Judge, 1929-02-16 · page 24 of 36
Judge — February 16, 1929 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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This page from Judge magazine's "Jest in Pun" section collects short humorous quips and visual gags typical of 1920s-30s American satire. The cartoons mock everyday social situations: a magistrate hearing a marital dispute where the wife dominates conversation; apartment dwellers annoyed by neighbors' "clever imitations"; and a car crash where a woman driver is blamed for carelessness. The written jokes target stereotypes: a naïve poet expecting wealth from verses; a hypochondriac; and clever wordplay exploiting puns (the "Ballad of the Lovesick Medical Student" twists "analyze" into "ana-to-my"). The humor relies on predictable domestic friction, gender stereotypes (skeptical wives, careless drivers), and forced puns—typical of Judge's lighthearted satirical style. The magazine positions itself as wholesome family entertainment while gently mocking middle-class pretensions and human follies.
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JUDGE Mauistrate—Did you and your wife have words? “Well, your honor—she had.” Born (apartment dwellers)—Say, y’must think yer awful funny in there with yer clever imitations! | Jest in Pun This is SUPER-PUN Week, so LOOK OUT! Hopeful Poet—And when 1 sell my verses, darling, we'll be rich! Skeptical Wife—Don't count your cheeki before they're hatched. Just warming up—WAIT! “L sce where another actress was in an auto crash. What do you suppose t so careless for Recogniti “Ignition, h—I whole darn engine! keep on being mashed the Only a starter—stick around... Did I tell you about the biga- mist who loved two well, but not wisely? And what he said in court was, “Honest udge, I didn’t mean no harem!” Watch this one take the blue pencil on the old “gruesome alibi... “Doc, I don’t seem t. b. feelin’ complained the hypo- chondriac. “Consumption be the matter with me?” And that brings us to the one that’s sure to wow ‘em out in Princeton, It’s called “Give a sentence with ‘analyze’ and ‘anat » Lovesick Medical Student.” Here's it: My Analyze over the o-cean, My Analyze over the se-e-e-ca... My Analyze over the o-c Oh — bring — ba-w-a-a-ack — my Ana-to-my! Just one more. with “soap dishes”... “Well, boysh, let soap dishes not our lasht drink together!” —Jaquita Sentence P. S—Thank you for the nice letters, Mister Littlekiss and Mister Jones. But geewiz, Jes: that certainly was an Eiffel story comicbooks.com