#16: Emily Flake

Someone You Might Like Who Helps Other People You Might Like

Update: November 3, 2023

The amazing

Emily Flake

has a new release from Andrews McMeel Publishing: It’s probably the best tool I’ve seen for generating joke ideas for New Yorker cartoons (especially when, like me, your brain is basically a potato.)

Not only is it a helpful guide on the creative process of writing jokes, but it is a physical, practical, tangible thing you can hold in your hand that exists in time and space. That very notion makes a big difference from, say, an un-named machine-learning generator doing the (terrible) work of figuring out funny premises…