Robert Mankoff Quotes

• While the end-of-the-world scenario will be rife with unimaginable horrors, we believe that the pre-end period will be filled with unprecedented opportunities for profit.

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  Believe, Opportunity, World

  "Reality check: for real sustainability, some economies will need to shrink" by Erik Assadourian, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2014.

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• It's not the ink, it's the think.

  Robert Mankoff

  Thinking, Ink

  "Inking and Thinking" by Robert Mankoff, www.newyorker.com. June 16, 2010.

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• If you have any problems at all, don't hesitate to shut up.

  Robert Mankoff

  Work, Problem, Shut Up

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• The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that you have much more observational humor.

  Robert Mankoff

  People, Generations, Lines

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 24, 2014.

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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.

  Robert Mankoff

  Creative, Process, Cartoonist

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I do find that humor helps in relationships. It certainly helps in my marriage now because I'm a very, very fallible person. And if I wasn't funny I'd be kicked right out the door.

  Robert Mankoff

  Doors, Helping, Persons

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. December 4, 2015.

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• There are no cartoons about happy marriages.

  Robert Mankoff

  Cartoon, Happy Marriage

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• As a cartoonist I do what I find funny. As an editor I have a broader approach realizing that humor is inherently subjective and I don't want my preferences to rule out what others might like.

  Robert Mankoff

  Editors, Want, Might

  "Ask the Author Live: Robert Mankoff on the Cartoon Issue". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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• A lot of what the Internet is showing is that talent is more disperse than gatekeepers such as myself...

  Robert Mankoff

  Talent, Internet, Gatekeepers

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 24, 2014.

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• The digital realm give cartoons and cartoonists more possibilities for exposure.

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  Giving, Cartoon, Digital

  "Ask the Author Live: Robert Mankoff on the Cartoon Issue". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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• There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.

  Robert Mankoff

  Laughing, Whimsy, Dignity

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 4, 2015.

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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.

  Robert Mankoff

  Thinking, Listening, Want

  "New Yorker Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. December 29, 2014.

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• There is no Algorithm for Humor

  Robert Mankoff

  Algorithms

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• Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

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  Cartoon, Needs, Amount

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• 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 never, is never good for you?"

  Robert Mankoff

  Book, Phones, Guy

  "Ask the Author Live: Robert Mankoff on the Cartoon Issue". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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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.

  Robert Mankoff

  Sex, People, Ironic

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I was the founder of the Cartoon Bank in the 90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.

  Robert Mankoff

  Cartoon, Income, Way

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• 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

  Short Life, Fruit Flies, Cartoon

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• Im 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

  Voice, Style, Computer

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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.

  Robert Mankoff

  Thinking, Anxiety, Guilt

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 24, 2014.

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• Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.

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  Levels, Fields, Understood

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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.

  Robert Mankoff

  Fun, Men, Thinking

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. December 4, 2015.

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• There's all kinds of theories among the cartoonists: start with funniest, end with funniest.

  Robert Mankoff

  Kind, All Kinds, Cartoonist

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The ability to be funny is pretty widespread in the population.

  Robert Mankoff

  Ability

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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

  Mind, Jokes

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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