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| x Transpositional pun |
A transpositional pun is a complicated pun format with two aspects. It involves transposing the words in a well-known phrase or saying to get a daffynition-like clever redefinition of a well-known word unrelated to the original phrase. The...
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| x Daffynition |
A daffynition (portmanteau of daffy and definition) is a pun format involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word (or group of words). They are similar to transpositional puns, but often much less...
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| x Radio Yerevan |
Radio Yerevan, or Armenian Radio jokes have been very popular in the Soviet Union and in other Communist countries of the ex-Eastern bloc since the second half of the 20th century.
These jokes of Q&A; type are allegedly from the Question & Answer...
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| x Bilingual pun |
A bilingual pun is a pun in which a word in one language is similar to a word in another language. Typically, use of bilingual puns results in in-jokes, since there is often a very small overlap between speakers of the two languages.
Occasionally,...
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| x Elephant joke |
An elephant joke is a joke, almost always an absurd riddle or conundrum and often a sequence of such, that involves an elephant. Elephant jokes were a fad in the 1960s, with many people constructing large numbers of them according to a set formula....
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| x Three wishes joke |
The three wishes joke is a form of joke in which the protagonist is given three wishes by a supernatural being, and fails to make the best use of them. Common scenarios include releasing a genie from confinement - perhaps finding an old oil lamp and...
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| x Irish jokes |
Irish jokes are a class of jokes, generally based on a stereotypes of the Irish people. Such jokes are seen as offensive in Ireland, where they are not told. Irish jokes were told in the UK as part of a tradition of colonialism. They stem from a...
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| x Bellman joke |
The Bellman joke is a type of simple joke popular among Swedish schoolchildren, always including a person named Bellman as the main character.
The jokes first became popular in the 19th century, and were originally inspired by the life of the poet...
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| x Milkman joke |
Milkman jokes, though they appear in dozens of different forms, all have the same basic plot: a woman gives birth to an infant who more closely resembles the local milkman than her husband, revealing the child's biological father and, in the process...
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| x One-liner joke |
A one-liner is a joke that is delivered in a single line. Many comedians and actors have adopted this comedic method in their act. Some, including Rodney Dangerfield, Bruce Campbell, Steven Wright, Emo Philips, Henny Youngman, Mitch Hedberg, Dan...
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| x Lightbulb joke |
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A lightbulb joke is a joke that asks how many people of a certain group are needed to change, replace, or screw in a light bulb. Generally, the punch line answer highlights a stereotype of the target group. There are numerous versions of the...
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| x Switcheroo |
A switcheroo is a sudden unexpected variation or reversal often associated with a joke (sometimes "the old switcheroo").
As a comedic device, this was a favorite of Woody Allen; for a time, he used so many switcheroos that friends referred to him as...
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| x Island joke |
Island jokes are jokes about a person or group of people stranded on a desert island. This setting is typically used to play on stereotypes of the people present. This may refer to their profession, religion or nationality, or the people involved...
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| x Little Johnny |
Little Johnny jokes are about a small boy who likes to ask embarrassing questions and has a very straightforward thinking. At times he is well educated in the terminology of sex (then he is known as (Little) dirty Johnny), while at others he is all...
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| x Penis joke |
In comedy, a dick joke (other terms for the same meaning: cock joke, in British English nob gag) is a joke that makes either an indirect or a direct reference to a human penis, also less commonly used as an umbrella term for dirty jokes. The famous...
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| x Mother-in-law joke |
Humour and jokes about one's mother-in-law (the mother of one's spouse) are a mainstay of comedy. The humour is based on the premise that the average mother-in-law often considers her son-in-law to be unsuitable for her daughter (or daughter-in-law...
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| x Mathematical joke |
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A mathematical joke is a form of humor which relies on aspects of mathematics or a stereotype of mathematicians to derive humor. The humor may come from a pun, or from a double meaning of a mathematical term. It may also come from a lay person's...
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| x Quickie |
A Quickie is a short joke that is used between segments on the children's television series, Garfield and Friends. There is at least one Garfield or U.S. Acres Quickie per episode. Most of the Quickies are based on a Sunday comic strip, and some on...
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| x Russian reversal |
Russian reversal is a type of joke popularized by Yakov Smirnoff which frequently appears in many online communities, particularly on Slashdot, Digg, Totse, and Uncyclopedia The general form of the Soviet Russia joke is that the subject and objects...
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| x Blonde jokes |
Blonde jokes are a class of jokes based on a stereotype of dumb blonde women.
Many blonde jokes are variations on other discriminatory jokes, and are often interchangable with other discriminatory jokes (such as redneck jokes) in mail merge format....
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| x 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.
This kind of meta-joke is a joke in which a familiar class of jokes is part of the joke....
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| x Russian jokes |
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Russian jokes (Russian: анекдо́ты (transcribed anekdoty), literally anecdotes) the most popular form of Russian humour, are short fictional stories or dialogues with a punch line.
Russian joke culture includes a series of categories with fixed and...
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| x Knock-knock joke |
The knock-knock joke is a type of joke, probably the best-known format of the pun, and is a time-honoured "call and answer" exercise.
It is a roleplay exercise, with a punster and a recipient of wit.
The standard format has five lines:
Knock-knock...
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| x Prank call |
A prank call, also known as a crank call, is a form of practical joke committed over the telephone. Prank phone calls began to gain an America-wide following over a period of many years, as they gradually became a staple of the obscure and amusing...
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| x Practical joke |
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A practical joke or gag is a stunt or trick to purposely make someone feel foolish or victimized, usually for humor. Practical jokes differ from confidence tricks in that the victim finds out, or is let in on, the joke rather than being fooled into...
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| x Russian political jokes |
Russian political jokes (or, rather, Russophone political jokes) are a part of Russian humour and can be naturally grouped into the major time periods: Imperial Russia, Soviet Union and finally post-Soviet Russia. Quite a few political themes can be...
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