"self ridicule" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to criticism of oneself. For example, "After making a mistake, she resorted to self ridicule to cope with her embarrassment."
His rock-star gestures always came with a note of self-ridicule.
The format certainly has its appeal: at the very least, self-ridicule is entertaining.
He widened his eyes in self-ridicule, then, the next moment, his expression became somber.
"Yay!" I'd say in the mirror, cracking up sometimes, but plowing through it, pushing past the self-ridicule.
Even minor characters surge with fascinating foibles: Mary's mother indulges in "complacent self deprecation", relating long anecdotes about herself, with feigned self-ridicule not quite masking her narcissism.
It's time for Britain to speak out, otherwise it will only court self-ridicule the next time it chooses to deploy the language of the human rights movement when condemning official enemies, or accusing others of complicity in their crimes.
Even those costumed conventioneers who go all out, working year-round to amass, scrounge, or counterfeit cleverly the materials required to put together, with glue gun, soldering iron, makeup, and needle and thread, a faithful and accurate Black Canary or Ant-Man costume, find themselves prey to forces, implacable as gravity, of tawdriness, gimcrackery, and unwitting self-ridicule.
You won't necessarily agree with her ("Me not wanting to have a baby is like a bird saying, 'I'll walk'"), but her punchy, unabashed delivery and keen self-ridicule – not to mention the free-flowing, hardboiled jokes – will likely win you over.
Underneath its silliness, the song, written for Cash by Gary Gentry, offers a surprisingly pointed mix of self-ridicule and lashing out against the business: Cash is told by a doctor that "Your body's outlived your brain"; he resorts to plain thievery to make a dollar; everyone just wants to hear the old hits.
From libelous assertions ("Some famous homosexuals American men includes Spiderman, Ronald Micdonalds and Madonna") to goofball self-ridicule (Borat was teased as a child "since my moustache was slow and did not appear until I was age of 9"), there's something here to offend everyone, much of it related to "ambitiousness, intrigue, mercenary sex".
And this high-wire act of self-ridicule continues!
