Self-Referential Humor

""Ever notice how the more successful observational comics become, the more their jokes focus on flying and hotels?""

- Randall Munroe, Xkcd #785

Super-Trope index of all tropes having to do with referencing the nature of one's own medium, style and the almighty fourth wall to make a laugh or two.

Insert joke about the Fourth Wall of the wiki here while I go about linking to tropes that don't exist, and adding examples to the Self-Demonstrating Article list.

Tropes Involved:
 * Affectionate Parody
 * Aside Glance
 * Camp (occasionally)
 * Deconstruction
 * Deconstructed Trope
 * Deconstructor Fleet
 * "How I Wrote This Article" Article
 * Hypocritical Humor
 * Hypocrisy Nod
 * Lampshade Hanging
 * Left It In
 * Medium Awareness
 * No Fourth Wall
 * Some regions of the Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness
 * Playing With a Trope
 * Rage Against the Author
 * Satire, Parody, Pastiche (and a little bit of all three)
 * Self-Deprecation
 * Spoof Aesop
 * Subverted Trope (usually)

"The fourth wall here is broken so much, we're now owned by Home Depot!"