poke fun

But when the pageant itself starts to poke fun at the contestants, organizers should expect that they will lose all credibility.

And that also allowed me to poke fun at the idea that our mind is somehow ‘better’ or more ‘us’ than our body.

This initiative highlights activists from Cuba to China, who use satire to poke fun at their blundering and oppressive regimes.

Breaking down rigid social hierarchy so characteristic of the Middle Ages, these riotous tales poke fun at everyone.

Everyone loves when celebrities can poke fun at themselves at awards shows.

They began to poke fun at me, and gave me to read Mendelssohn's Phaedo, which by chance lay on the table.

Then the good little girls should be lugged in, to poke fun at him, and ask him if he likes 'em hard or soft.

Rice knew the legislative work perfectly and concluded to poke fun at the Enterprise letters.

Like all fickle crowds, the boys now applauded Jud just as strongly as they had previously sought to poke fun at him.

The doctor had one annoying habit—imagined he had the right to poke fun at everybody simply because he was a doctor.