Self-Referential Humor

"Ever notice how the more successful observational comics become, the more their jokes focus on flying and hotels?" —Randall Munroe, Xkcd #785

Super-Trope index of all tropes having to do with referencing the nature of one's own medium, style and the almighty fourth wall to make a laugh or two.

Insert joke about the Fourth Wall of the wiki here while I go about linking to tropes that don't exist, and adding examples to the Self-Demonstrating Article list.

Tropes Involved:

• Affectionate Parody
• Aside Glance
• Camp (occasionally)
• Deconstruction
• Deconstructed Trope
• Deconstructor Fleet
• "How I Wrote This Article" Article
• Hypocritical Humor
• Hypocrisy Nod
• Lampshade Hanging
• Left It In
• Medium Awareness
• No Fourth Wall
  • Some regions of the Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness
• Playing with a Trope
• Rage Against the Author
• Satire, Parody, Pastiche (and a little bit of all three)
• Self-Deprecation
• Spoof Aesop
• Subverted Trope (usually)

The fourth wall here is broken so much, we're now owned by Home Depot!