Professional humour - Definition and Overview

Both outside and within a profession such as law there are jokes which serve to poke fun at the absurdities of the profession. Such humor is called professional humor. Jokes tend to exploit popular stereotypes about the profession in question: lawyer jokes might present them as lacking in ethics, scientist jokes might play up their lack of worldly wisdom and accountancy jokes might address "creative accounting". A speaker at a professional seminar will often break the ice with a bit of professonal humor.

Professional humor must be distinguished from "in-jokes", those which can only be appreciated only a member of a specific profession.

External links and References

• Profession jokes, http://www.workjoke.com/projoke.htm. A large collection of jokes about professions: programmers, mathematicians, physicists, engineers, doctors, lawyers, accountants, psychiatrists etc.