That's great.

Oh, God, a toast joke.

Is toast on your list of cliches?

I have recently put it out.

No toast radio.

No, no soap radio.

You're listening to The New Yorker Radio Hour.

Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Not that you asked, but my favorite part of the week may be when Bob Mankoff, who's been the New Yorker's cartoon editor for 20-odd years, comes down the hallway, bringing a basket full of 50 or 75 cartoons to the office.

And together, we go through them and we weed out about 15 or so that might go into the magazine.

You might not believe it, but it's pretty hard work.

This is great.

You're taking them both.

That's great.

That's what I'm saying.

I know since this is the end, and I know you've asked for this many times, here's a list of all the cliches. Let's try the G's. Gallows, Garden of

Eden, Gates of Hell, Jeannie in the lamp, Guy in Stocks. I got to work on them a little bit. These are good. Do you think we could get through an entire cartoon meeting without any of these cliches? No, that would be impossible. Just pass the fucking cartoons. Come on. Two bears are having a cup of coffee in a diner. One says, My husband's snoring kept me up all winter. It's a little bit of a hibernation

joke. Yeah. Two penguins chatting. One says, I've got my own place now, but I still rely on my

parents to regurgitate my meals. That's funny. That's funny. Nothing like a puke joke.

Okay, this I don't understand at all. I mean, do you see right away that it's cross-country skiing? That's funny. That's funny. Nothing like a puk joke. Okay, this I don't understand at all. I mean, do you see right away that it's cross-country scheme? That's the only thing? Yeah, I think so. Monster, looks like Ugolino. No, it's from Goya's Saturn who is eating, who he's children. Ah, I thought it was Ugolino from Dante's Inferno. But,, you... Well, I defer to your erudiction even though it's wrong.

I cannot believe I make a living doing this.

Someone's in a hospital bed dying as usual.

And the doctor says, the patient appears to be suffering from mild food-induced coma.

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