"Which popular comedian once joked, ""When I said I wanted to be a comedian, they all laughed. Well, they are not laughing now""?"
Meta-joke jokes. The process of being a humorist is also the subject of meta-jokes; for example, on an episode of "QI", Jimmy Carr made the comment "People laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now!"—a joke previously associated with Bob Monkhouse. A limerick (poetry) referring to the anti-humor of limericks: A limerick packs jokes anatomical, Into space that is quite economical, But good ones, it seems, So seldom are clean, And the clean ones so seldom are comical. Meta-joke Meta-joke refers to several somewhat different, but related categories: "joke templates", "self-referential jokes", and jokes
They All Laughed Manhattan skyline (the credits sequence follows a trek into Manhattan, notably focusing on the twin towers of the World Trade Center as Dorothy Stratten's credit appears) and songs recorded by Frank Sinatra, including the eponymous George and Ira Gerswhin song "They All Laughed (song)". No traditional villains are seen in the film, with the only unpleasant character momentarily depicted in extremely brief appearances as an understandably frustrated husband whose wife (Stratten) cuckolds him with their next door neighbor. "The genesis of "They All Laughed" was that Benny [Gazzara] and I talked a lot about romances and affairs and the battle