History Main / PovertyForComedy

* Throughout the Music/KanyeWest album ''Late Registration'' are skits following a fraternity called "Broke Phi Broke", where the members take a bizarre pride in having no material possessions or money in general, a satirization of [[CategoryTraitor the way communities zealously divide themselves]] through economic status, even among those in destitution. Kanye ends up [[PersonaNonGrata being banished from the group]] when they discover he'd been secretly breaking several of their tenets, such as [[FelonyMisdemeanor buying a pair of shoes, making beats for cash on the side, as well as eating and showering on the regular]].

* Internet service provider Optimum once ran an advertising campaign that touted their lower prices by having a series of customers of other [=ISPs=] talk about their expensive providers left them comically broke in some way.

* WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons' PerpetualPoverty, when not used as a plot device or [[InformedPoverty ignored entirely]], is often PlayedForLaughs, typically with jokes about their house falling apart at random (one episode shows that the walls are so thin that Lisa can punch through the wall of her room into her parents' bedroom) and their budget (at one point Marge claims to feed the family on $12 a week: "I stretch your father's meatloaf with sawdust").

* WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons' PerpetualPoverty is often PlayedForLaughs, typically with jokes about their house falling apart at random (one episode shows that the walls are so thin that Lisa can punch through the wall of her room into her parents' bedroom) and their budget (at one point Marge claims to feed the family on $12 a week: "I stretch your father's meatloaf with sawdust").

* WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons' PerpetualPoverty is often PlayedForLaughs, typically with jokes about their house falling apart at random (one episode shows that the walls are so thin that Lisa can punch through the wall of her room into her parents' bedroom) and their budget (Marge claims she feeds the family on $12 a week: "I stretch your father's meatloaf with sawdust").

* WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons' PerpetualPoverty is often PlayedForLaughs, typically with jokes about their house falling apart at random (for example, the walls are so thin that Lisa can punch through the wall of her room into her parents' bedroom) and their budget (one episode reveals that Marge feeds the family on $12 a week: "I stretch your father's meatloaf with sawdust").

* Nadja from ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'' claims that before she became a vampire, she lived as a gypsy where her family was so poor that they could only fuel their campfires with donkey dung. When the dung ran out, they burned the donkey.