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ethnic joke - a joke at the expense of some ethnic group

gag, jape, jest, joke, laugh - a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"

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He employs an old Vietnamese method to alleviate a colleague's headache, and next week, his ethnic jokes alienate his fellow tribe members.

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DON'T tell off-color, sexual or ethnic jokes at work.

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She's currently famous for 1), telling an ethnic joke on ``Late Night With Conan O'Brien,'' which became controversial when an Asian spokesman, Guy Aoki, attacked her; and 2) her scene-stealing appearance in the ribald documentary ``The Aristocrats,'' in which she transformed the film's theme - a joke about a scabrous show-biz family - into a hilarious anecdote about her messy encounter with a cheesy New York cable-TV host named Joe Franklin.

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