"Yo mama" joke

However, these absurd statements can also follow directly after the beginning of the joke, whereby the explicit insult of the mother as fat, ugly, poor or stupid is omitted and only implicitly resonates.

Your mother jokes can also be designed as an interplay of insults that tie in with each other in dialogue and outdo each other, for example in this form: “Fuck yourself.” “I'm tired from fuckin' your wife.” “How's your mother?” “Good, she's tired from fuckin' my father.”[4]The incarnations of filial piety in various cultures are reflected by examples through history.

Rabbi Eliezer (c. 100 CE) was said[5] to have interrupted a man reading aloud the opening words of the then-banned and still-troubling Ezekiel 23.

For instance, in the movie White Men Can't Jump, characters exchange "Yo Mama" jokes.

Other movies like The Nutty Professor (1996) have featured "Yo Mama" jokes as part of the comedic interaction between characters.