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How to Write a New Yorker Cartoon Caption: Danny DeVito Edition


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Hi, I’m Danny Devito, I’m doing the New Yorker

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cartoon caption contest.

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Okay, this guy looks like a Charles Dickens’ version

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of Saint Peter and this guy down here making his way

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into the, doesn’t look exactly

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like very inviting Pearly Gates.

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Okay, I know you’re trying to keep people out,

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but if you find my hat let me know.

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[excited drumbeats]

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This is why they do this and I don’t.

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All right so we’re looking at a coffin,

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and two people are discussing a dead person.

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And there’s like this sickle thing coming out.

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[mellow jazz music]

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It says the old fart did enough damage,

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Let’s go celebrate. [chuckles]

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Shut the coffin and let’s go home.

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[excited drumbeats]

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Why am I so afraid of getting a paper cut here?

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[Woman] Because it hurts!

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It really does hurt.

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Have you had any lately?

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Okay I’m looking at two people in bed,

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and they’ve got some kind of helmets on.

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Okay, can I be dirty?

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[mellow jazz music]

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I want to add one for it in the front.

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Baby, Chernobyl really has fucked over our sex life.

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It’s like hard to do because you can’t see it

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but the protective suits go all the way down

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[excited drumbeats]

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Now, what am I seeing?

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These guys are standing in front of these shapes

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that could be construed as a couple things.

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I mean, they look like urinals, right?

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I chose something else.

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And this guy looks like he might in the superhero

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business and who the hell knows about the other guy.

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But anyway, it says I piss on gravestones all the time,

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but I’m a superhero, what’s your excuse?

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[excited drumbeats]

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with the paper. That was close.

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So I’m looking at a guy in a white coat

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and a guy in a rat suit making notations,

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looking at a bunch of rats in a cage.

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The blenders are broken.

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What do we do with the excess rodents?

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[excited drumbeats]

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A nice rodent smoothie is really good, you know?

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With a little roach sauce thrown on the top.

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Me, I have to be from New York to understand this one.

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Oh, this is a good one.

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Okay, so I’m looking at four parrots

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at a table, one of ’em is talking.

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This guy looks really worried.

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[mellow jazz music]

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I ran out of paper, but I remember what I said.

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You guilty on of a bitch.

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We’re gonna rip your head off and put it on the wall

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with the other traitor parrots.

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Asshole traitor parrots.

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These are all traitor parrots and that’s what they do.

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They’re not really pictures, they’re their heads.

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Actual heads on the wall.

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[excited drumbeats]

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We’ve got a rooster and a duck.

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[mellow jazz music]

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Everybody knows it’s a dysfunctional family.

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Let’s fuck our feathers off before mom and dad gets home.

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Let’s do it right now.

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[excited drumbeats]

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It’s a jail, obviously.

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There’s two guys and it looks like a girl in the middle.

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There’s a guy with his hand in his pocket,

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looks like the CEO of the prison.

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[mellow jazz music]

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It’s ain’t goin’ down.

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Okay, this is like a boring one, I’m sorry, it’s me,

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it’s not the picture, the picture is great.

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Productivity is in the shitter.

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One by one you’re doing down.

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That’s not a good one.

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Okay, let’s move on.

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[excited drumbeats]

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Well, we’re in bed with a looks like a guy with antlers.

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And he’s reading, some newspaper, I can’t read it.

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Does it have words on it?

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[mellow jazz music]

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Okay, it says here that there are side effects

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and if the hair stays the boner stays.

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I actually didn’t see his other foot.

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[repeated drumbeats]

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Oh that is, that is good.

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Again, once again we’re up in a beautiful high rise

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somewhere in Manhattan with the one percent.

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This guy’s really huffy.

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Look at the, like a whole boardroom full of people,

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but they’re not bored obviously,

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they’re having a good time.

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[mellow jazz music]

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Okay, if I can read my writing.

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Me and Harry are snapping up Mildred and Florence

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so I guess it’s you, Joe and Pete again.

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You see, that’s Mildred and Florence,

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And then so, it’s him and Joe and Pete don’t have mates

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so they have to do it.

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And by the way, there’s acid in the punch.

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[excited drumbeats]

07:01

Hi, I’m Danny Devito,

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and this was a cartoon caption contest,

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where there are no winners, only shitty jokes.



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