Best New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs
Shouts & Murmurs is The New Yorker's humor column, featuring comedic essays and satirical pieces. Since 1925, it has showcased wit from writers like S.J. Perelman, Woody Allen, and Jack Handey.
12 picks · 1928–2018
Top authors: George Saunders (3), Dorothy Parker (1), Alexander Woollcott (1)
SHOUTS AND MURMURS about undecided voters. As we move into the final weeks of the Presidential campaign, the focus shifts to the undecided voters. I look …
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SHOUTS & MURMURS about a fictional memo regarding the Sacha Baron Cohen’s controversial comedy “Borat.” The writer suggests various ways to …
SHOUTS & MURMURS about Pavlov using his brother Nikolai for his famous ringing bell experiment. Nikolai insisted on caviar, because that was the only food…
SHOUTS & MURMURS about 'advances ' in the new 'academic discipline' of "Patriot Studies." The Patriotic Studies discipline concerns the …
Shouts & Murmurs by Calvin Trillin: Because of a computer error, the early editions on Wednesday misidentified the person arrested for a series of armed robberies of kitchen-supply stores on the West Side of Manhattan.
The playwright Samuel Beckett is your flight captain in this Shouts & Murmurs piece by Ian Frazier, from 1980.
Parody of diary notes from reporter on the 1976 Democratic Convention, the Presidential campaign, the Inauguration, and the beginning of Carter's …
Frank Sullivan on the perennial clichés of political campaign speeches.
An uncommon coincidence restores order to the universe in this Shouts & Murmurs story from 1932.
Dorothy Parker imagines a comic, catty, boozy date in a speakeasy, in this humor story from 1928.