You can make people laugh by caricaturing a text or conversation through self-referential descriptions of discourse functions and relations, abstracted away from specific content…..Mark Liberman in Language Log

He references this currently viral item (which made my wife laugh until she wept) and this sketch from Chicago’s Neo-Futurists.

This TV-news template also fits into the discussion.

Commenters at Language Log pointed to this video:

Which put me in mind of Here Is the Chorus by Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer.

Plea for readers to contribute to this list in comments in order to spare the writer further research.

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