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

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

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.

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.

Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

When you look back at the older cartoons, they're very much more observational cartoons. And the cartoon, the people in the cartoons are not making the joke.

There's usually nothing in a guy's joke in which we have to understand what's going on in someone else's mind.