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Meta-joke refers to several somewhat different, but related categories: self-referential jokes , jokes about jokes also known as metahumor , and joke templates .
Self-referential jokes
This kind of meta-joke is a joke in which a familiar class of jokes is part of the joke.
Examples of meta-jokes:
- An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. The bartender turns to them, takes one look, and says "What is this - some kind of joke?"
- A Priest, a Rabbi and a Leprechaun walk into a bar. The Leprechaun looks around and says, "Woah bejaysus! I'm in the wrong joke!"
- A woman walked into a pub and asked the barman for a double entendre . So he gave it to her.
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Three men walk into a bar... Ouch! (And variants:)
- A dyslexic man walks into a bra.
- Two men walk into a bar... you'd think one of them would have seen it.
- Two men walk into a bar... the third one ducks.
- Two men walk into a bar... but the third one is too short and walks right under it.
- Three blind mice walk into a bar, but they are unaware of their surroundings so to derive humour from it would be exploitative — Bill Bailey
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A performative poet of Hibernia
Rhymed himself into a hernia
He became quite adept
At this practise, except
For the occasional non-sequitur. Tom Stoppard, Travesties - Why did the elephant cross the road? Because the chicken retired.
- Why did the pervert cross the road? Because he couldn't get his dick out of the chicken.
- Why did the punk rocker cross the road? He was stapled to the chicken.
Joke about jokes (metahumour)
Metahumor as humor about humour . Here meta is used to describe the fact that the joke explicitly talks about other jokes, a usage similar to the word metadata (data about data), metatheatrics (a play within a play, as in Hamlet ), or metafiction.
Marc Galanter in the introduction to his book Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture cites a meta-joke in a speech of Chief Justice William Rehnquist:
E.B. White has joked about humour, saying that "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."
Another kind of metahumour is when jokes make fun of poor jokes by replacing a familiar punchline with a serious or nonsensical alternative. Such jokes expose the fundamental criterion for joke definition, "funniness", via its deletion. Comedians such as George Carlin and Mitch Hedberg used metahumor of this sort extensively in their routines. Hedberg would often follow up a joke with an admission that it was poorly told, or insist to the audience that "that was funnier than you acted". These followups usually get laughs superior to those of the perceived poor joke and serve to cover an awkward silence. Johnny Carson, especially late in his Tonight Show career, used to get uproarious laughs when reacting to a failed joke with, for example, a pained expression. Eddie Izzard often reacts to a failed joke by miming writing on a paper pad and murmuring into the microphone something along the lines of "must make joke funnier" or "don't use again" while glancing at the audience.
In the sitcom The Office, many jokes are founded on making fun of poor jokes. Examples include Dwight Schrute butchering The Aristocrats, or Michael Scott awkwardly writing in a fellow employee's card an offensive joke, and then attempting to cover it with more unbearable bad jokes.
Joke template
This kind of meta-joke is a sarcastic jab at the fact that some jokes are endlessly refitted, often by professional jokers, to different circumstances or characters without significant innovation in the humor.
See also
- Self-reference
- Meta-
- Meta-reference
- Fourth wall
References
- ^ Bill Bailey, "Bill Bailey Live - Part Troll", DVD Universal Pictures UK (2004) ASIN B0002SDY1M
- ^ Marc Galanter, "Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture", University of Wisconsin Press (September 1, 2005) ISBN 0299213501, p. 3.
- ^ "Stars turn to jokers for hire"
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Bill Bailey, "Bill Bailey Live - Part Troll"
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