leading edge.

Contributors

Goings On

Tables for Two: Strange Delight • 63 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn

Comment: Funny/Unfunny

Going Bananas: Workouts

Career Crisis: “She’s Funny! She’s Real!”

Who’s Funnier?: Rabbi Jokes

Liquidation Dept.: Scouting

Dept. of Clowning: Happy Pro

Dept. of Humor: What’s So Funny? • A scientific attempt to discover why we laugh.

Shouts & Murmurs: Love Trouble Is My Business

Personal History: Dead Man Laughing • Jokes run through a family.

Shouts & Murmurs: Corrections

Comic Strip: Abstract Thought Is a Warm Puppy

Profiles: Pryor Love • The life and times of America’s comic prophet of race.

Shouts & Murmurs: Guy Walks Into a Bar

Poems: So That’s Who I Remind Me Of

Shouts & Murmurs: LGA–ORD

Poems: The Seven Ages of a Newspaper Subscriber

Fiction: Chablis

The Air: A Crack in the Greasepaint • How “Saturday Night Live” breaks the mold.

Books: You Have to Laugh • A new biography takes on Charlie Chaplin.

On Television: Talking Dirty • Chelsea Handler sexes up late night.

The Current Cinema: Bravo! • “Funny Girl.”

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

Puzzles & Games Dept.: The Crossword • A moderately challenging puzzle.