poke

Now Jacob helps me look for guys, and we poke fun at my being gay.

Yes, I love to poke fun at people, situations and even myself.

The Songstress performances are uncomfortably raw, suggesting that Thauberger might be encouraging us to poke fun at her subjects' earnestness.

The Columbus/Hughes films may poke fun at the sentiments of earlier Christmas films, but in the end they succumb to the same maudlin praise of house and home.

Westerfeld has encapsulated today's cool in a fast-paced, fun novel that's not afraid to poke fun at our own consumerism while at the same time recognizing that cool rules.

Characters poke fun at him because of his limited command of Spanish, even as Estrada's character tries to explain that his inability to speak fluent Spanish is the result of a childhood spent in the United States.

In meeting after meeting with the food experts, they rejected the conventional wisdom in favor of "instinct, imagination, and mostly luck." They also conceived of their adventure "as a great way to poke fun at the mundane method of traditional marketing."

In the first part of this book, subtitled The Fall of Advertising, the writers poke fun at costly marketing campaigns that failed to produce results.

Designed to poke fun at the apparent millions of TV cookery programmes, it stars Arabella Weir and Richard E Grant as Minty and Simon Marchmont - the 21st century's answer to Fanny and John Cradock.

On the show, anchors and correspondents throw to each other at breakneck speed and poke fun at Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor" with "The Firth Factor."

"Comedians tend to poke fun at their own hometowns - it goes with the territory.

He says he did it simply to poke fun at an icon he loved as a child.