"Show me a tax return," he said in mock dialogue, and drawled in response, "Well, I lost it," which elicited knowing laughs.
His columns fashioned from dialogues with Richard Nixon when living, and his channeled mock-dialogues with Nixon when dead, were a prodigy of bad taste.
(The fourth B refers to the show's solemn, mock Elizabethan dialogue, light on definite articles — "When ritual is ended, see blood cleansed" — but studded with profanity).
It's easy to mock the dialogue between the mall space and the huge photographs of the art, but the exhibit is full of pleasures.
It would be easy to mock the dialogue between the big photographs and the white mall space, as mocking big, blown-up photographs substituting for the real art work is a standard form of mockery.
The segments featuring children are linked, tenuously, by the main character's mock-therapeutic dialogue with the puppet, a red dinosaurlike creature with an exotic accent.
As he gulps white wine and leans against a cluster of naked Barbie dolls (the décor here is as self-consciously naughty as the dialogue), mocking a young man for his kissing technique one minute, making fun of a donkey the next, you have to wonder: If Rosie O'Donnell had a different accent, would she still be on "The View"?
Similarly, Wilde's use of dialogue mocks the upper classes of Victorian England lending the play a satirical tone.
He's the alazonic, self-interested politician that Socrates mocked in the early Platonic dialogues, the short-sighted English jingoist that Jonathan Swift so abhorred, and the privately educated, narrow-minded intellectual dolt that Oscar Wilde so often attacked.
Crucially, what the dialogue between hooks and Mock demonstrates is that we can intelligently debate and disagree without beefing.
In the late 90s, Guest wrote and directed Waiting for Guffman, a mock docu-style movie with improvised dialogue about the community theater production of a musical.
