New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

Episode 164 - Liza Donnelly Talks About "Women Laughing"

July 24, 2024 Vin Coca, Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Nicole Chrolavicius Season 4 Episode 164

On part 2 of this week's episode, we talk with Liza Donnelly about producing a documentary based on her book, Very Funny Ladies. The documentary will be called, "Women Laughing" and is currently in the development phase. 

Liza has started a Kickstarter to help fund it and is nearly to her goal of $50,000. You can help out by going to her Kickstarter page and making a pledge. There are different rewards depending on your pledge level. The Kickstarter ends Tuesday, July 30 at 12:00 PM EST.

Check it out and help Liza fund her documentary!
https://www.kickstarter.com/.../womenlaugh.../women-laughing

You can find the Women Laughing website here:
https://www.womenlaughingfilm.com

You can also find Liza's Substack here:
https://lizadonnelly.substack.com

Liza mentions cartoonist, Nurit Karlin during the podcast, you can find out more about her here:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-pioneering-cartoons-of-nurit-karlin

On Part 1 of the episode, we discuss the current contests:

Winning captions for New Yorker contest #902 (Egression Therapy). 

Finalists for contest #904 (Grazing the goat to the right). 

Current New Yorker contest #906 (This dive is for the birds). 

We also pick our favorite cartoons from the current issue (we all picked the same one as our favorite and due to the wording of the caption, we will need to have a mature listeners only warning for this part of the podcast).

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