Does anyone actually *get* the cartoons that appear in the New Yorker?

Last year my office had a Dilbert page-a-day calendar, but this year the guy who went to purchase another one decided to spice things up a bit by buying one featuring New Yorker cartoons.

I admit that I am not up on many current events, so I don’t usually understand the political ones, but even ones where I DO understand what is going on, I usually don’t find them funny! I’ve flipped through the magazine a few times in the past and I’ve MAYBE found 1 or 2 to be amusing, which is sad when you consider that almost every page has a cartoon or two.

So this makes me wonder, are all the cartoons super-witty and I’m just too dumb to understand them, or do 90% of them make absolutely no sense and the only people who find them funny are those PRETENDING to get them so that they feel smart?

Posted at 1:07 PM |