VERY SEMI-SERIOUS: A PARTIALLY THOROUGH PORTRAIT OF NEW YORKER CARTOONISTS
HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET
New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff, who’s also the guy who concocted and drew that famous New Yorker cartoon with the caption “How about never? Is never good for you?,” takes viewers of this documentary through a tour of just what it takes to make a New Yorker cartoon. This study also includes such classic contributors as James Thurber and Charles Addams, so expect the best. And expect to laugh. Good thing for freeze frame…