1.40pm: There's nasty piece of YouTube posted by someone named by NHLiberty4Paul, ostensibly a pro-Ron Paul ad that mocks Jon Huntsman for his links with China, calling him a "Manchurian candidate" and specifically mentioning Huntsman's adopted daughters.
Against my expectations, the mass of teenagers take my weight just as Holman screams "Cheer Up London!" and launches into Slaves' latest anthem, a slice of Fight Club-style existentialism that mocks the capital and its grumpy inhabitants.
With A Bic for Her, Christie has found a rich seam of comedy that mocks misogyny; her set – which comes to London's Soho theatre from mid-November – delivered a satisfying, cathartic and very funny hour of standup about her battles with everyday sexism, from sports reporters to lads' magazines.
During the interview Turner observes: "We're very aware of what we're doing [and] we're aware the mainstream media mocks the art world".
My kind of satire is the type that punches up, the type that holds the powerful to account and mocks authority – there is a huge difference between mocking the clerical class that used to rule France through privileged access to power and mocking the faith of the descendants of immigrants largely locked out of power and experiencing acute levels of prejudice.
#OscarsSoWhite mocks Academy snub of actors of colour Rather as I feared, the film that I personally felt strongest about — Richard Linklater's masterly Boyhood — might actually be fading in this Oscar race, and that's despite an extremely strong showing in the Golden Globes.
The forest that has swallowed Abney Park mocks the original design for an arboretum, where every plant was carefully labelled to elevate the public taste.
Every nine weeks they press reset and offer a child something different if they need it, explains Bailey, adding that they make sure students go at the right pace through lots of assessment, with daily discussions and weekly mocks leading up to exams.
Lahiri mocks rather than just refuses ethnic stereotypes and is almost aggressively offensive instead.
Greg Craven, vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University, reckons giving a minister, rather than the courts, the power to impose the penalty is "irredeemably unconstitutional … [and] mocks the separation of powers".
But the slaughter still mocks Mr Obama's pieties about interdependence, and his glib plans for win-win diplomacy.
