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'''Professional Humor''' Both outside and within a [[profession]] such as [[law]] there are


[[humor|jokes]] which serve to poke fun at the absurdities of the profession
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and relieve tension. Jokes about. Such humor is called [[professional humor]]. Jokes tend to exploit popular stereotypes about the profession in question: lawyer jokes might present them as lacking in ethics, scientist jokes might play up their lack of worldly wisdom  and [[accountancy]] tend tojokes might address "creative


accounting". A speaker at a professional seminar will often break the ice


with a bit of professonal humor.
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Professional humor must be distinguished from "in-jokes", those which can only be appreciated only a member of a specific profession.⏎

==External links and References==
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* ''Profession jokes'',  http://www.workjoke.com/projoke.htm. A large collection of jokes about professions: programmers, mathematicians, physicists, engineers, doctors, lawyers, accountants, psychiatrists etc.