fourth-wall joke

plural fourth-wall jokes

1. alternativeAlternative form of fourth wall joke.

   Guess I really like fourth-wall jokes.

   2017, T. H. Cooney, “Adolescent Humour”, in Beyond the Box: Tom’s Top Movie Peeves, Lulu.com, →ISBN

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   It was cool to be able to do kind of fourth-wall jokes, where we’re treating the characters as if maybe they’re not just characters.

   2005 September 27, Eric Winkler, quoting Mike Henry, “‘Untold’ heights: ‘Family Guy’ takes unrated movie straight to DVD”, in The Kansas City Star, 126th year, number 10, page E3

   One of the great things about 22 Jump Street, which does for sequels what the previous film did for big-screen TV adaptations, is that it incorporates all its fourth-wall jokes and references into an actual plot.

   2014 June 13, Rene Rodriguez, “Funny thing, the sequel’s pretty good”, in Miami Herald, page 10G

   Brooks’ formula includes a tight script, likable characters, Borscht Belt humor, vaudevillian song and dance numbers, deliberately Brechtian fourth-wall jokes, intertextual references to other films and personalities, provocative innuendo, and colorful language, creating films that are outré yet have wide audience appeal.

   2016, Jack Curtis Dubowsky, “Blazing Saddles: Music and Meaning in ‘The French Mistake’”, in Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness (K.J. Donnelly, editor, Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture, →ISSN), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, part III (Queering of Genre), page 209