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The performance felt both virtuosic and repulsive, a goulash of hype, sloganeering, and calls to violence spiked with in-jokes, shaggy-dog anecdotes, and populist fables, all of it seductive and—in our dangerous era—familiar.
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Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
The Nineties were madly in love with Elvis, to the point where the Naked Gun movies could get laughs by casting 1960s Broadway star Robert Goulet as Priscilla Presley’s love interest — an in-joke for fans who knew that her husband hated Goulet and would shoot out TVs at the sight of his face.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2026
An episode about a baseball-game rivalry between Ice Cove and its nemesis town that’s packed with Indigenous in-jokes suggests that North of North could have Parks and Recreation–style legs, too, if Netflix were to go ahead and renew it already.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
These communities can develop strong emotional investment, sometimes bordering on obsession, and shape online culture through in-jokes and rapid-fire discourse.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
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Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
The Nineties were madly in love with Elvis, to the point where the Naked Gun movies could get laughs by casting 1960s Broadway star Robert Goulet as Priscilla Presley’s love interest — an in-joke for fans who knew that her husband hated Goulet and would shoot out TVs at the sight of his face.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2026
An episode about a baseball-game rivalry between Ice Cove and its nemesis town that’s packed with Indigenous in-jokes suggests that North of North could have Parks and Recreation–style legs, too, if Netflix were to go ahead and renew it already.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
These communities can develop strong emotional investment, sometimes bordering on obsession, and shape online culture through in-jokes and rapid-fire discourse.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for in-joke
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“In-joke.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in-joke. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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