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New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

Vin Coca, Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Nicole Chrolavicius

In depth discussion of the weekly New Yorker Caption Contest as well as interviews with Cartoonists and former Contest winners.Email: CartoonCaptionContestPodcast@gmail.comCredits:Intro/Outro music created and performed by Chris Nesja.Podcast logo designed by Dan Nesja with artwork by Shannon Wheeler.

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66:20

Episode 212 - Ken Levine Returns

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast ·

2025/07/31

Emmy Award winning writer and cartoonist, Ken Levine returns to the podcast this week. Ken has been a writer for MASH, Cheers, Frasier, Wings. The Simpsons and many more TV shows. Ken has the most recent cartoon in the CartoonStock Caption Contest and we talk with him about his cartoon and his reaction to the winning captions. He also joins us for the New Yorker contests and favorite cartoons from the current issue. Ken also has a reading for his play, "Back To The Drawing Board", on ...

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Episode 211 - Harry Bliss

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2025/07/23

Cartoonist Harry Bliss joins us on the second half of the podcast this week. Harry has been contributing to the New Yorker since 1998, first as a cover artist and also as a cartoonist. He has recently collaborated with Steve Martin in a series of cartoons that have been collected in the book, "A Wealth of Pigeons". Harry also illustrated Steve's book, "Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions", about Steve's career in the movies. Harry has recently had his memoi...

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Episode 210 - Alex Gregory Returns

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast ·

2025/07/16

Screenwriter and cartoonist, Alex Gregory joins us on the podcast this week. Alex was a guest on the podcast three years ago and we mostly talked about his career in cartooning on that episode (#66). On this episode, we go over some of our favorite cartoons of his and talk more about his screenwriting. The most recent show he's been a writer on is "The Studio", which was recently nominated for 23 Emmy's (the most for any first season comedy series)! You can check out Alex's IMDp page here: h...

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Episode 209 - Lawrence Wood

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast ·

2025/07/02

Larry Wood, the all time New Yorker cartoon caption contest winner, author and CartoonStock caption contest judge, joins us again to talk about the current New Yorker contests, our favorite cartoons from this week’s issue of the New Yorker and the latest CartoonStock contest. We have the usual spirited debates with Larry about the contest finalists and we take a few digressions into politics and the much more controversial debate on what was the better show, "Seinfeld" or "Curb Your Ent...

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Episode 208 - José Arroyo Returns

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast ·

2025/06/25

Humorist and cartoonist, José Arroyo joins us on the podcast this week. José joins us again nearly two years after we last had him on and it's been a very busy two years for him! He's been working with Conan O'Brien on a number of projects including Conan's travel show, "Conan O'Brien Must Go" (currently available on Max), the Oscars and Conan's appearance on the Hot Ones podcast. We have some great discussions on creativity and humor. We also learn that Cornell University is a gr...

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Episode 207 - Michael Litwak

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast ·

2025/06/20

Michael Litwak joins us on the second half of the podcast this week. Michael is a recent contributor to the New Yorker and has had his cartoons published in a number of other publication. He is also a successful filmmaker with his most recent effort, "Molli And Max In The Future" receiving a NYT Critic's Pick and a Certified Fresh (98% rating) on Rotten Tomatoes. Check out Michael's webpage here for his cartoons and more info on his films: https://www.michaellitwak.com/about And ...

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Episode 206 - Lawrence Wood

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast ·

2025/06/11

Larry Wood, the all time New Yorker cartoon caption contest winner, author and CartoonStock caption contest judge, joins us to talk about the current New Yorker contests, our favorite cartoons from this week’s issue of the New Yorker and the latest CartoonStock contest. As always, we have a great discussion about the contests and we take some time to talk about if some subjects should be off limits for captions in the contests. We are also much nicer to Larry on this episode (but we'll ...

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Episode 205 - Lindsey Budde

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast ·

2025/06/04

Lindsey Budde joins us on the second half of the podcast this week. Lindsey is a new cartoon contributor to the New Yorker, with her first cartoon appearing in the September 23, 2024 issue. We talk with Lindsey about her background and her journey to becoming a New Yorker Cartoonist. You can see more of her cartoons om her instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/lindseybudde/ On Part 1 of the episode, we discuss the current contests: Winning captions for New Yorker contest #94...

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Episode 204 - Bruce Eric Kaplan

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast ·

2025/05/28

Bruce Eric Kaplan joins us on the podcast this week. We talk with Bruce about his career in TV, writing books and cartoons and how he's managed to blend all of those career paths together. He doesn't mind getting a little cartoons mixed in with his TV and his TV getting mixed in with his books. We also talk about our favorite BEK cartoons and how a word, not usually found in a New Yorker cartoons" was found in a New Yorker cartoon. A great hour of talking with Bruce that went by way too...

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Episode 203 - Victor Varnado

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast ·

2025/05/21

Victor Varnado joins us on the second half of the podcast this week. Victor is an actor, comedian, humorist and, of course, a New Yorker cartoonist. We talk with Victor about his background, being funny and we take a deep dive into A.I. and it's use in creativity. You can learn more about Victor at his website: https://supremerobot.com His Anti-Racism Activity Book can be bought here: https://antiracism.online His current podcast, WikiListen: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../wikilisten/...

