Word: yorkerism
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...feels wrong, looking at 75-year-old jokes. It's like looking at old porn: you can't expect people who had body hair and no Pilates to seem hot now. But if you give yourself a chance to settle into it, as any good New Yorker reader trained on 5,000-word stories about ketchup would, you start to laugh at even the 1925 section of The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker. The rhythms might be slower, the references outdated and the attitude more restrained, but funny, it turns out, stays funny. Old porn, it turns out, also...
...There's a bedrock core of humanity. We have the same pompousness that needs to be punctured," says Robert Mankoff, the cartoon editor of the New Yorker and creator of the iconic cartoon in which a man is looking at his calendar while on the phone saying, "No, Thursday's out. How about never - is never good for you?" Mankoff spent two years collecting every cartoon ever printed in the magazine, which meant rounding up old issues from storage facilities in Queens and Illinois. "I'm offering $10 for any cartoon we missed, $20 if you just shut up about...
...which a Chinese warrior says, "That banquet was most delicious, and yet now, somehow, once again I feel the pang of hunger." It's that every week Mankoff has to reject great submissions because the research department sends him typed index cards enumerating similar jokes made in New Yorker cartoons over the past 79 years. Seriously, people, let go of the deserted island...
...boys have been divorced, including Shapiro, who says that aside from widowers who remarried, the rest remain wedded to the women they courted decades ago. West has been married for 43 years to his wife Marlene, a Bronx girl. Shapiro's current wife, Diane Barnett-Shapiro, is another New Yorker. The secret? Familiarity. "After I told Jerry [Seinfeld] that the more common ground you have, the better chance of a successful marriage," says Shapiro, "he dubbed that 'the Shapiro law of common culture...
...rich women. At personal appearances in department stores, he has been known to move $85,000 worth of merchandise in just one hour. But this year has been different. This year Kors says his wealthy clientele is out of control--they're spending like it's 1999. One New Yorker ordered two pairs of gold-beaded pants for $8,900 each. At a trunk show in Short Hills, N.J., Kors sold five purple mink ponchos for $7,825 each. Like many purveyors of luxury goods, Kors has seen his business increase 40% in the past year. And that...