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Hi Gawkerati. There are more faux contest captions like Charles Lavoie's "Christ, what an asshole!" around, most currently in Daniel Radosh's consistently funny anti-caption contest, in which readers submit the worst possible caption for the current drawing. Radosh's legions are already working on the new Gahan Wilson drawing; after you're sufficiently inspired, you may want to enter for real.
Other cartoonist-type wags took stabs at various NYer cartoons in a thread called "Photoshop Fun: Make Your Own New Yorker Cartoon!" Earl Wang did a bit for McSweeney's about a previous incarnation of the caption contest. In some subliminal webby way, it may well have inspired Lavoie, what with the rampant cussing.
BTW, here's who to vote for in the current contest (a snake-wrapped woman on the couch, drawn by Matthew Diffee): John Mainieri, who submitted "Oh, he probably just smells your python." It's by far the funniest and he's from New York. What better reasons are there?
Later on: Ah, yes, another potty-mouthed parody. I'd almost forgotten about this one.
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My goodness, Emily Gordon, it’s you. I read Gawker, and that is how I found this. I just wanted to say hello, and due to this blog may feel compelled to renew my recently-lapsed subscription to the New Yorker. (Without the subway in my life, I fall hopelessly behind.) Hello from Chelsey.