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Self-referential humor, also known as self-reflexive humor, self-aware humor, or meta humor, is a type of comedic expression [1] that—either directed toward some other subject, or openly directed toward itself—is self-referential in some way, intentionally alluding to the very person who is expressing the humor in a comedic fashion, or to some specific aspect of that same comedic expression.
At your kid’s school event, maybe tone down the language and elicit some clucks from the crowd with a flock of chicken jokes. You could knock out Susan from accounting with your knock-knock jokes .
The self-enhancing style of humor has also been shown to be related to increased levels of self-esteem, optimism, and psychological well-being, as well as decreased levels of depression and anxiety. Individuals who use the self-enhancing humor style are more likely to exhibit extraversion and openness to experience as personality ...
In ethnic jokes he finds that the "stupid" ethnic target in the joke is no stranger to the culture, but rather a peripheral social group (geographic, economic, cultural, linguistic) well known to the joke tellers. [65] So Americans tell jokes about Polacks and Italians, Germans tell jokes about Ostfriesens, and the English tell jokes about the ...
Additionally, while positive self-image is a shared characteristic of narcissism and self-esteem, narcissistic self-appraisals are exaggerated, whereas in non-narcissistic self-esteem, positive views of the self compared with others are relatively modest.
Self-deprecation is the act of reprimanding oneself by belittling, undervaluing, disparaging oneself, [1] or being excessively modest. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It can be used as a way to make complaints, express modesty, invoke optimal reactions or add humour .
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in radio, book, TV series and film form (1978–). Count Duckula, cartoon show on ITV (1988–1993). Red Dwarf, science fiction sitcom on BBC 2 and Dave (1988–1999, 2009, 2012–) Brittas Empire, Chris Barrie sitcom set in a leisure centre about an annoying manager on BBC1 (1991–1997).
I Funny: A Middle School Story, also known as I Funny, is a realistic fiction novel by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein. [1] It was published by Little, Brown and Company in 2012. It was followed by I Even Funnier (2013), I Totally Funniest (2015), I Funny TV (2016), I Funny: School of Laughs (2017) and The Nerdiest, Wimpiest, Dorkiest I ...