Robert Mankoff Quotes

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

The reason I'm writing funny books is that I wish there were more.

In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.

I never sat down and said, you know, what the world needs is a good, sick cartoonist.

It's difficult to differentiate between a story that's humorous and clever and one that actually makes people laugh out loud.

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

Using humor as a wedge into different kinds of stories is my go-to. I think anything I do would have some sort of streak of humor in it.

Comedy is a noble art.

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.

If you're trying to make something funny, and it doesn't feel like you're always getting something, it doesn't have quite a lot of joy.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.