Bob Mankoff Picks Three Jokes

The New Yorker’s cartoon editor, Bob Mankoff, is a legendary figure in cartooning; he teaches a course in humor, and hosts a video series on newyorker.com. But, as an aspiring cartoonist, it took Mankoff five hundred tries before he got a cartoon into the magazine. (Think you can do better? Give it a try.) David Remnick asks Mankoff for his three favorite jokes. His choices are classics: there’s one in a bar, a rabbi talking to God, and a three-legged pig.