Ability Quote by Robert Mankoff Download Open image “The ability to be funny is pretty widespread in the population.” — Robert Mankoff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ability Funny Humor
Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as… — Alan Zweibel Copy Share Image
I think everyone is born funny. Sadly, some lives beat it out of them. I don't know what allows someone to keep being funny… — Catherine O'Hara Copy Share Image
Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
“This brings up yet another, far more important misconception: that being comically generative and having a sense of humor are one and the same… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Yeah, it constantly feels like you're constantly checking if you're funny enough, because I think this country's naturally funny. I think the sort of… — Lucy Beaumont Copy Share Image
Very few have the talent to make others laugh without being laughed at. — M. S. Narayana Copy Share Image
In every generation there are a few people who are authentically funny. The cosmetics change. You may not be able to articulate it, and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh. — Judy Gold Copy Share Image
With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism. — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world… — Calvin Trillin 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
I don't think there's a direct correlation between my sexuality and my skiing ability. But I think because I was so concerned about it… — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability! — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
