A joke that is told while smoking weed in a circle, and thus must be kept between the circle. "What's said in the circle stays in the circle."
James: you can't expect to be on the "top 5 fighters at work" list when you have a curfew.....
Betty: Oh man that's funny ! I'm going to have to tell people at work!
James: Nahhhh nah nah that's a circle joke.
a joke about trauma or problems in someone's life as a coping mechanism for it. kinda in a dark humor type of way
person 1: *fucked up joke about an e4t1ng d1sord3r they have*
person 2: bro wtf
person 1: don't worry it was just a cope joke
When someone else kills the joke by getting serious, and having to explain why its not funny, and how serious it is instead.
A joke so mindfuckingly hilarious that it turns you insane or gay, depending on your personality type.
Charlie Sheen: "That Dave Chapelle asylum joke was so funny, that I literally went insane and started rubbing testosterone cream all over my balls!"
Durham jokes are usually not very funny, sometimes they are stupid enough that you can laugh at the person saying them
"PeePeePooPoo YAIY YAIY YAIY YAI!!" is an example of a Durham Joke
The line between being in on the joke and being part of the joke.
Tom was laughing at the joke until he crossed the joke line and realized he was the butt of the joke.