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Both outside and within a [[profession]] such as [[law]] there are
[[humor|jokes]]s which serve to poke fun at the absurdpeculiarities of the profession. Such [[humor]] is called [['''professional humor]]'''. Jokes tend to exploit popular stereotypes about the profession in question: [[lawyer joke]]s might present them as lacking in ethics, scientist jokes might play up their lack of worldly wisdom  and [[accountancy]] jokes might address "creative⏎
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  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-joke]]s, those which can only be appreciated only a member of a specific profession.

See also: [[Mathematical joke]]s.⏎
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==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.⏎
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