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Tongue-in-cheek is a term that refers to a style of humour in which things are said only half seriously, or in a subtly mocking way.
Origin of the term The term first appeared in print in the book The Ingoldsby Legends by Richard Harris Barham, published in 1845. The author uses the term describing a Frenchman:
Tongue-in-cheek humour in fiction Tongue-in-cheek humour in fiction often takes the form of gentle parodies. Such stories seem to abide by the conventions of an established serious genre, while in reality, they gently poke fun at some aspects of that genre. A tongue-in-cheek work still relies on these conventions and is not the same as a farce. Good examples of films that are made in a tongue-in-cheek way are Scream, Demolition Man, or True Lies. Note that these films are still faithful to their genre (horror, action and spy respectively) and are not out-and-out parodies such as Airplane!. | ||||||||
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