Plus: cartoons from this week’s issue.

View in your browser | Update your preferences

The New Yorker Daily Humor
 

New Yorker subscribers exclusively enjoy complete access to our cartoon archives, plus monthly dispatches from comedians. If you’re not already a subscriber, join us today »

 

Cartoons from This Week’s Issue

A magazine floats toward a person on a desert island.

“We only go skating because we’re too embarrassed to wear our Christmas sweaters on land.”

Explore the gallery
 

More in Humor

A radiator behind a chair

It’s Me, Your Radiator!

Listen, I love you. That’s why I’m gonna smother you with an impermeable blanket of nosebleed-inducing, acrid-smelling heat.

By Kira Garcia

Illustration by Laurie Rosenwald

Holly or Challah?

Ways for the sensitive Christian to make everyone feel at ease and have a Happy Interfaith Holiday Season!

By Paul Rudnick

Person in an auditorium getting struck by arrows.

Premeditated

Close your eyes. Breathe in. Experience “Titanic” and “The Wizard of Oz” the Chloé Zhao way.

By Anthony Lane

 

This Week’s Caption Contest

A podcaster interviewing a snowman

Submit a caption.

Your caption will be rated by readers, like you, in the next round.

You be the judge.

Your responses will help us select three finalists.

The final three.

Your choice will help determine the winning caption.

 

The winner.

See who won (finally).

 

Today’s cartoon, by Ellis Rosen:

A child sits on Santa’s lap.

“And which brands would you like to put in your parents’ promotions tab this year?”

See more cartoons

 

More from The New Yorker

A photograph of Willie Nelson

Profiles

How Willie Nelson Sees America

On the road with the musician, his band, and his family.

By Alex Abramovich

Animation of a doctor's robe and green net

2025 in Review

The Role of Doctors Is Changing Forever

Some patients don’t trust us. Others say they don’t need us. It’s time for us to think of ourselves not as the high priests of health care but as what we have always been: healers.

By Dhruv Khullar

You’re receiving this e-mail because you signed up for Daily Humor from The New Yorker. Was this e-mail forwarded to you? Sign up.

 

Manage your preferences | View our privacy policy | Unsubscribe 

Send feedback | Share e-mail

 

Copyright © Condé Nast 2025. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.