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| '''Self-referential humor''' relies on a subject making light of itself in some manner. For example, a ] play that featured the story of a group of fictional ]s attempting to put on a comedy play would be fertile ground for self-referential humor. A more concrete example would be the '']'' episode "]". Another example would be ]'s sketch ''No one called Jones'', in which he plays a teacher telling students with names like "Genital", "Myprick" and "Zipper" to stop making smutty, puerile jokes. Because it can be subtle, it is often used instead of more obvious humor in places that aspire to be taken seriously. | '''Self-referential humor''' relies on a subject making light of itself in some manner. For example, a ] play that featured the story of a group of fictional ]s attempting to put on a comedy play would be fertile ground for self-referential humor. A more concrete example would be the '']'' episode "]". Another example would be ]'s sketch ''No one called Jones'', in which he plays a teacher telling students with names like "Genital", "Myprick" and "Zipper" to stop making smutty, puerile jokes. Because it can be subtle, it is often used instead of more obvious humor in places that aspire to be taken seriously. | ||
| Software is sometimes named with a humorous self-referencing or ]. For instance, ] stands for '''L'''AME '''A'''in't an ] '''E'''ncoder. Another famous example is ], which stands for '''P'''HP ] ]. | Software is sometimes named with a humorous self-referencing or ]. | ||
| The first, and probably most popular, use was the name of the ] ('''G'''NU's '''N'''ot '''U'''nix) project. | |||
| Some other famous examples are | |||
| ], which stands for '''W'''ine '''I'''s '''N'''ot an '''E'''mulator, and | |||
| ], for '''L'''AME '''A'''in't an ] '''E'''ncoder, and | |||
| ], for '''P'''HP ] ]. | |||
| Self-referential humor is sometimes combined with breaking the ]. | Self-referential humor is sometimes combined with breaking the ]. | ||
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Self-referential humor relies on a subject making light of itself in some manner. For example, a comedy play that featured the story of a group of fictional thespians attempting to put on a comedy play would be fertile ground for self-referential humor. A more concrete example would be the Stargate SG-1 episode "Wormhole X-Treme!". Another example would be Rowan Atkinson's sketch No one called Jones, in which he plays a teacher telling students with names like "Genital", "Myprick" and "Zipper" to stop making smutty, puerile jokes. Because it can be subtle, it is often used instead of more obvious humor in places that aspire to be taken seriously.
Software is sometimes named with a humorous self-referencing or recursive acronym.
The first, and probably most popular, use was the name of the GNU (GNU's Not Unix) project. Some other famous examples are WINE, which stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator, and LAME, for LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder, and PHP, for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor.
Self-referential humor is sometimes combined with breaking the fourth wall.
See also
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