Bob Mankoff talks Esquire, The New Yorker, Cartoons, Humor, Jewish Culture and Augmenting Human Creativity

Today’s guest on the show is Esquire’s Cartoon and Humor Editor, Bob Mankoff.

I had the opportunity to visit Bob at the Esquire offices and we had a serious conversation about humor. I mean we really had a lot of fun just breaking it down into little tiny philosophical and theoretical morsels and then putting it back together again.

We also talked about his position at Esquire, augmenting human creativity, two cool cats, the balls to be funny, submitting cartoons, intense logic studies and much much more.

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The Cliff Notes

1. The New Ways – Esquire
2. The Old Ways – The New Yorker
3. David Remnick
4. Drew Dernavich
5. Paul Noth
6. Bob Eckstein
7. Ben Schwartz
8. Matt Diffy 
9. Will McPhail
10. More Longform
11. Everything has to be Interesting
12. The Mix of Stand-Up Comedy & Information
13. Presenting Yourself to the World
14. Blossoming the Seeds to Who Your Wanna Be
15. TV Show: Fame
16. The High School of Music & Art
17. “Professor” Irwin Corey
18. Double Talking the Teacher
19. That Guy Joel Olsteen 
20. Drawing on the Verbal Engine
21. Almost Like a Scat
22. Jewish Culture
23. Kutsher’s Hotel and Country Club
24. Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel
25. Concord Resort Hotel
26. Jackie Mason
27. Buddy Hackett
28. Rodney Dangerfield
29. Funny Families
30. Intense Logic Studies
31. Woody Allen 
32. The Balls to be Funny
33. Submitting Cartoons
34. What comes first the illustration or the caption?
35. Images Lead to Images and Words Lead to Words
36. Types of Focus
37. Creativity is Difficult
38. We’re Not Algorithms
39. We Choose to Laugh
40. Take Me To My Room
41. Lenny Bruce
42. Mort Sahl
43. George Carlin
44. Richard Pryor
45. Chitlin’ Circuit
46. Belle Barth
47. They Take Their Ideology So Seriously
48. That’s Not Funny
49. Everybody Lies to Themselves
50. Strong Opinion, Strong Vested Interest
51. The Flat Earth People
52. Kyrie Irving 
53. B.O.B
54. Skeptical of the Amazing Edifice
55. The Right Amount of Wrong
56. Making Jokes of things that Don’t Work Out
57. Ridiculous but not Tragic
58. The A.I.
59. Jamie Brew
60. ClickHole
61. Augmenting Human Creativity
62. Slack
63. Writing in the Voice of Musicians
64. Two Cool Cats
65. Gettin’ It Right
66. Humor and Communications
67. Andy Borowitz
68. Pay It Forward

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Bob Mankoff, Esquire’s Cartoon and Humor Editor. Check out the September issue of Esquire, hitting newsstands August 15.

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