KnowraSelf-deprecationLinked fromLinked fromThe 9 pages that link to Self-deprecation, each with the reason it gives.All 9Related 8Compared with 1Comic personaRelated: A persona built around apparent personal flaws can make self-directed jokes its signature.American humorRelated: Stand-up performers often use self-mockery to establish intimacy and disarm audiences.Jack BennyRelated: Benny made vanity, age, and miserliness the repeated weaknesses of his fictional self.Phyllis DillerRelated: Diller turned jokes about her looks, marriage, and domestic life into a signature technique.Rodney DangerfieldRelated: Dangerfield made his own lack of status the recurring target of his jokes.Chelsea HandlerRelated: Handler’s comic storytelling often makes her own habits and experiences part of the punchline.Tig NotaroRelated: Notaro often uses her own circumstances as material without reducing the set to self-mockery.Jerome K. JeromeRelated: The narrator’s confessed incompetence makes Jerome’s comic failures feel companionable rather than grand.