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The Brian Lehrer Show

100 Years of 100 Things: New Yorker Cartoons

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

Politics, News, News Commentary, Wnyc, Radio, Npr, Arts, New, Lerer, Media, Bryan, Nyc, Daily News, York, Public

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Liza Donnelly, writer and cartoonist at The New Yorker, talks about the evolution of the "New Yorker cartoon" now on display in an exhibit at the Society of Illustrators.

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Laris show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. Now we continue our WNYC

0:16.9

Centennial series, 100 years of 100 things. And just as WNYC is celebrating its 100th birthday,

0:24.1

so is the New Yorker celebrating its.

0:26.5

One of those ways is with some events and exhibits

0:29.9

featuring 100 years of New Yorker cartoons.

0:32.9

Did you know the New Yorker started out as a humor magazine?

0:36.2

Did you know the line on the internet? Nobody knows

0:39.8

you a dog? Or how about never? Is never good for you? Came from New Yorker cartoons? So that's where

0:47.5

we go today for 100 years of 100 things. Thing number 79, 100 years of New Yorker cartoons.

0:55.7

I'm delighted to have as our guest,

1:00.8

Lisa Donnelly, New Yorker cartoonist and writer of over 46 years, an author of the book,

1:06.1

Very Funny Ladies, The New Yorker's Women Cartoonists. She is also producing and directing a forthcoming documentary about New Yorker cartoonists called Women Laughing, and she writes a newsletter of

1:13.3

politics and humor called Seeing Things. There's also a New Yorker cartoon exhibit

1:18.1

that she's involved with called Drawn from the New Yorker, a centennial celebration that's up

1:23.8

through May 3rd at the Society of Illustrator's at 128 E60. 3rd Street in Manhattan.

1:30.2

We'll tell you more about that exhibit. Liza, great to have you with us for this. Congratulations

1:34.0

on 100 Years of the New Yorker and welcome back to WNYC. Well, thank you, Brian. Thank you for having

1:39.1

you back and happy birthday to WNYC. Thank you on behalf of everybody here. And listeners, you know, we invite your oral histories in our 100-year segments.

1:48.2

In this case, it's do you have an all-time favorite New Yorker cartoon?

1:53.3

212-433 WNYC, 212, 433-9-692.

2:00.3

What is the New Yorker cartoon goat, greatest of all time, from any era of the

2:06.4

magazine, or just the one that made you laugh out loud while you were reading it on the subway

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