Prove Your Comedy Chops with Moment’s Cartoon Caption Contest
Welcome to the Moment Magazine Cartoon Caption Contest, founded with the help of New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff, and drawn by New Yorker cartoonist Ben Schwartz.
Do you have a way with words and humor? If so, look at the cartoon below and send us a caption—or two or three! Plus scroll down to vote for your favorite caption. It’s free and fun!
Winners may claim a free Moment subscription for a friend of family member. Contest open to U.S. residents 18 and above.
Plus: Read interviews with some of our most prolific caption contest contributors here.
Submit a caption for this cartoon by July 25 by writing it in as a comment at the bottom of this page!
Vote for your favorite caption by filling out the form immediately below!
“Now?”
— Norman Danzig, Bronx, NY
“Matchmaker, matchmaker, just let me snack.”
—Stephen Nadler, Princeton, NJ
“Unless that arrow’s filled with prune juice and patience, don’t bother!”
—Michele Starnes, Kenner, LA
Vote for your favorite! The winner will receive a free subscription to Moment to give to a friend. Any U.S. resident age 18 or older can enter.
Vote for your favorite caption
Chuckle at the Spring 2025 winning caption—and see who wrote it!
“Would you ever date a German shepherd?”
—Stephen Nadler, Princeton, NJ
How to Submit Your Caption(s)
Submit as a comment below by Winter 2025. Finalists will appear in the upcoming issue. To vote for the winner of the Spring 2025 contest (see finalists above), use the vote form.
Note: By submitting a caption, voting or leaving a reply, you are agreeing to receive Moment‘s award-winning newsletters.
“I don’t care what Moment says.These uniforms are not Kosher for Shabbos.”
“Is there a centerfold?”
“Would you be more comfy if you change into your body with the holes and dents?”
“When you said you needed to sit for a moment I thought you meant a minute to meditate.”
“For the Moment, robots will inherit the world!”
“For the Moment to visit Israel, you need a GOOD HEART with LOVE for the Jewish people!”
“You’re not fooling anyone by putting that Playbot magazine inside a Moment Magazine cover!”
“Are there any instructions on how to communicate with dull-minded Washington, D.C. leaders?”
I knew all your intelligence wasn’t artificial.
“If we buy a Moment Subscription, they may also throw a wrench in the works!”
“Isn’t that the Magazine that rose to fame printing the bodies of work of the best and brightest cartoon captioneers in the world?”
“I’m guessing you picked up the printed edition because online you couldn’t identify all the boxes with bicycles and they figured out you’re a robot.”
Understanding Moment cartoon captions requires mind over matter. If you don’t mind, then it doesn’t matter!
“They recommend the Bar Mitzvah tour.”
“You just open it up and start reading without entering a password or username?”
“What the hell is a Mohel?”
“You can purchase a Tesla with an AI license, and it will be driven to your home by remote control!”
” Still searching for intelligent life?”
“That Nadler guy won again?!”
Love it!
“I think it was a thing the humans read.”
“It was the magazine that said AI was a flash in the pan.”
“The captions are so much funnier in binary.”
“How close are we to peace in the Middle East?”
“What is their stand on bot mitzvahs?”
“You will see hallucinations…” (Proverbs 23:33)
ALL Jewish learning is Deep Learning!
AISH is half AI !
The Moment Debate needs a bot kol!
I love how each issue ends with the Spice Bots!
I’d love a byte from the Talk of the Table feature!
Do their writers use SchmoozeGPT?
“If you’ll get your electro-biological-smelling-device out of that magazine I’ll change into my humanoid body and put on that ‘Afternoon Delight Song’ that heats up your circuitboards so much!”
I’ve got a print subscription ’cause I can’t login and prove I’m not a robot!
“I thought a NANOBOT referred to my absent-minded NANNY!”
a little bit 😉
“The AI Rising Lion of Israel is named BOT SHALOM!”
“I didn’t say you’re lazy, I said you’re always in ‘power saving mode’!”
“You planning on becoming a Cyberg now?”
“Can you believe they sell robo pets called JUNK YARD DOGS?”
“You’ll never win the ‘Caption Contest’ if you stay in ‘Power Saving Mode’ all the time.”
“Is it possible that Ben Schwartz is a living organism that was abducted by aliens and imitates a cyborg?”
“So everything we thought was old is new again?”
“Our commander said in the Moment, ‘I came, I saw, I PLUGGED IN!'”
“Just keep trying-you’ll be a ‘favorite caption’ someday.”
“At some point, you’re going to have to install the update.”
“Don’t blow a capacitor when I say this, but only a small percentage of your parts are Jewish!”
“Quit stalling. At some point, you’re going to have to install the update.”
Any new medical breakthroughs for squeaky joints?
I must have gotten a subscription as a Bot Mitzvah gift.
“Is that the Golda Meir centerfold issue?”
“Our comrade met the Lorena Bobbitt creature, and now our comrade has a SHORT CIRCUIT!”
It doesn’t say anything about Shabbat Mode.
“Don’t overstimulate your neural network.”
“What a great in-flight magazine.”
Dad, what’s a bris?
“I don’t think that crash test dummy school is what you think it is.”
“Is Iron Man the centerfold again?!”
“There is a Mount Trashmore Park, and they are seeking old AI relics like us to guard the park.”
“It’s because of readers like you that we’re going to lose the tree.”
“Jews and captioners open it from the right.”
“It says for the Moment, if I had an AI brain like yours, then I would never have to scratch my head!”
“Is Poseidon really an underwater cyborg? In any case, he uses his trident to STICK HOLELY WATER into you!”