79 Quotes by Robert Mankoff

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    Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other end to do that editing for them.

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    but the reality is that the world is transformed by it, but we, unfortunately, remain the same.

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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 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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