Robert Mankoff

Quotes

• “There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just ...”
• “One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lo...”
• “The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some peo...”
• “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 n...”
• “Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.”