Dave Prude once commented,"People don't read New Yorker cartoons to laugh. They read them to feel smug for understanding the joke."
At least the New Yorker seems to be aware how oblique they get. Here's a quiz testing your ability to comprehend the worst of them.
I should add that, lately, all I've been doing is reposting the best of The Beat.
He might not have used the word "smug."
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I'm afraid what it says about me that I scored 5 of 5 on the New Yorker cartoon quiz.
I got 4 out of 5. I had no clue what that last one was supposed to mean.
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