An in-joke (also known as an in joke or inside joke) is a joke A joke is a short story or ironic depiction of a situation communicated with the intent of being humorous. These jokes will normally have a punchline that will end the sentence to make it humorous. A joke can also be a single phrase or statement that employs sarcasm. The word joke can also be used as a slang term for a person or thing which is not whose humor Humour or humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Many theories exist about what humour is and what social function it serves. People of all ages and cultures respond to humour. The majority of people are able to be amused, to laugh or smile at something funny, and thus they are is clear only to those people who are "inside" a social group, occupation or other community of common understanding; an esoteric joke. It is only humorous to those who know the situation behind it. Inside jokes may exist within a small social clique, such as a group of friends, or they may extend to an entire profession (e.g., inside jokes in the film industry). A book was published in 1998 by McFarland & Company cataloguing many of these references in popular media: Film and Television In-Jokes: Nearly 2,000 Intentional References, Parodies, Allusions, Personal Touches, Cameos, Spoofs and Homages.[1]
An inside joke works to build community, sometimes but not always at the expense of outsiders. Part of the power of an inside joke is that its audience knows that there are those who do not understand the joke.[2] Inside jokes are cryptic allusions to shared common ground that act as triggers. Only those who have shared the common ground provide an appropriate response.[3]An inside joke can be a subtext Subtext is content of a book, play, musical work, film, video game or television series which is not announced explicitly by the characters but is implicit or becomes something understood by the observer of the work as the production unfolds. Subtext can also refer to the thoughts and motives of the characters which are only covered in an aside, where someone will suddenly start laughing at something that is unspoken (often later apologizing for doing so, stating that what they were laughing at was an inside joke).[4]
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References
- ^ Bill van Heerden (1998). Film and Television In-Jokes. McFarland & Co.. pp. 318. ISBN 978-0-7864-3894-5.
- ^ Paul Brooks Duff (2001). Who Rides the Beast?: Prophetic Rivalry and the Rhetoric of Crisis in the Churches of the Apocalypse. Oxford University Press. pp. 81. ISBN 019513835X.
- ^ Randy Y. Hirokawa and Marshall Scott Poole (1996). Communication and Group Decision Making. Sage Publications Inc. pp. 96. ISBN 076190462X.
- ^ Ben Tousey (2003). Acting Your Dreams: Use Acting Techniques to Interpret Your Dreams. Ben Tousey. pp. 118–119. ISBN 1414005423.
Categories: In-jokes
Q. what a joke
Asked by DARYL - Mon Jan 19 15:27:52 2009 - - 8 Answers - 0 Comments
A. good one. lol
Answered by country_gurl - Mon Jan 19 15:32:33 2009
