Forum:What is Meta-Humor?

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“I'll burry him. I've done it before and I'll do it again. I'll Fucking Kill(TM) Meta-Humour”

~ Steve Ballmer on Meta-Humour

I know that the article on being funny & not stupid has a section on meta-humor, but I've no idea what it is. Can anyone please show me an example of such?

Sgt. Havoc 19:27, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Meta-humor is what is more commenly known as in-jokes. An example would be Euroipods... Also, let it be known that MoneySign HATES meta-humor. --~ sin($) ^tan(€) 19:33, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

But you'd have to be an old-timer here to know why... Sir Famine, Gun ♣ Petition » 00:03, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Fortunately, nobody cares that in Soviet Russia, meta humour hates Moneysign!! HATE HAET HAT! Or so Chuck Norris told Oscar Wilde once. You get the idea. -- Sir Codeine K·H·P·B·M·N·C·U·Bu. · (Harangue) 00:01, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

--DW III 10:30, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Basically what Codeine said. Fisher Price is another example of meta-humour. » Brig Sir Dawg | t | v | c » 11:34, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, In Soviet Russia, meta-humor is another example of Fisher Price!

Oh, but in Branson, Missouri, Soviet Russia joke makes YOU. --Carlb 14:42, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Don't forget: in Soviet Uncyclopedia, mind-numbing in-joke perpetuates YOU! --Señor DiZtheGreat  CUN AOTM ( Worship me!) (Praise me!) (Join me!) AMEN! 22:37, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

“George Bush hates Meta-humor.”

~ Kanye West on Meta-Humor

--Moogle.EXE 01:27, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

• As I understand it, meta-humor is NOT in-jokes (although I'm a fan of both). Meta-humor is when you write an article in the style of what the article describes - for example, Redundancy is redundant, ROT13 is in ROT13, etc. - Sikon 18:09, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

• I 'spose there is an Uncyc-specific definition (in-joke, ie humor about Uncyc) and a broad definition (humor that takes the process of satire or humor as its subject). This is not an article is meta in the broad sense, for instance. (In my opinion.) The categorizations are of course fuzzy and dependent on opinion and context (ie, not worth arguing about). You could look up Meta-joke on Wikipedia, but of course that article is a shameless parody and the truth is quite different.----OEJ 17:08, 29 July 2006 (UTC)