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Examples
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That seemed like a new kind of British behaviour, ribald and self-mocking.
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Part of their surprise, Jean explains, is because the show has always been willing to skewer itself and its own mega-success: "We've been that way from the beginning, self-mocking."
ANIMATION OF THE DAY: Banksy delivers the quasi-dark satire on 'THE SIMPSONS' (Updated) Michael Cavna 2010
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And of course there can never be enough of Neil Patrick Harris in self-mocking, lady-killer mode.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Donwton Abbey Has Gone Down, Down, Down in Quality Michael Giltz 2012
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There's a boldness to much of the work, balanced here and there by an almost self-mocking irony.
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And of course there can never be enough of Neil Patrick Harris in self-mocking, lady-killer mode.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Donwton Abbey Has Gone Down, Down, Down in Quality Michael Giltz 2012
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Many Americans I have talked to had the same reaction to this tour — that it was meant to be one long propaganda spiel for communist East Germany but in fact was pathetically self-mocking.
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But after a series of hilariously self-mocking funnyordie.com video shorts — including one that reclaimed his weeping meme — Van Der Beek no longer needs to cry.
Cheers & Jeers: James Van Der Beek — Sad Dawson No More! 2011
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The production by Nicolas Hytner for ENO-London was weird and occasionally self-mocking.
A Season of Meager Delights David Littlejohn 2011
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Many Americans I have talked to had the same reaction to this tour — that it was meant to be one long propaganda spiel for communist East Germany but in fact was pathetically self-mocking.
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And of course there can never be enough of Neil Patrick Harris in self-mocking, lady-killer mode.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Donwton Abbey Has Gone Down, Down, Down in Quality Michael Giltz 2012
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