Robert Mankoff
Robert Mankoff
Robert "Bob" Mankoffis an American cartoonist, editor, and author. He is the current cartoon editor for The New Yorker magazine. Before he succeeded Lee Lorenz as cartoon editor, Mankoff was a cartoonist for The New Yorker for twenty years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
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I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.
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The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.
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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 use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.
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Someone's been sleeping in my bed, too, and there she is on Screen Nine!
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people are funny because they're absurd in situations where they don't know they're absurd.
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I love the convenience, but the roaming charges are killing me.
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I never met a consumer technology I didn't like. You build it and I'll buy it.
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I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.
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None of the cartoons that I ever did are basically, if they're about sex, they're about sex in sort of this, you know, this ironic way, or the way that people actually treat it.
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I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these embarrassing things, all these guilt-filled things, all these anxiety filled things are material.
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I'm really interested in the link between creativity and humor because humor is a type of creativity, and I do think that humorous people and humorous health helps creativity.
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Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.
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I have been married three times and it just keeps better and better, but I'm going to stop here.
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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 with and hopefully through humor have them understand us.