Professional joke

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The professional joke is a type of tendentious joke that assigns specific, potentially comical characteristics or clichéd behavior to members of certain professional groups . Typical professional jokes often arise self-deprecatingly in the context of precisely these professions.

definition

Professional jokes suggest "that something striking, comical, unusual can be found in people in the relevant profession and that this actual or supposed characteristic can easily be exaggerated in order to then make it the object of laughter."

Examples of professional jokes are doctor jokes (with the subtopic psychiatrist jokes), official jokes, lawyer jokes, teacher jokes, mathematician jokes, musician jokes (e.g. viola jokes ), pastor and priest jokes , politician jokes , soldier jokes and many more, with most professional jokes self-deprecating "from the inside “These professions themselves come from. This is then explained with the special “professional humor” caused by the work environment or the work conditions - for example “medical humor”, “legal humor” etc. - or, on the other hand, with prejudices if the joke comes “from outside”.

A special form of professional joke is the scientific joke , the punch line of which, as an insider joke, is often only accessible to direct members of the respective scientific discipline and is little or not funny for people outside the field.

Depending on the topic, professional jokes overlap with other types of humor, such as black humor , absurd humor , religion-specific humor , etc.

Three examples

  • Psychologist joke - A man receives a referral to a psychologist because of contact difficulties. The psychologist opens the patient interview: “To start our session - can you explain to me what your difficulties are in establishing permanent contact with other people?” The man: “Why me? That's your job, you incompetent moron! "
  • Physicist joke - A poultry farmer is concerned because his chickens have stopped laying eggs. Since he cannot solve the problem, one of his friends, a physicist, offers him help. The physicist comes to the farm, takes a lot of measurements with complicated equipment, and then analyzes the data. After a few days he calls his friend, the poultry farmer. "Okay, I have a solution to your problem, but it only works with spherical chickens in a vacuum."
This joke makes fun of both the incompetence of the farmer, who cannot solve a problem from his own professional area, as well as the physicist, who works out a theoretical solution in a complex way that has no practical application.
  • Priesterwitz / Rabbinerwitz - A Catholic priest and a rabbi are talking. Catholic priest: “I dreamed of Jewish heaven last night. It was awful! Everyone was loud and talked, it was filthy and smelled of garlic. "The rabbi:" A coincidence! I dreamed of Catholic heaven last night. Huge, everything in gold and white - and no one there. "
An example of Jewish humor , too , where when the two religions meet, the rabbi responds at the expense of the priest.

The term in other languages

Kurt Tucholsky stated that the French language also has its professional jokes, especially medical jokes, which in French are generally called blagues sur les professions and specifically blagues sur les médecins or humor médecin .

In English, professional jokes are referred to as professional jokes and professional humor as professional humor .

reception

  • There are collections of specific professional jokes in book form.
  • Since the 1920s, which was the calendar of Temmler Temmler's Aerztebrevier - - with from today's perspective "politically not quite correct" medical jokes a popular giveaway.
  • In the United States, there have been calls from lawyers to ban particularly cynical, denigrating lawyer jokes .

Individual evidence and declarations

  1. ↑ Yasunari Ueda: Text type joke and caricature as material for language learning: Linguistic approaches to philosophizing with children . LIT Verlag Münster, 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-12172-1 , p. 37 ff.
  2. ↑ Eberhard Heizmann: The best doctor jokes . Terra Publishing House, 1958.
  3. ↑ Uwe Henrik Peters and Johanne Peters: Irre and Psychiatrist: Structure u. Sociology d. Insane u. Psychiatrist joke . Kindler, 1974, ISBN 978-3-463-18132-5 .
  4. ↑ Waltraud Pröve: The best official jokes , Falkenverlag (1981), ISBN 3-8068-0574-1 .
  5. ↑ Erich Müller: Juristenwitz , Englisch Verlag GmbH (1987), ISBN 9783881401166 .
  6. ↑ Friedhelm Strebesam: student jokes, teacher jokes . Herbig, 1977.
  7. ^ Bernhard Kutzler: Mathematician jokes & math jokes: how mathematicians are laughed at and what mathematicians laugh about . Bk-Teachware, 2010, ISBN 978-3-901769-61-0 .
  8. ↑ Monika Heumann and Hans-Günter Heumann: The great book of musicians jokes . Schott, 2005, ISBN 978-3-7957-0510-7 .
  9. ↑ Askan Schmitt: The knot: unfashionable überitzblatt . Wolff, 1902, p. 66.
  10. ↑ Gerhard Birk : God and the world: stories for contemporary history . Pro Business, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86386-291-6 , p. 78 ff.
  11. ↑ Lena Embeck: The best politician jokes in the world: Not only Germany laughs about that . neobooks Self-Publishing, March 24, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8476-3314-3 .
  12. ↑ On orders, Sergeant !: Soldier jokes from war and the like. Peace . Bergmann, 1940.
  13. ↑ Joachim Moras and Hans Paeschke: Merkur: German magazine for European thinking . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1982, p. 698.
  14. ↑ Lětopis Instituta za serbski ludospyt: Annual journal of the Institute for Sorbian Folk Research. Ludoweda. Folklore]. . Domowina, 1958, p. 207.
  15. ↑ Eike Christian Hirsch: The joke conductor or the school of laughter . CH Beck, 2001, ISBN 978-3-406-47560-3 , pp. 97, 102 and 201.
  16. ↑ Clarisse Loughrey: The best nerdy jokes from The Big Bang Theory, in celebration of its 200th episode , Independent, February 25, 2016; accessed on August 29, 2017.
  17. ↑ But it also works the other way around: The rabbi is a passionate golfer. Unfortunately, it rains the whole week, so that he cannot pursue his hobby. But then finally, on the Sabbath, the weather is fine. But on this day he is not allowed to play golf. He struggles with himself, in the end sunshine and green lawn be too attractive. He disguises himself, but a friend of his Catholic priest recognizes him anyway. He calls on God: "Oh, Lord! How can you allow a rabbi to play golf on the Sabbath !? Punish him!" At this moment the rabbi succeeds in a hole-in-one , on the second green as well, and also on the third. The pastor is horrified: "Dear God, you call that punishment !?" And God says: "Sure, because who should he tell about it now?".
  18. ↑ Kurt Tucholsky: Collected Works: 1925-1928 . Rowohlt,, p. 194.
  19. ^ Clifford Sawhney: World's Best Professional Jokes . Pustak Mahal, April 12, 2004, ISBN 978-81-223-0871-6 .
  20. ↑ Lloyd Duhaime: Lawyer Jokes - The Abuse Must End , February 22, 2014, accessed August 30, 2017.