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 == The Term ""Dick Joke"" Used Figuratively == 
 In private conversations among professional comedians, I've heard the term ""dick joke"" get used to refer to any facile dumb humor that gets dropped in, as dumb *as if* it were literally just dick jokes.  Example: In the middle of a conversation with a good and sustained level of humor, someone drops in some just distractingly stupid joke, and then being told ""dammit!, why do you always have to go right to the dick joke!?"" (when the joke in question wasn't an actual dick joke at all, just dumb and vulgar). Or: ""(some name) is a HACK He goes up and does eight minutes of dick jokes and he calls that a set!"" (...where that might not involve *any* actual dick jokes, but humor about no smarter than a bunch of dick jokes.)  Ironically, this entry's example of a dick joke ""A professor gives his psychology class a spot quiz..."" wouldn't count as a dick joke in the sense I'm talking about too much setup, and not broad enough... at all.  Also, about as funny as a glacier.  Anyway, for my sense of ""dick joke"", I have no citation whatsoever it has come up repeatedly in conversation as a term of jargon, but I'm not putting it in this entry, because, like I say, no citation.  But, folks, keep listening, because maybe the sense I'm talking about will show up in some comedian's podcast or something. (I would say ""keep an ear cocked!"", but please, I have some self-respect! Oh, wait, no, there it went.) —  "