Playing fields Quotes by Robert Mankoff

I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'll look at it, and I…

— Robert Mankoff

Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That's true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times. This subjectivity…

— Robert Mankoff

'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.

— Robert Mankoff

I have been married three times and it just keeps better and better, but I'm going to stop here.

— Robert Mankoff

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing…

— Robert Mankoff

The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that you have…

— Robert Mankoff

When you look back at the older cartoons, they're very much more observational cartoons. And the cartoon, the people in the cartoons are not…

— Robert Mankoff

There's usually nothing in a guy's joke in which we have to understand what's going on in someone else's mind.

— Robert Mankoff

I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.

— Robert Mankoff

Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

— Robert Mankoff

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

— Robert Mankoff

I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these embarrassing things,…

— Robert Mankoff