Sentence examples similar to mocking funny from inspiring English sources

Picture Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night when Rod Steiger's southern sheriff mocks his "funny name for a nigger boy from Philadelphia" and asks, "What do they call you up there?" Righteous rage drips from every syllable of his five-word answer: "They call me Mister Tibbs!" See below for the Poitier clip and others with Washington, Freeman, Smith, and Don Cheadle.

Here are some notes" — to which she retorted, "If we're perfect for these parts, why don't you give us a contract?" She thought she was being funny, mocking the insincerity of the business.

That said, his ad is terse and funny, mocking Mr. Corzine as "big Jon" while suggesting his ungainly high-five and irrepressible whoop are his only response to nagging criticisms.

But they also affirm life in ways that are funny, mocking, sad and often strikingly beautiful: ways that come naturally to someone from Georgia, a small country in the Caucasus mountains that even in the darkest Soviet times was known for endowing its inhabitants with a strong visual sensibility and a vivid sense of humor.

But when I listened to Chomsky, erudite and funny, mocking the crimes of the Anglosphere, I was struck by the near absence of any mention of the old Soviet Union's (now Putin's Russia) opportunist role in the Middle East's miseries, let alone those Chinese oil contracts.

With self-mocking, funny tales of encountering "freaky half-naked shit" of himself on the internet, Levine seems to have decided the best way to cope with a sexualised image is to send it up.

It's not just that the subjects here (House of Lords reform; faith schools) are less hackneyed and the jokes funnier (mocking the UK terror alert system for only ever upgrading to "critical" shortly after terrorist attacks), it's that he explicitly contrasts this shabby, sold-off UK with the country he'd like it to be.

My father used to do a funny dance, mocking people coming out of synagogue.

They were impressed by his ability to juggle many characters and make them funny without mocking them.

Unforgiving, unrepentant, and vicious, Khadra's Qaddafi is also mercurial — sentimental when recalling his Bedouin childhood, darkly funny when mocking Arab dictators who accede too easily in the face of their people's demands.

His team-mate, the defender Sergio Ramos has seen the funny side, mocking the gesture by posting a picture on Twitter of himself posing next to picture of the most famous crotch grabber of them all, the 'King of Pop' Michael Jackson.