Caption Humor: Difference between revisions

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* ''[[The Spoony Experiment]]'' uses these a lot.

* Often used on Flickr, especially with photos of museum displays where the real exhibit caption can't be seen. One example had a human standing next to a rocket for scale and the caption was: "You should never stand this close to a rocket. Unless you are demonstrating how cool it is."

* In ''[[The Onion]]'' AV Club, they used to do a humorous caption for a pic from one of the movies being reviewed that week, but they haven't done it in years.

* The "Spanish Inqusition" sketch in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' has the caption "DIABOLICAL LAUGHTER" followed with "DIABOLICAL ACTING".

** And the "Architects" sketch, in which the caption "SATIRE" starts flashing over a very obvious piece of satire.

* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' had funny scientific names for the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.

* There was a very similar thing in the opening of ''[[The Day Today]]'': Chris Morris would read out an ostensible headline and then a piece of genuine news footage would play to humourous effect.

* Running rampant on the Internet, particularly [[Image Board|Imageboards]] and [[Deviant ART]], are [[Motivational Poster|De/Motivators]], which are designed in the vein of typical office motivational posters.

* ''[[Chopping Block]]'' pages consist entirely of an usually silent picture and a caption.

* ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'' would have amusing sarcastic captions show up every now and again. Caricatures of the guests would serve the same purpose. Note: these were all done live.

* ''[[Burn Notice]]'' initially used captions to identify people that Michael was dealing with, but they have started to become more comical, such as repeating an earlier assessment of a character, identifying them as "Arrogant Jerk" or something similar.

* A scene in ''[[Thank You for Smoking]]'' has a terribly funny derogatory caption when the boss says the word "environmentalist".

* Used in recent ''[[X-Men]]'' comics, providing a brief, usually humorous bio of any character who shows up, including these two, which popped up during a [[Fastball Special]].

'''[[Wolverine]]:''' Claws and healing factor. Currently moving at 220 miles per hour. }}

* Much of the humor of "The Word" segments on ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' arises from the captions at the side of the screen, clarifying or elaborating upon what Stephen says aloud.

* In the [[DVD Bonus Content]] for [[Daybreakers]], there's a behind the scenes look at shooting a particular scene, with "Drunken Idiot Ruining Take" following, well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a drunken idiot running in the background ruining the take]].

* The Blurb versions of [[Happy Tree Friends]] episodes.

 

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