One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
I have been married three times and it just keeps better and better, but I'm going to stop here. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People think you get one idea for a cartoon every week, and that's not the way it works. You usually get 10 or 15,… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
I'm making fun of myself and I think I'm making fun of all men in our desperate, desperate attempt to understand the people we're… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
The most popular cartoon of mine is a guy on the phone looking at his appointment book and saying "No, Thursday's out. How about… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
