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[[File:texplainthejoke.jpg|link=Batman|~~right~~|It seems jokes are something The Joker doesn't like to kill. [[Hypocritical Humor|Get it? It's because he's a criminal with a comedy theme!]] ]]

[[File:texplainthejoke.jpg|link=Batman|frame|It seems jokes are something The Joker doesn't like to kill. [[Hypocritical Humor|Get it? It's because he's a criminal with a comedy theme!]] ]]

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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 Trope]] of [[Measuring the Marigolds]].

A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Measuring the Marigolds]].

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.

* ''[[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!'''

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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 ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]'' [[Christmas Episode]] "The End Of Time", the Doctor locks the TARDIS by pointing the key at it, at which point it chirps, and the light on top flashes. He then rather desperately tries to explain to Ood Sigma ([[The Comically Serious]]) why this is funny.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Christmas Episode]] "The End Of Time", the Doctor locks the TARDIS by pointing the key at it, at which point it chirps, and the light on top flashes. He then rather desperately tries to explain to Ood Sigma ([[The Comically Serious]]) why this is funny.

{{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 ~~(TV)~~/Recap/S26 E4 Survival|Survival]]", where a shopkeeper fails to understand the joke his friend is telling him, about two friends confronted by a lion, and the Doctor explains "He doesn't have to outrun the lion, only his friend. Then the lion will catch his friend and eat him."

** There's a rare straight example in the last story of the original series, "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S26 E4 Survival|Survival]]", where a shopkeeper fails to understand the joke his friend is telling him, about two friends confronted by a lion, and the Doctor explains "He doesn't have to outrun the lion, only his friend. Then the lion will catch his friend and eat him."

* 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!

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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!

'''Eye of Fear and Flame:''' [[Yes Man|Yes, sir. Very funny, sir.]] Please don't hurt me. }}

'''Eye of Fear and Flame:''' [[Yes-Man|Yes, sir. Very funny, sir.]] Please don't hurt me. }}

* [[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 [[~~Pv P~~]] arc when Robbie starts his own brewery, one of the first buildings they look at is an incredibly bad choice - so much so, that Max quote's Harold Ramis' line from [[Ghostbusters]] about the firehouse more or less verbatim. Then, hearing him, Robbie barges in talking about how great the building is, and namedrops the movie, just to be sure that the dozen readers outside the actual target market get the joke.

* In the [[PvP]] arc when Robbie starts his own brewery, one of the first buildings they look at is an incredibly bad choice - so much so, that Max quote's Harold Ramis' line from [[Ghostbusters]] about the firehouse more or less verbatim. Then, hearing him, Robbie barges in talking about how great the building is, and namedrops the movie, just to be sure that the dozen readers outside the actual target market get the joke.

* [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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