"fourth-wall joke" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2005 September 27, Eric Winkler, quoting Mike Henry, “‘Untold’ heights: ‘Family Guy’ takes unrated movie straight to DVD”, in The Kansas City Star, 126th year, number 10, page E3",
          "text": "It was cool to be able to do kind of fourth-wall jokes, where we’re treating the characters as if maybe they’re not just characters.",
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          "ref": "2014 June 13, Rene Rodriguez, “Funny thing, the sequel’s pretty good”, in Miami Herald, page 10G",
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          "ref": "2016, Jack Curtis Dubowsky, “Blazing Saddles: Music and Meaning in ‘The French Mistake’”, in Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness (K.J. Donnelly, editor, Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture, →ISSN), Palgrave Macmillan, part III (Queering of Genre), page 209",
          "text": "Brooks’ formula includes a tight script, likable characters, Borscht Belt humor, vaudevillian song and dance numbers, deliberately Brechtian fourth-wall jokes, intertextual references to other films and personalities, provocative innuendo, and colorful language, creating films that are outré yet have wide audience appeal.",
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