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'''Do not confuse this for giving the context. This is actually explaining the punchline, not the setup. That also means don't pothole this for the necessary information.'''
A [[Sub
Compare [[Lampshaded Double Entendre]] and [[Euphemism Buster]] (close cousins of Variant 3), [["Just Joking" Justification]]. Often goes with an [[Incredibly Lame Pun]], and is how such pun can lead to a [[Collective Groan]].
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* Subverted by Craig Shoemaker who will find a young person in the audience and explain the older jokes (like his Barney Fife impression) to them, making age jokes at their expense.
* ''[[Up]]'': "It's funny because the squirrel gets dead!"
* ''[[Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (Film)|Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth]]'', which is either a parody of a parody or a [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche|parody of a parody of a parody]] (depending on whether you think it's a satire of ''[[Scary Movie]]'' or just a satire of ''[[Scream (Film)|Scream]]'') has a scene similar to the one in ''[[Scream (Film)|Scream]]'' where the [[Genre Savvy]] guy actually explains to a loungeroom full of teenagers all the rules about horror movies, in which the redhead girl explains all about Parodies and how they work. [[Seltzer and Friedberg|Some people]] could learn something there.
* The first ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]'' book contains Hermione's amusing tirade, "We could all have been killed -- or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed." Where Rowling's line, buried in the middle of an angry speech, causes a humorous double-take, the equivalent line in [[The Film of the Book]], written by [[Steve Kloves]], not only emphasizes the joke in a glaringly obvious manner, but explains it as well:
{{quote| '''Hermione:''' I'm going to bed before either of you come [sic] up with another clever idea to get us killed. Or ''worse''...'''expelled!'''<br />
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* [[Real Time With Bill Maher|Bill Maher]] sometimes feigns a halfhearted explanation of a joke, if there's not enough laughter. Sometimes he still does this when there is (to more laughter).
* On one episode of ''[[Muppets Tonight]]'', there was Seymour and Pepe's attempt at telling the "Elefino" joke, which is made even funnier by [[Overly Long Gag|the diagrams and placards they use to explain it]]. The audience still doesn't get it.
* In the ''[[
{{quote| '''Doctor''': Like a car? You see? I locked it ... like a car ...}}
** There's a rare straight example in the last story of the original series, "[[Doctor Who
* A variation on ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'': the Host (who has green skin) tells everyone his name is Lorne, but he doesn't like to use it for obvious reasons.
{{quote| '''Angel''': Right, like Lorne Greene!<br />
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** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0455.html Here's another one.]
{{quote| '''Belkar:''' Get it? Because he said "Fire!" and then you used a "Fire"-ball, and now they're all dead!<br />
'''Eye of Fear and Flame:''' [[Yes
* [[Concession]]: [http://concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20071130 "See, it's funny because you're a pedophile."]
* [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=316 This] ''[[Questionable Content]]'' strip.
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* [[Punch an Pie]]: [[The Ditz|Karen]] [http://www.punchanpie.net/daily/20070606.html demonstrates].
* The ''[[Ron Planet]]'' webcomic has one: "Ron Planet Astronauting: 'Cause planets are in space!"
* In the [[
* [http://gunshowcomic.com/ Gunshow] has a whole load of comics under the [http://gunshowcomic.com/tag/that%27s+the+joke "That's the joke"] tag.
* ''[[Basic Instructions]]'' describes [http://basicinstructions.squarespace.com/storage/2010-12-14-ruinjoke.gif How to Retroactively Ruin a Joke].
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