There's all kinds of theories among the cartoonists: start with funniest, end with funniest.
Robert MankoffI 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 MankoffNone 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 MankoffI know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.
Robert Mankoff