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Re:Wikiid: Can Wikipedia make a Wikipedia page notable enoug... by unalone on Monday March 16, 2009 @03:07PM (#518595)
True, false classification. (Metahumor would be humor about humor.)

Well, it's a wiki page, so anybody can edit it and fix stuff like that.

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Re:Wikiid: Can Wikipedia make a Wikipedia page notable enoug... by donaq on Monday March 16, 2009 @10:20PM (#519256)
Well, according to wikipedia, in which metahumor redirects to meta-joke:

Meta-joke refers to three somewhat different, but related categories: "self-referential jokes", "jokes about jokes" (see meta-) also known as metahumor, and "joke templates".

Recursive humor would be a subclass of self-referential jokes, going by the definition for self-referential jokes as given by (what else?) Wikipedia.

This kind of meta-joke is a joke in which the joke itself, or rather a familiar class of jokes, is part of the joke.

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