Robert Mankoff Quotes

My job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

If I'm talking to you, I can't see you, but I can see inside of you and what you're thinking. That's a mixed blessing.

If I can relate to the joke, it's going to be funny.

I think to perfectly understand somebody is to predict their next move.

Part of being a sentient human is the ability to anticipate others' mental states - to say "Fred's going to hate this but Jane would love it."

It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.

In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.

"I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind."

"I've learned what's funny verbally ain't so funny on e-mail: They don't hear your intonations. Melissa broke up with somebody over that. She tried to tell him: "That was a joke!" But he just didn't get it. Mick Jagger said, "F- 'em if they don't get the joke." And I love him. That comes with age: Knowing it's their problem, not mine."

I haven’t got the heart to take the mickey out of him, even,” said Fred, looking over at Ron’s crumpled figure. “Mind you . . . when he missed the fourteenth . . .” He made wild motions with his arms as though doing an upright doggy-paddle. “Well, I’ll save it for parties, eh?

A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

If you find you are not understanding my explaination for a joke, hit F5 on your browser and the page will refresh and I will explain it again.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

Graeme Smith is capable of reading other people's heads.

Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?