How to Win a Cartoon Caption Contest and Unlock Your Creativity

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Dec 14, 2023

New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake takes jokes seriously. She also teaches others how to do it. Her new creative card deck, "Joke in a Box: How To Write and Draw Jokes," is a take-home version of her popular in-person workshop. "I like to think this will be a help to everybody’s dad who is trying to win the caption contest," she told one of our producers. She joins us to discuss the game.

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