Another Ziegler from jmcandrew, who has been finding a bunch of great CIDUs of late. This one apparently dates from 1979, and OP notes:
Is the joke here just that some people don’t enjoy Barry Manilow? He’s been a consistently popular entertainer for 6 decades. Seems like a swanky gathering with a grand piano setup would appreciate his type of music.
I always confuse Barry Manilow with Neil Diamond for some reason. Which definitely doesn’t help.
JMcAndrew asks, “Why would anyone staying at a hotel pay to hear adulterous noises?”
All I can think is that this is leaning into that particular trope of cheap motels. Anyone who has ever experienced such might appreciate a line that I wish I’d written:
“For the first 20 minutes it was funny; then it was irritating; then it was actually pretty impressive…”
OK, that might warrant an Arlo tag…
Chris Hoover sends this in: “I perceive this to be two jokes about typing but with your hand in the wrong position on the keyboard. However, I am unable to decipher the one on the right. For that matter, I’m not particularly certain about the one on the left.”
A similar gag from Nancy, but this one’s not a CIDU.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of The New Yorker. In honor of that considerable accomplishment, we’re presenting all the cartoons that appeared in that first issue, February 21, 1925. It’s a varied lot, including some CIDUs — were they CIDUs at the time? It’s remarkable to me that the general style of The New Yorker’s humor is recognizable in that first issue.
Pete commented: “The bread line: we are seeing one page of a two page centrefold. The full version compares poor people waiting for bread to rich young women waiting for their escorts to buy dinner.”
see: https://tinyurl.com/4s9452ku
But we are seeing the entire two page centrefold, and the comparison is implicit. I’m posting the complete centrefold here because I’m not sure my link will work if you aren’t a New Yorker subscriber.
Another from jmcandrew: “This is a Jack Ziegler cartoon and other than the fact that there is likely not a lot of demand for poet laureates in most corporations I have no idea what the joke here is supposed to be.”
Agreed. Though it does sound like a pretty sweet gig.
Anonymous sends this in: “I feel like this is some sort of pun that I’m not getting. “Surgeon’s Vacuum”???”
From jmcandrew:
Is there a joke here other than this restaurant has chosen to display a single piece of pie in their window instead of an entire pie? Is it controversial for senior women to enjoy banana cream pie?
Jack Applin has a few questions about this one:
“McKenzie is making a makeup video narrated by her boyfriend.
1) Does she even have a boyfriend?
2) Why did the lipstick have no visible effect?
3) Where will she put the mascara? She has no eyelashes.
4) Did the boyfriend say something in the middle panel that made her sad in the last panel?
5) What the !@#$% is going on?”
This Nick & Zuzu comic is nearly a year old, but I still don’t understand it.
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Why would an unmarried male be more likely to get a highly decorated drink? Is the bartender gay? Or female? Or was the overdecorated drink intended for the wife, who refused to take it?
I thought this was a reference to Men Without Hats’ song, “Safety Dance”, but there’s no reference to a forest in that song’s lyrics. https://genius.com/Men-without-hats-the-safety-dance-lyrics
Be warned: that song is a bit of an earworm:
So, what cultural reference am I missing here?
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