Long ago, The Onion ran the mock-headline: "Book Given As Gift Actually Read".
We did not place him in the part of a female hero simply because we felt that choice might run the risk of mocking a female hero.
If you want to refine your technique before you run the real focus group, run a mock session using a few members in the organization as participants.
There was a toy train running round the mock-up.
It is the first time the newspaper has run a mock news column on its front page as an ad, although the paper has been running front-page ads since 2007.
The Health Insurance Association of America ran the famous "Harry and Louise" commercials mocking the Clinton health care plan as impenetrably complex.
At a parliamentary committee hearing last week, three current and former officials who ran the case were openly mocked.
His love for the rocker may be unrequited, however: Springsteen joined "Late Night" host Jimmy Fallon in January to perform a "Born to Run" parody mocking the "Bridgegate" scandal surrounding the Christie administration's closing of George Washington Bridge access lanes.
The N.C.A.A. has run a mock selection committee in February in Indianapolis, inviting about two dozen journalists from around the country to replicate the process as closely as possible.
LOS ANGELES — "This breaking news just in — Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!" That was Chevy Chase's running gag in the mock news segment of a show that was called "NBC Saturday Night," before it turned into "Saturday Night Live".
