Self-referential humor

Self-referential humor

Self-referential humor relies on a subject making light of itself in some manner.

Self-referential humor is sometimes combined with breaking the fourth wall to explicitly make the reference directly to the audience, or make self-reference to an element of the medium that the characters shouldn't be aware of.

See also

* self-reference
* indirect self-reference
* in-joke
* intertextuality
* Meta-humor


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