Ian Crouch and Hannah Jocelyn contributed to this edition. Emma Allen is The New Yorker’s cartoon editor and edits humor pieces on newyorker.com. Liz Maynes-Aminzade is the puzzles-and-games ...

It's even harder to be funny and get paid for it. But the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, Bob Mankoff, has made a living making people laugh for decades. He says there are a lot of scientific ...