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A sentence or story that subverts the expectation of a joke, often by being deliberately unfunny or surreal..
Thank Christ for Carlton. My secret. My lifeline. The inventor of the antijoke. I kid you not. He postulated a category of things that don't make you laugh which he called the antijoke.
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Antijoke means A sentence or story that subverts the expectation of a joke, often by being deliberately unfunny or surreal..
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Thank Christ for Carlton. My secret. My lifeline. The inventor of the antijoke. I kid you not. He postulated a category of things that don't make you laugh which he called the antijoke.
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