![]() But it might also be considered an inside joke if not many people outside of her immediate family knows about her love for cats. This could be considered a running joke because we've been calling her the crazy cat lady for several years now. We may adore and respect Henrietta, but, because she has taken in four cats, perhaps we still like to joke around and call her a "crazy cat lady." Maybe, every year during the holidays, we ask, "Is the crazy cat lady coming over, too?" Maybe three first three cats have all died and she only has one cat now, but we still call her the "crazy cat lady" because that's the running joke. It started with one cat in 2002, then she found two more two years later, and five years after that she took in a fourth kitten. ![]() The two are not the same thing, but there can be overlap, in that an inside joke can also become a running joke when it recurs over a long span of time.įor example, let's say we had an aunt named Henrietta who liked to take care of stray cats. ![]() The difference between a joke and an inside joke is that inside jokes are only funny to people who have certain background information that allows them to understand (and therefore be amused by) the joke. In fact, people often find them funny largely because they remember the last time people referred to the joke. They aren't simply told once and everyone moves on. The difference between a joke and a running joke is that running jokes occur over a span of time – sometimes for days or weeks, sometimes for months or years. ![]()
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