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* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' frequently takes shots at its own writers. In addition to all the examples listed on [[Who Writes This Crap?]], there are the lyrics for the theme song to the ''[[Wonderful Life]]'' Christmas special: "Our writers aren't gifted!/ [[Stock Parodies|The story has been lifted]]..."
* ''[[Animaniacs]]'' is fond of this, and have one in the opening credits:
{{quote|''The writers flipped, we have no script''
''Why bother to rehearse?
** The debut episode of ''[[Freakazoid!]]'' has a similar zinger as they do a theme for the show using the ''Animaniacs'' melody:
{{quote|''It's Freakazoid and friends''
''It's what your dentist recommends''
''To patients who chew gum''
''This show is really dumb''
''It's Freakazoid and friends
:* Also, in the episode "Video Review", the siblings fight off an angry dinosaur by pelting it with "bombs", as in, VHR tapes of ''[[Heaven's Gate (film)|Heaven's Gate]]'', ''[[Leonard Part 6]]'', ''[[Howard the Duck (film)|Howard the Duck]]'', and ''[[1941]]''; the last one was a film directed by [[Steven Spielberg]], who also produced ''Animaniacs''.
* ''[[Family Guy]]''
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* [[Woody Allen]] uses this throughout his work, most often against himself but occasionally against Jews or New Yorkers generally. For instance, from ''[[Annie Hall]]'':
{{quote|'''Alvy:''' Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I ''live'' here. }}
* [[Jon Stewart]] is a big fan of this. Like other Jewish comedians, he makes fun of his "Jewish-ness" as well as making fun of his, uh, lacking in height, his piriform physique, his home state of New Jersey, and the fact that he hasn't been in very successful movies and these jokes carry over to ''[[The Daily Show]]''. Even ''The Daily Show'' itself is a victim as one of the longest [[Running Gag]]s in the program was for a guest to mention how they've seen ''The Daily Show'' and for Jon Stewart to say that he himself doesn't care for it.
{{quote|'''Stewart:''' I don't watch it, myself. I find it crass. }}
* [[Rodney Dangerfield]]'s the patron saint of this trope for a reason. His act was made up of self-directed [[Take That]]s. It annoyed his wife to realize that people thought he really was the slob he portrays in his act.
* Irish humour, when it's not about drinking, fighting, or religious conflict; is all about the Irish predilection for drinking, fighting, and religious conflict.
* [[Jay Leno]] routinely makes jokes about the badness of his jokes. These are often among his funnier jokes.
* This is cartoonist [[Robert Crumb]]'s favorite subject.
* Nearly all of ''[[Last Comic Standing]]''{{'}}s Jay London's act was doing this. He would frequently say, "It's almost over," as if the audience was suffering through his routine.
* No episode of ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' goes without it. Usually he's joking about his hair and/or awkward body.
* In Conan O'Brien's opening song when Conan hosted the Primetime Emmys (a parody of "Trouble" from ''[[The Music Man]]''), one of his examples of NBC's [[Biting the Hand Humor|decline in quality]] was that the Emmys were opening with a song-and-dance number "performed by a host with ''limited musical ability!''" (The chorus then shouted, "He can't sing!")
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* [[The Marx Brothers|Groucho Marx]] famously stated, "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."
* Bnet.com's Geoffrey James gives us [http://www.bnet.com/blog/salesmachine/the-10-worst-business-books-of-all-time/11814 The 10 Worst Business Books of All Time]. The #5 entry, ''Success Secrets from Silicon Valley'' [[Old Shame|was written by James himself in 1998]].
* [[Will Rogers]]' frequently quoted line, "I'm not a member of an organized political party. I'm a Democrat."
* [[Hugh Laurie]] once mentioned that the reason he keeps acting is because he hates himself and doesn't believe he deserves to be happy.
* A big part of Icelandic humor, common factors include bad driving habits, cutting in lines, extremely frequent bodily noises and an Icelandic tourist attempting to speak English but constantly peppering his language with Icelandic-exclusive idioms (Venus pronounced as "weenis" and riding on horseback replaced by "fucking".)
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** [[Blizzard Entertainment]]. It seems that successful game companies that can afford to push back release dates for the sake of quality have come to use Soon™ as a way of mocking both themselves ''and'' their fans.
** Used by CRS, creators of [[World War II Online]] to the point where it has become a [[Memetic Mutation]].
* [[Ben Affleck]]:
** When he hosted ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', joked that he would be endorsing John McCain in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election because every candidate he ever supported lost.
** When promoting the film ''[[Gigli]]'', which by that point, was infamous as one of the biggest flops of the decade, he went on ''The Tonight Show'' and read his "favorite" parts of the movie reviews, namely, the most scathing and brutal quips from film reviewers about how bad the movie and Affleck himself were.
** Affleck's late-'90s ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' appearance was full of this, with Mango calling him "Ben ''Who''fleck?", and [[Gwyneth Paltrow]] showing up because she thought he would need help with the opening monologue.
** During the commentary for ''[[Mallrats]]'' where he describes himself as desperate and suicidal during the production of the movie, coming home at night with a bag of sleeping pills and preparing to just end it all. It's funnier than it sounds.
* Reportedly, [[Matt Damon]] thought the "Mmmmatt... DAMON!" caricature of himself in ''[[Team America: World Police]]'' was hilarious.
* The British channel E4 is mostly composed of British soap operas, American drama and comedy, and reality shows. Its advertising mocks the melodrama of British soaps and American drama, the ridiculousness of American comedy, the stupidity of reality TV and itself for broadcasting them.
* Finnish humor:
** Highlights the national stereotypes of stubbornness, drunkenness and quietness. For example, two men went camping for a week with several bottles of vodka. The last day one of them raised a glass and said: "Cheers!" The other angrily responded: "Did we come here to drink or talk?"
** There's a whole category of jokes starting "A Swede, a Norwegian and a Finn..." that tend to paint the Finn as hardy, if a bit thick in the head. A pair of illustrative examples:
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** "My uncle once dropped ten pence; he bent over to pick it up, and it hit him in the back of the head."
** "You may have heard that nasty rumour floating around that copper wire was invented by two Scotsmen fighting over a penny."
** One time, Connolly was on Conan O'Brien explaining that he once bungee
* [[Kevin Smith]] describes his wife as a man-hating feminist, "which explains why she married the guy with the tiniest dick on the planet."
* Brian Regan uses this in a lot of his comedy acts as well, usually to make him look stupid. The best example is his skit "Stupid in School"
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