This 9-year-old girl should be writing every caption for the New Yorker cartoons

She is some kind of comedy prodigy.

Kids should just run everything, shouldn't they.

Comedy writer Bess Kalb shared pictures of the captions her cousin's 9-year-old child has written for the New Yorker cartoon caption contest, and they went viral because... well...

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People were pretty impressed with Alice's comedy chops.

That kid has one bright future.

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