Subscribe, rate, and please leave us a funny ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review wherever you listen to podcasts.
Welcome back for another episode of Is There Something In This?
Outside, seaplanes kept coming down the East River like they’d been thrown, and every twenty minutes Scott and I stopped mid-sentence to watch one not crash. One aborted, came around, and hit the water hard enough that we both made the noise. Nobody plans these segments.
I’m back from Columbus, where actual listeners turned up and forced us to describe our audience out loud. Here’s what we landed on: you’re pretentious, but you’re dumb enough to know you shouldn’t be. You want Barry Blitt on trade deficits, but you also want to know if the mouse has a really big dick. You are, in other words, exactly like us. (btw here’s a thing: I’m now live-drawing the ideas as we go, so the video version on Substack and YouTube is where you can watch me ruin a perfectly good joke in real time.)
Then we did the jokes. A jester’s head in the guillotine bucket, and the salesman who pitched the guillotine to the king as a workflow disruption. A MoMA guard with a new sign about muttering AI slop near the Van Gogh. A snowman in couples counselling, his wife a bucket of water: “I just think this summer has changed her.” A moth has an idea, and every moth for miles descends on it…
Somewhere in there, we stopped writing jokes and got onto the Flock cameras, the licence-plate network that lets cops look up their exes without a subpoena.
Also: the balls on the Big Merino, a pigeon with a hustle, a Borg water tower in Greenpoint, and a Gallagher courtroom gag from which Scott has formally removed his name. Because why not?
Our new book, You’re Not a Real Parent Until..., is out on October 13th and available for pre-order now wherever you buy books. It has, I’m reliably informed, already reached one bookshelf in Moscow.
By the way, if you want to binge all of our previous episodes in an endless playlist like it’s some kind of Netflix Drama that just got nominated for an Emmy®, you can find our entire backlog right here.
Send us your cartoon idea suggestions! We can’t guarantee we will read every one on the show, but we will read all messages we get here.
▶ Be sure to send in your suggestions via Instagram @newyorkcartoons or yourenotarealemail@gmail.com. Cheers!
▶ Buy our new book at: www.realdogowner.com
▶ Check out our Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/ITSITpodcast
‘til next time!
Your pal,
PS. Look, if this actually did something for your brain (or at least distracted you from the creeping dread of your own inbox for six minutes), please consider restacking this and sharing it with your people. It’s the only way the word spreads.
Copyright Disclaimers: We’re inviting you into our living room; don’t walk out with our lamp. Please refrain from selling our jokes. All original content is © Copyright 2024 Jason Chatfield & Scott Dooley for “Is There Something In This?” All rights reserved.
We welcome you to download and play the podcast and share it with others for personal use; please acknowledge “Is There Something in This?” Podcast as the source of the material. You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content.
On the topic: This podcast may include images that are used under the Fair Use doctrine of the U.S. Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 107). These images are utilised for purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, education, and research. Fair Use allows for the limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holder, provided the use does not infringe upon the market value of the original work.
We do not claim ownership of any third-party images used in this podcast. All rights remain with their respective copyright holders. If you believe your copyrighted work has been used in a way that does not fall within Fair Use, please contact us, and we will address any concerns promptly.
