It’s an article of faith in literary circles that the proper way to read the New Yorker is to start with the cartoons and then place the magazine atop a neat pile of older issues and wait for nuclear ...

While he is best known as the maestro of some of the funniest musical parodies of all time, there are also many great "Weird Al" Yankovic appearances in movies and TV shows that any fan of the artist ...

Kids believe some wacky things, but who among us hasn’t been certain they were an official grown-up long before they entered adulthood? The screaming will quickly remind you. Sure, this marriage ...

Animated cartoons of the 1970’s looked way different from they do now. There were few special effects beyond what animators were capable of drawing and sound effects were largely re-used time and time ...

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Some cartoons from the '90s will never be forgotten, from SpongeBob SquarePants skyrocketing to fame in 1999 to Disney's memorable One Saturday Morning block full of Recess and Doug, and no millennial ...

From lobbyists gutting science bills to Congress not knowing the Earth is round, have a sigh and a chuckle at the punchlines in these entries in the Union of Concerned Scientists anti-science cartoon ...

Throughout the day, New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff jots down ideas that strike him as funny: A door lies on a couch in a psychiatrist's office, and the psychiatrist says, "You're not crazy, you ...