John Travolta, whose mangling of the name of the singer Idina Menzel ignited a wave of social media mockery last year, joined her on stage to co-present an award and seek redemption.
Mr Romney faced widespread criticism and mockery yesterday for his comments - and for seemingly forgetting the Labour leader Ed Miliband's name during a press conference.
Imagine the popular mockery in 1900 when the first bird census takers emerged on Christmas Day to present a pacifist alternative to the grand old "Side Hunt" -- the traditional killing binge in which Americans went festivally into the woods to compete in shooting as many birds and small animals as they could within the holiday.
Icke, a former BBC presenter, drew mockery in 1991 when he pronounced himself the son of the messiah in an interview with Terry Wogan.
An unpopular Bush incurred mockery in 2006 when he insisted that he was "the decider", and had decided to ignore calls to fire then-defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
However, as the mockery of this year's crop of Apprentice desperadoes gets underway, maybe we should stay aware of how we're being "distracted".
He argues that this practice makes a mockery of last year's "stress tests," which the Treasury and Fed carried out to assure investors of banks' solvency.
There are intrinsic differences: Hodgson will never experience the deference enjoyed by Ramsey, whose aloofness and social pretensions, highlighted by his elocution lessons, would leave him vulnerable to the mockery of today's chattering classes.
The film is supposed to be a mockery of spring break culture, but even the young 20-year-olds next to me in the theatre, who laughed their way through the previews, were silent for much of the show, unsure what to make of it.
I understand that saying this would make a mockery of the past three months of the McCain campaign.
THE occasion of taking out my cellphone has provoked considerable mockery in the last 18 months or so.
