Meaning of fourth-wall joke | Babel Free

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Guess I really like fourth-wall jokes.”

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