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Episode 202 - Lawrence Wood

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast ·

2025/05/07

Larry Wood, the all time New Yorker cartoon caption contest winner, author and CartoonStock caption contest judge, joins us to talk about the current New Yorker contests, our favorite cartoons from this week’s issue of the New Yorker and the latest CartoonStock contest. Vin Joins us from his local firehouse (Vin is a volunteer fireman) and various people randomly come and go during the podcast. We have a lively discussion about the New Yorker contest and an even livelier discussion/argu...

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Episode 201 - Robert Leighton

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast ·

2025/05/01

New Yorker cartoonist, Robert Leighton joins us on the second half of the podcast this week. Robert started drawing cartoons at an early age and started a comic strip, called Carl & Goober, when he was eight. The strip was very much influenced by Walt Kelly's, Pogo and Robert even used one of its characters in a strip he did for the Northwestern University Humor magazine. His first cartoon in the New Yorker was published in 2002 and he has been a frequent contributor ever since. He is als...

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Episode 200 - The 200th With Jason Chatfield

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast ·

2025/04/23

New Yorker cartoonist, Jason Chatfield, joins us to celebrate the 200th episode of the podcast. We catch up on what he's been up to over the last two years and talk about his new book with Scott Dooley, "You're Not a Real Dog Owner Until…". It will be available on April 29th wherever fine books are sold and at the book's website: Realdogowner.com You can find more about Jason, subscribe to his subStack and look for his next live gig at his website: https://www.jasonchatfield.com You can rea...

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Episode 199 - Lawrence Wood

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast ·

2025/04/16

Larry Wood, the all time New Yorker cartoon caption contest winner, author and CartoonStock caption contest judge, joins us once again to talk about the current New Yorker contests, our favorite cartoons from this week’s issue of the New Yorker and the latest CartoonStock contest. Some great discussions and debates about the finalist picks and we learn that Larry and Paul have a connection to the current New Yorker contest cartoon. Larry and Beth also have very funny funeral stories. We put t...

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Episode 198 - Sarah Booth

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast ·

2025/04/09

Sarah Booth joins us on the second half of the podcast this week. Sarah is the daughter of the legendary New York cartoonist, George Booth. We start out talking about her and her career as a staff artist at the New York Times. Sarah also has many great memories of growing up in the Booth household. We learn who some of George's characters are based on and how he used real life events to help him create some of his memorable cartoons. We were very delighted to have Sarah on the podcast. ...

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Episode 197 - Ellis Rosen Returns

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast ·

2025/04/03

New Yorker cartoonist, Ellis Rosen, joins us for a second time on the podcast. We catch up on what he's been up to lately, pickleball, New Yorker 100th anniversary parties and numbers stations. A very informative and entertaining discussion of cartoons! You can subscribe to Ellis's newsletter here: https://ellis-newsletter-06cc2e.beehiiv.com You can also play Ellis's movie based game here: https://www.starcrossed.today And you can buy Ellis's books here: https://www.amazon.com/...

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78:31

Episode 196 - Tommy Siegel

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast ·

2025/03/26

New Yorker cartoonist, musician and birder, Tommy Siegel joins us on the podcast this week. Tommy talks about his love of cartoons when he was young, how he recently got back into it (a cartoon a day for 500 days) and his amazing bird studies, Extremely Accurate Birds. You'll never think of bird watching in the same way again! He also talks about his Candy Hearts books. These books gather his cartoons about romance, love and relationships as expressed on those tasty chalk based candy hearts. ...

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Episode 195 - Lawrence Wood

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast ·

2025/03/19

Larry Wood, the all time New Yorker cartoon caption contest winner, author and CartoonStock caption contest judge, joins us once again to talk about the current New Yorker contests, our favorite cartoons from this week’s issue of the New Yorker and the latest CartoonStock contest. Vin was unable to join us on this podcast, which was a huge disappointment as he had very strong opinions on the CartoonStock finalists. I'm sure we'll hear about it the next time Larry is on. We discuss the winnin...

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Episode 194 - Lia Strasser & Bizzy Coy

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast ·

2025/03/12

On part 2 of this week's episode, we talk with Lia Strasser and Bizzy Coy. Lia is an illustrator/cartoonist and Bizzy is a published writer/humorist and together, they are the Wonder Twins of cartooning. They started collaborating in 2023 and have had a number of cartoons published in the New Yorker and other publications. We had a great time talking with them about their background, process and what we get into when we visit people's houses (if you invite Bizzy over, be sure to l...

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126:40

Episode 193 - Michael Maslin New Yorker 100th...

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast ·

2025/03/05

On part 2 of this week's episode, Michael Maslin joins us to talk about the New Yorker 100th Anniversary and his recent book that he collaborated on with photographer, Alen MacWeeney, titled "At Wit's End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker". Michael also maintains a database of the New Yorker cartoonists on his website, "The Ink Spill" and posts a daily New Yorker cartoon related article there as well (he also posts it as a Substack). You can order his book here: https://www.amazon.com/At-...

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