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** Cats, too. There's a reason why [[Cats Are Snarkers]] in media.
*** It helps a lot that cats have such humanlike faces that people subconsciously ''think'' cats can [[Cheshire Cat Grin|smile]], heightening the disconnect.
* In response to a glaring mistake on [[Star Wars|StarWars.com]]'s Encyclopedia, [[The Wiki Rule|Wookieepedia]], [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|priding itself on being a source for anything and everything in ''Star Wars'' canon]], created [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kamino_(unit) this article]{{Dead link}}. As of now, "Kamino" being a unit describing the constant height of clone troopers is technically canonical. An administrator archived this and altered the template for denoting that something was mentioned in the Encyclopedia (allowing the archival link) to facilitate the article. Brief, jocular consideration was given to creating an article on 1.87 meters ''the planet'', but it was decided that that would have been ridiculous. Even after this is inevitably (read: eventually) rectified, a snippet on the error shall appear in the [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jesse clone trooper's article].
* Most satirists tend be this way. They would say something that would be really outrageous and silly while keeping a straight face about it.
* [[Roger Ebert]] always finds this style of comedy better than [[Adam Sandler]] style clowning. See the middle of his [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990711/REVIEWS08/907110301/1023 Great Movie review] of ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]'', talking about funny hats not being funny, but not ''knowing'' your hat is funny ''is'' funny.
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