The trashy British acts alienated me, with their clichéd caricatures of femininity: my gender issues felt serious, and the mockery these performers invited didn't seem too helpful.
But since "the competition from my point of view is meant not to be serious, but a mockery," the first prize is $10, which is an improvement over the Twinkie he used to offer.
Beyond the mockery, the serious point seems to be that old people shouldn't be judging "yoof".
This weight of numbers has combined with staff reductions to condemn many prisoners to being banged up for all but two or three hours a day, a regime that makes a mockery of serious hopes for education and other paths to redemption.
Finch, portraying a television executive, screams defiance at the banality and excesses of the medium, just as Lumet – somewhat more subtly – would express his disillusionment with the studios' obsession with infantile blockbusters that made a mockery of serious directors such as himself.
Both Antoine and Jean Paul are adamant that, while Eurotrash works in England, it would never be tolerated in their native France, a "very, very serious" place where self-mockery is inadmissible.
Everybody used to giggle about that, Chappelle walkin' around with a gold tooth and braids – but to make a serious musician like Rick James a mockery for a whole generation, that's not fair.
I am second to no one in Coenmania — when I arrive at last at the grindhouse at the end of the world, I am hoping that it will be playing a permanent double bill of "The Big Lebowski" and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" — and I was glad to subject my own more-than-ugly name to their mockery in "A Serious Man".
Ministers have decided that the best tone to take is "serious and sorrowful", rather than flippant mockery, hence Gove's tone.
