Meta-joke
   Meta-joke refers to several somewhat different, but related categories:
   self-referential jokes, jokes about jokes (also known as metahumor),
   and joke templates.^[citation needed]
        * 1 Self-referential jokes
        * 2 Joke about jokes (metahumor)
        * 3 Joke template
[edit] 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:
       some kind of joke?"
       looks around and says, "Saints preserve us! I'm in the wrong joke!"
     * A self-referential knock-knock joke:
     * A self-referential meta-joke:
                I've never meta-joke I didn't like.
[edit] Joke about jokes (metahumor)
   that the joke explicitly talks about other jokes, a usage similar to
   Jokes and Legal Culture cites a meta-joke in a speech of Chief Justice
     I've often started off with a lawyer joke, a complete caricature of
     didn't think the jokes were funny and the non-lawyers didn't know
     they were jokes.
   Another kind of metahumor is when jokes make fun of poor jokes by
   alternative. Such jokes expose the fundamental criterion for joke
   their routines. Hedberg would often follow up a joke with an admission
   that it was poorly told, or insist to the audience that "that joke was
   superior to those of the perceived poor joke and serve to cover an
   career, used to get uproarious laughs when reacting to a failed joke
   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
   In the U.S. version of the British mockumentary The Office, many jokes
   are founded on making fun of poor jokes. Examples include Dwight
   Schrute butchering the Aristocrats joke, 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.
   can be told in polite company: "A limerick packs jokes anatomical/ Into
[edit] Joke template
   This kind of meta-joke is a sarcastic jab at the fact that some jokes
    4. ^ Marc Galanter, "Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal
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     * Jokes