Humor & Cartoons
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Dear Pepper: I’d Rather Be Drawing
How dare life require so much of you, when what you were born to do is sit in a corner of the room and watch and draw?
By Liana Finck
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The Revised Laws of Robotics
A robot must not hurt another robot, outside of some sort of cool sporting event you can place bets on.
By Jay Martel and Jonathan Stern
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Some Funny Things About Getting Old
Everything’s shot. Why not laugh about it?
By Jack Handey
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Why I’m Actually Inviting You to My Party
This won’t be fun, but it will be expensive.
By Jennie Egerdie, Johnathan Appel, and Jesse Shamon
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The Worst City to Find Love Is Wherever You, Yes You, Live
Several factors were examined to determine that you are the epicenter of a phenomenon that swallows up the possibility of romantic love like a black hole sucking in light.
By Zoe Pearl
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Daily Cartoons
1/15
“Can’t we all sit around the same campfire?”
Cartoon by Drew Dernavich
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Cartoon by Brendan Loper
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“At least A.I. ain’t comin’ for our jobs.”
Cartoon by Emily Flake
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“I can’t believe that the summer, and civilization, are almost over.”
Cartoon by Christopher Weyant
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“Do you know why the National Guard pulled you over?”
Cartoon by Paul Noth
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“We’ll talk more about Jim’s sunburn after this short break.”
Cartoon by Dan Misdea
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“You can each get another twenty minutes of screen time if you let Mommy have another twenty minutes of staring-at-the-wall-and-dissociating time.”
Cartoon by Benjamin Schwartz
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“Gosh! Whatever’s in those Epstein files must be really, really bad!”
Cartoon by Guy Richards Smit
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Cartoon by Peter Kuper
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“I can’t tell whether I’m scared or charmed.”
Cartoon by Natalie Horberg
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“Any plans for the weekend, or for escaping the incoming totalitarian regime?”
Cartoon by Christopher Weyant
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“I don’t know why, but posting photos of everything to social-media platforms that harvest my data for billionaire oligarchs just doesn’t have the same thrill as it used to.”
Cartoon by Brendan Loper
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Cartoon by Adam Douglas Thompson
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“The latest approval ratings are in.”
Cartoon by Niall Maher
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“There’s a fine line between sun-kissed and sun-dried.”
Cartoon by Daniela Gilsanz
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Automatic Reply
I will be out of the office beginning Friday, January 25th, at 1:15 (P.S.T.), and will return on Monday, February 4th, at 3:47 (Hawaiian-Aleutian Standard Time).
By Colin Jost
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I’m Working from Work Today
I may be a tad slow getting back to you today—my fingers are so cold from these frigid office temperatures that it takes me twice as long to type everything.
By Kathryn Kvas
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O.O.O. Messages for Everyday Life
I am currently on leave from human interaction, after receiving a TikTok comment from a stranger who called my forehead a “fivehead.”
By Jenny Arimoto
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Existential Office E-Mails
“Morning, Rob. Hope your weekend was an effective numbing agent against the spiritual oppression that is your every waking work hour!”
By Jessie Gaynor
Comics
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“And Just Like That . . . ,” the Lost Season
Plotlines we’ll never see: Carrie grapples with shoe tariffs, and Miranda moves into the sewers.
By Emily Flake
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America!: Gardening with Stephen Miller
Those filthy, degenerate daisies have grown back.
By Ali Fitzgerald
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Skateboarding Into Middle Age
As I approach forty, I have fewer and fewer memories of being a child. It is enough that the body remembers.
By Navied Mahdavian
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When I’m Ninety-five
Woke up, got out of bed / So glad I wasn’t dead.
By Bruce Handy and Jay Martel
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Cover Letter for a Job I Don’t Want but Will Be Offended Not to Get
My résumé reflects a pattern of, let’s call it, erratic brilliance punctuated by long stretches of disillusionment, which I’ve cleverly framed as “consulting.”
By Greg Mania
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A Vaccination Parable
You’ve got to read the literature!
By Steve Martin and Harry Bliss
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Date Ideas for Couples in Long-Term Relationships
Go about your normal evening, but with a candle lit.
By McKayley Gourley and Kevin Burke
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F.A.Q.s About the W.N.B.A.
As a man, I’ve noticed that some of the women in the W.N.B.A. are getting a lot of attention. But the thing is, I want attention.
By Riane Konc
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“Emma” Unrated
In which Jane Austen’s Miss Emma Woodhouse is bestirred by “Jackass” ’s Mr. Knoxville upon his presentation of a “Fire-Hose Rodeo.”
By Ian Frazier
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Why I Left the City and Moved My Family Into an Inflatable Bounce House
Buy a house in this market? Do I look like a complete chucklehead?
By Danielle Kraese
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It’s Time to Check In for Your D.E. Eye Exam
This vision test is far from routine—don’t forget that racism starts in the retinas.
Film by Jed Feiman and Nehemiah Markos
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Super-Fun Romantic Sexy Beach Read
A little Proust, a little cancer, but in a light and sexy way. Isn’t melancholy the new quirky?
By John Kenney
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The Aging Millennial’s Guide to Summer
Read an autofiction novel written by someone your age about how they’re way too old to be this pathetic and single.
By Jason Adam Katzenstein