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Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.
— Robert Mankoff
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Robert Mankoff
cartoonist, editor
1944
Robert Mankoff is an American cartoonist, editor, and author. He was the cartoon editor for The New Yorker for nearly twenty years. Before he succeeded Lee Lorenz as cartoon editor at The New Yorker, Mankoff was a New Yorker cartoonist for twenty years.
All Quotes by Robert Mankoff
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There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.
— Robert Mankoff
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The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.
— Robert Mankoff
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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.
— Robert Mankoff
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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.
— Robert Mankoff