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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, "Saints preserve us! 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. * An Irishman walks past a bar. * 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. * * A seal walks into a club. * * 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〔Bill Bailey, "Bill Bailey Live - Part Troll", DVD Universal Pictures UK (2004) ASIN B0002SDY1M〕 * "My dog's got no dictionary"; "How does he spell?"; "Terribly". * "My dog's got no nose"; "How does he smell?"; "Awful". *W.S. Gilbert wrote one of the definitive "anti-limericks": *:There was an old man of St. Bees, *:Who was stung in the arm by a wasp; *: When they asked, "Does it hurt?" *: He replied, "No, it doesn't, *:But I thought all the while 'twas a Hornet." 〔Wells 1903, pp. xix-xxxiii.〕〔(Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia Of Literature - Google Boeken )〕 * Tom Stoppard's anti-limerick from ''Travesties'': *:A performative poet of Hibernia *:Rhymed himself into a hernia *: He became quite adept *: At this practice, except *:For the occasional non-sequitur. * These non-limericks rely on the listener's familiarity with the limerick's general structure: *:There was a young man from Peru *:Whose limericks all stopped at line two * (may be followed with) *:There was an old maid from Verdun The joke being that "Verdun" rhymes with "line one", so it can be inferred that if there were a second line, it would say "Whose limericks all stopped at line one." * (and even with an explanation that the narrator knows an unrecitable limerick about Emperor Nero) * Why did the elephant cross the road? Because the chicken retired. * Two drums and a cymbal roll down a hill. (''Cue drum sting'') * What's an onomatopoeia? Just what it sounds like! * A self-referential meta-joke: *:I've never meta-joke I didn't like. *:Why did the chicken cross the road? To have its motives questioned. *: Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. *: Lysdexia *: There was a man who entered a local paper's pun contest. He sent in ten different puns, in the hope that at least one of the puns would win. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did. * Today's Horoscope: "You are easily influenced by what you read and have the ability to make vague sentences somehow applicable to your own existence." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Meta-joke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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