antijoke

• anti-joke

anti- +‎ joke

antijoke (plural antijokes)

1. A sentence or story that subverts the expectation of a joke, often by being deliberately unfunny or surreal.

   Coordinate term: antiproverb

   • 1999, Eric Idle, The Road to Mars, Knopf Doubleday, →ISBN, page 31:

     Thank Christ for Carlton. My secret. My lifeline. The inventor of the antijoke. I kid you not. He postulated a category of things that don't make you laugh which he called the antijoke.

• anticomedy