What do you think I am, a radio?
That’s my friend Ron Pyke’s variant punchline for one of history’s great anti-jokes.*
This is apropos of the ongoing New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest, which is significantly funnier than the real thing.
* Though I remain a passionate fan of John Cleese’s Frenchmen-in-a-bar-with-a-camel-bartender classic, but I can’t seem to find it online.