History Main / HypocriticalHumor

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* In the sitcom ''Charlotte and Lillian'' about an elderly lady and her volunteer visitor, Season 3 Episode 1 has Lillian going on about how a personality test shows she's really empathetic and in tune with what other people want, entirely oblivious to Charlotte asking her to use a coaster, or at least not put her cup down on Charlotte's book. In the same conversation, Charlotte accusaes Lillian of being a narcissit who doesn't really want to help people, just to ''be seen'' as someone who helps people, and Lillian retorts "I'm, like, super modest. I just want to change people's lives!"

* In the sitcom ''Charlotte and Lillian'' about an elderly lady and her volunteer visitor, Season 3 Episode 1 has Lillian going on about how a personality test shows she's really empathetic and in tune with what other people want, entirely oblivious to Charlotte asking her to use a coaster, or at least not put her cup down on Charlotte's book.

* In the sitcom ''Charlotte and Lillian'' about an elderly lady and a volunteer visitor, Season 3 Episode 1 has Lillian going on about how a personality test shows she's really empathetic and in tune with what other people want, entirely oblivious to Charlotte asking her to use a coaster, or at least not put her cup down on Charlotte's book.

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!!Example Subpages:

* [[HypocriticalHumor/AnimatedFilms Film — Animation]]
* [[HypocriticalHumor/LiveActionFilms Film — Live-Action]]

!!Other Examples:

* [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18680_political-cartoons-lowest-form-communication.html This]] Website/{{Cracked}}.com illustrates its subject by the way of SelfDemonstratingArticle parody. The hilariously {{anvilicious}} cartoons treating the viewers as morons, "[[InternetColdReader mind reading]]" and spelling out the assumed strawman points and [[ExpoLabel label everything]]. So it shows examples of these, then treats the readers as morons, guessing and spelling out the assumed points reduced to strawmanship and {{anvilicious}}ly comments on what's where and who's what in each case ''[[UpToEleven even more]]''. The point of the article, obviously, ends up perfectly illustrated. By the way, [[RecursiveReality the entry you just read was]] an ExpoLabel...

* During his 2018 reelection campaign, Sen. Ted Cruz aired [https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/7/17091094/beto-orourke-full-name-ted-cruz-controversy ads attacking] his Democratic opponent, Rep. Beto O'Rourke, for pandering to Hispanic voters by using the name Beto instead of his actual given name, Robert. Cruz, whose actual given name is Rafael, later backtracked saying the ad was meant in jest.

* UsefulNotes/BarackObama during his spiel at the 2013 White House Correspondents Dinner: "One senator who has reached across the aisle recently is Marco Rubio, but I don’t know about (running for President in) 2016. I mean, the guy has not even finished a single term in the Senate and he thinks he’s ready to be President. (''laughter'') Kids these days."[[note]]Obama was first elected to the Senate in 2004, then was elected President in 2008. Senate terms are six years.[[/note]]

* Bob openly makes some kind of statement or declaration only to then [[{{Hypocrite}} do the exact opposite.]]

* Bob openly makes some kind of statement or declaration and then [[{{Hypocrite}} does the exact opposite.]]

* ''The Warergate Comedy Hour'' was a 1973 comedy album starring the likes of Jack Burns, Avery Schreiber and Fannie Flagg. The lead cut takes the form of a late night show a la Johnny Carson with then-president Richard Nixon as the star:

* Bob is accused of engaging in a certain behavior or activity, denies it, and then [[DescriptionCut immediately does that behavior or activity]].

* In ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry'' General Assistance Department along with Mr. Crawley are planning on giving a petition about the poor quality of Ministry's bathrooms, and Mr. Crawley says that they have to stand up to [[BadBoss Sir Gregory]]. After talking with him about it:

* After the Decemberist coup attempt in Russia in 1825, one of the judges over the rebels was Pavel Golenishchev-Kutuzov, a man who participated in the assassination of Paul II in 1801. So the tradition goes yhat during the trial, he spat out "How could you consider something as terrible as a regicide". One of the accused answered "Well, that wouldn't be the first time, some people got sashes and badges out of it".

Compare with ImmediateSelfContradiction, BoomerangBigot, TemptingFate, IResembleThatRemark, IWouldSayIfICouldSay, SuchAPhony, and DescriptionCut.

Please do not attempt to add examples of people doing this unintentionally (nearly all RealLife examples would fall under that). This trope refers to ''deliberate'' uses of hypocrisy for humor's sake, at least by the writer. The same goes for {{Wick}}s and {{Pot Hole}}s, so if you catch any, feel free to destroy them without pity.

* [[HypocriticalHumor/AnimatedFilms Films — Animation]]
* [[HypocriticalHumor/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]

-->''This next round is all about cutting costs. There's nothing that gets my goat more than the senseless waste of licence fee income. Which is why I've instructed the BBC to stop putting chilled champagne in my dressing room. There's no point going to the expense of chilling it if it's only going in the bath.''