Talk:Meta-joke

message: notice the example under jokes about jokes:
"you've exceeded the legal character limit in this joke." 
the word this refers to the joke itself.  Therefore, this is a self referanceing joke and belongs in the category above it.
:It is not. Please read the definitions carefully. Simply to refer to itself is insufficient. The joke itself must have the specific structure it refers to. Mikkalai 23:54, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Meta jokes are a subset of jokes, and jokes are generally required to be funny 2605:E000:850A:B000:ACDD:AA74:C71F:1DEA (talk) 17:58, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

text: They are three different kinds. The purpose is to distinguish them, not to put into one basket. Mikkalai 23:54, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

text: Isn't self-referring what meta- means? Hyacinth 00:54, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Older discussion

message: My mother said to me, "I have a great knock-knock joke!  You start it."
I said, "Knock, knock!"
She said, "Who's there?"
I then paused, realizing that we couldn't proceed with the joke because I didn't have enough information about the joke with which to effectively proceed.
That, apparently, was the joke: me sitting there with a blank stare.
This sort of joke breaks whatever fourth-wall jokes contain as their inherent possession.  But does this alone make it a meta-joke?  I think: yes, it does.
Allixpeeke 00:20, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Its humor is in subverting a convention of humor: yes, that's a meta-joke. —Tamfang (talk) 03:27, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

text: I thought I made that joke up.  Sigh. 2605:E000:850A:B000:ACDD:AA74:C71F:1DEA (talk) 17:56, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  A "knock-knock" joke my mother told me when I was young: 

message: What about this one?:
-What's the difference between a duck and also?
-A duck eats biscuits and also bread!
HA!
83.182.152.54 00:19, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Postmodern joke? 

message: Would it be a metajoke if a Tv program or film made fun of its own deus ex Machina? ArdClose (talk) 15:35, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's self-referential humor, but it's not a joke about a joke. —Tamfang (talk) 02:48, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Meta-Joke

message: : So he gives her one.
: So he gives it to her.
This has been switched sixteen times in nineteen months, sometimes with a note that the new wording is 'clearer'.  All but two of these were by anonymice, so I looked up their IP addresses, and what d'you know: gave her one is preferred in England and the Isle of Man, and gave it to her in the rebellious colonies. —Tamfang (talk) 04:59, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm American and the first one is vastly funnier to me 2605:E000:850A:B000:ACDD:AA74:C71F:1DEA (talk) 18:00, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

text: "he gave her one" idiomatically means "he had sex with her". So of course it may mean that he gave her the drink she asked for, but... Captain Pedant (talk) 23:21, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  double-écrire 

message: The example jokes need explanations to tell us why they're funny, preferably done in painfully excrutiating detail.  That would itself be a metajoke and would need to be glossed.  But seriously, why is the one about the birds and the refrigerator funny?  Is it a non-sequitur? --Colapeninsula (talk) 14:50, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That joke is surrealist, not meta, unless I've missed something. I'm removing it. 81.157.41.45 (talk) 02:52, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explanations 

message: Q: "How do you take out a Swedish submarine?"
A: "Knock knock"
__meco (talk) 21:54, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this "knock knock" reference a meta-joke?