Trivia: Metajoke Makes Fun of Itself

Posted by Alex in Daily Trivia on June 3, 2008 at 12:51 am


A metajoke is a joke that references itself as a joke.

Here’s an example:

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?"

Or for all you scientists:

An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician find themselves in an
anecdote, indeed an anecdote quite similar to many that you have
no doubt already heard. After some observations and rough calculations

the engineer realizes the situation and starts laughing. A few
minutes later the physicist understands too and chuckles to himself
happily as he now has enough experimental evidence to publish a
paper. This leaves the mathematician somewhat perplexed, as he
had observed right away that he was the subject of an anecdote,
and deduced quite rapidly the presence of humour from similar
anecdotes, but considers this anecdote to be too trivial a corollary
to be significant, let alone funny.
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10 comments to "Trivia: Metajoke Makes Fun of Itself"

  1. Kris Warkentin
    June 3rd, 2008 at 8:27 am

    How many people of a particular social or ethnic group does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

    A finite number. One to screw in the lightbulb and the rest to behave in a manner stereotypical of that group.

    cheers,

    Kris

  2. kil Ste
    June 3rd, 2008 at 9:29 am

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

    You gave me a good laugh there, Kris. Thanks!

  3. Jason E.
    June 3rd, 2008 at 10:34 am

    The PC Joke:

    A number of nouns verb with an unexpected result.

  4. Sofar
    June 3rd, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    My father-in-law can't stand these. His daughter told him the big orange head joke and he kept saying "That wasn't a joke!"

  5. PJ
    June 3rd, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    Four men are walking down the street.

    Three walk into a bar.

    The Fourth one ducks.

  6. Thomas
    June 3rd, 2008 at 11:52 pm

    Not a metajoke at all, but I heard it today, and had to share.

    A man and his wife are driving down the road in the rain. They pass a homeless dog on the side of the road, and the wife tells the husband to turn around to they can rescue it. They get it in the car, and the dog is shivering. The man says, "put it between your legs to warm it up." The woman replies, "I can't do that! It'd stink!" So the man says, "you could hold his nose."

  7. Video Gmae Dork
    June 4th, 2008 at 3:52 am

    Metajoke? No, but I've met a pun.

  8. Thomas
    June 4th, 2008 at 7:18 pm

    Ba-zing! Nice.

  9. Carruthers
    June 4th, 2008 at 11:52 pm

    A dyslexic guy walks into a bra...

  10. Alex
    June 5th, 2008 at 12:08 am

    Hahaha! I love you guys!


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