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Cillian Murphy’s Bedtime Routine

5 P.M.: Call ’round to the pub and dine on a hearty meal of potatoes, bangers, and the knowledge that you are Christopher Nolan’s favorite.
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“The Real Housewives of Roku City”

These ladies bring tons of drama and are no strangers to a TV screen.
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Signs You Should Give Up on a Book

You’re using the book to squash bugs; you’re waiting for the book to initiate physical contact; you can’t stop thinking about Gary Oldman movies.
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The Clown Suit of Middle Age

We all have a beast inside us, right? Well, middle age takes that beast and makes it wear a clown suit. Everything in you that was fun is now foolish and gross.
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Beyond Mob Wife: The Next Wave of Aesthetic Trends

Gen Z Retiree: This is not a look—it’s a mind-set and life style, plus Crocs.
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Cartoon by Tom Toro
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Comics

Sketchpad

Casting Call! “January 6th: The Movie”!

Who will play the QAnon Shaman? Can Gritty find a role?
Sketchbook

An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children

Jamaica Kincaid’s alphabet of the colonized world, with illustrations by Kara Walker.
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The Bodega as Chaotic Good, the Salad Joint as Neutral Evil

Christine Mi imagines a Dungeons & Dragons-style alignment system for New York storefronts.
Blitt’s Kvetchbook

Mitch McConnell, Out of His Shell 

Celebrating the soon-to-be-former Senate Leader’s force of personality.

Sportsball

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I Like Sports

My favorite thing about sports is that they give me an acceptable way to express my feelings in a patriarchal culture that views expressions of male emotion as weak.
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Fight-or-Flight Responses to Talking About Sports

An increased heart rate, pale or flushed skin, an intense desire to hide behind your phone when you realize that everyone else at the party actually likes sports.
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Respectful Ways to Heckle Athletes

“Stop fouling all the time! Your phenomenal parents raised you never to lay your hands on other people in anger!”
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A Brief History of Sports

Three hundred thousand years ago, a group of advanced Homo sapiens was days away from discovering electricity and inventing history’s most complex language. Then Edgar threw a rock.

More Humor

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Films That Have Been Rewritten Now That Everyone Is Talking About Polyamory

“Lord of the Rings”: The four hobbits all move in together. No judgy hobbit can say anything, because they did save Middle-earth.
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The Affair with My Chair

If sitting is the new sex, it’s important to find the right partner.
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Where One Tax Dollar Actually Goes

“Infrastructure” ($0.05): We’re unclear on the significance of the quotation marks, but we can all agree that it’s high time the U.S. railway system caught up to the twentieth century.
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Color Theory, Explained

If you don’t know much about color, it’s a good idea to just pick the second least expensive color on the menu.
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Melanie Ann Donoghue and Wordle Wed

The bride worried, “Will people judge me for dating someone I met online, who’s only capable of communicating through letters that Times readers type onto a gridlike interface?”
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Where Stars Keep Their Oscars

Anonymous Academy Award winners sound off on where in their homes, properties, or tax shelters they store the industry’s most prestigious object.
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Practical Uses for Internet Negativity

You can rearrange favorite insults into one-of-a-kind baby names.
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Scenes from My Open-ish Marriage

My wife and I have an arrangement. I mean, I think we do. We also have an arrangement about the grocery shopping and the recycling (I do both).
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What Blurbs Really Mean

“No one will care about this in a week.”
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How People with Dietary Restrictions See Menus

Vegan options: Mound of celery and carrots (no dip); the garnish parts of the charcuterie board.