Roger Ebert Had Jokes, er… Cartoons

Roger Ebert, was one of the most popular movie reviewers of our time, the first film critic to win a Pulitzer prize, and a fan of cartoons.

Mr. Ebert was a regular contributor to The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption contest and had even won the contest on at least one occasion.  Robert Mankoff takes a look at some of Roger Ebert’s Final Cartoon Captions at The New Yorker.

The cartoon that is posted above features one of Ebert’s captions, but it wasn’t the one that got him the win (“I’m not going to say the word I’m thinking of.”) or even the one that I thought was the funniest (“Now watch how I lift my tray table to it’s original and upright position.”).  We’ll save those for folks that click over to the original New Yorker piece.