Sentences with phrase «while poking fun at»

Since launching her brand in 2016, Sarah has worked endlessly to promote her love of basketball while poking fun at popular culture through sneakers, city life and partying.

Every time I played a game from Jackbox Games with friends, family or other military, it has been a great time, laughing while poking fun at each other,» noted Ray Whitaker, Operation Supply Drop Chief Operating Officer.

Giving the filmmaker the benefit of the doubt — that he isn't making a broad comedy about international crisis while poking fun at broad comedy about the same subject — is a bit tough, though.

Along the way, the film explores class - consciousness from several angles while poking fun at sexism and snobbery.

Alternatively mirthful and macabre, while poking fun at modern mating habits and the paranoia of espionage culture, Burn after Reading proves to be a refreshingly - intelligent diversion designed with the more cerebral cineaste in mind.

And much like last year's «Wreck - It Ralph» (or the more tonally similar «Adventure Time»), «The Lego Movie» anticipates a certain attention - deficit quality in its audience, constantly plunging the action into new and different realms, while poking fun at the various characters and customs that make each sort of silly along the way.

She commands a place in pop culture while poking fun at it.

While I poke fun at the falacies of things, and yes I poke fun at how science fails at times (they can make a car that runs almost completely without gas, but they can't make deoderant that lasts more than half a day?)

Not exact matches

By poking fun at itself, the company's team keeps the account promotional while still being human.

It's always good to poke fun at yourself once in a while to stay grounded.

The female relatives poke fun at the couple and the in - laws while singing songs.

They poke fun at clichés of this while living them out.

While it didn't take this one long to come true, in 2014 the show poked fun at widespread corruption inside FIFA that would bring down the organization's leadership.

While the first sample article poked fun at the ability of Red Sox fans to be absurdly hyperbolic about Ortiz, that doesn't mean I get tired of listening to what he means to them.

While awards do come in all shapes and colors, the current Man of the Match award presented in the English Premier League games have been rather very uninspiring aesthetically, with many poking fun at it referring to it as a «yellow brick»

A lot of the Duggar family is away in Australia, while Jim Bob speaks at a conference (and pokes fun at Jana).

This charming book from Lemony Snicket does an awesome job poking fun (pun intended) at bad moods, while acknowledging that these sour emotions will come and go.

We can even poke a little fun at ourselves while we're at it.

Another fun book is A Moose Boosh: A Few Choice Words About Food, a whimsical poetry collection that pokes fun at foodies while giving an insider look at our global food system.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg poked fun at the newspaper by tweeting a picture of what he was wearing, while Green MP Caroline Lucas said the headline was an «all time low».

The Prime Minister began his statement by poking fun at Mr Corbyn's party management problems — while also acknowledging his own.

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer poked a little fun at NYS Comptroller Tom DiNapoli while wishing him a happy birthday on Twitter.

Theresa May shows no love is lost with George Osborne as she dresses in high - vis to poke fun at former rival while accepting award

While most candidates would not want their children included in an attack ad, even a light - hearted one that pokes fun at Astorino being a fan of an out - of - state team, the Republican candidate says the spot is «personally hurtful» for altering a family photo.

In that comment Mr. Krupski pokes fun at his life as a pumpkin farmer, and raises the question on whether he can run his family's Peconic agricultural business while simultaneously representing a legislative district that stretches from Fishers Island to Center Moriches.

MTV has a show poking fun at people who fall prey to catfishing scams, while Dr. Phil and Katie Couric have shows warning against the dangers of such.

Although at times it suffers from cheesy dialogue, The Cabin in the Woods is easily on the best horror films of our time, poking fun at the cliches of horror, while being pretty scary, as at least one of your greatest fears appears, in one of the best films of 2012.

The original film celebrated the diverse inclinations of the horror genre, while also poking fun at it thanks to veteran director Craven helming the vehicle.

They approach their material with great reverence and affection, while simultaneously poking merciless fun at it.

The film is given an opportunity to shrewdly poke fun at cable news, specifically Fox News (their new home is run by a cocky Aussie), as Ron uncannily becomes a purveyor of sensationalist non-news stories like car chases and cute animals while Veronica can't make an interview with Yasser Arafat grab anyone's attention.

From the outset, Lord and Miller decide to respect the idea of Lego while reserving the right to poke fun at anything and everything the brand encompasses, including (nearly) all the other creative properties that have licensed themselves to Lego in recent years — at least, all those that fall within the expansive Warners universe, plus some of the sillier one - offs (including mermaids and clowns and so on).

It was by way of Jemaine Clement that I discovered «Tongan Ninja» director Jason Stutter's 2009 impossibly dry supernatural comedy «Diagnosis: Death,» a film which strives to poke fun at the J - horror genre while attempting to infect you with an incurable case of the giggles.

Where Austin Powers poked fun at the James Bond movies» familiar tropes and old - fashioned misogyny by imitating them to exaggerated levels, Spy's female focus allows for a different and more knowing kind of parody, while also giving McCarthy her most nuanced role to date.

Director / star James Franco somehow crafted a love letter to that film while also poking fun at yet paying tribute to the enigmatic Tommy Wiseau, «The Room's» director and star.

While it can miss at times, it hits more often than not with a dry comment about the setting you're in, poking fun at first person shooters in general, or just the main character, Athena, being witty in reaction to an NPC or situation.

Unsurprisingly, Daniel Day - Lewis took Best Actor for Lincoln with the night's most self - deprecating speech, poking fun at his own Method reputation, while in a more surprising turn Emmanuelle Riva took Best Actress for Amour, which also took Film Not In The English Language.

The actor's ability to poke fun at herself while starring in a tentpole film like «Ready Player One» is part of what makes Cooke's success feel so genuine.

The beautiful trailer pokes fun at trends within the game industry while showcasing how Trine... Read More

He effortlessly balances poking fun at Wiseau and The Room while never hanging him out to dry as a punching bag.

The game hands you a decently - sized militaristic sandbox with a ton of things to poke and prod at, and it gives you the tight controls and a lot of convincing reactivity to make things fun to tinker with for a good while.

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the generic action movie lead, poking fun at himself and the genre he ruled, while Die Hard's John McTiernan delivers the action fans would expect.

While this is our first «traditional» trailer with more plot and character details than ever, Deadpool 2 still can't help poking fourth - wall fun at itself.

Rather than putting style over substance, its style was the substance, director Matthew Vaughn pulling out every trick in the book to poke fun at the stuffy clichés of Bond - era spy films while leaning hard into its R rating to sometimes grotesque results.

And while it pokes a ton of fun at almost everyone onscreen, it's never cruel or meanspirited.

Overstaying its welcome by at least one subplot too many, Men with Brooms, with its all - Canadian cast and a soundtrack by The Tragically Hip, is a cozily jingoistic populist uplift piece that pokes fun at Canada's perceived provincialism while extolling the country's pride as well.

Blake Lively has poked fun at husband Ryan Reynolds and his «Woman in Gold» costar Helen Mirren, who could not stop gushing about each other while promoting the film.

The film even ends with a Mexican standoff that unabashedly pokes fun at audience preconceptions of crime dramas while cleverly upholding the thrill of the kill that the genre so demands.

Back to the Future is, at the same time, an embracing of the cultures of the 1950s and the 1980s, while also a satire poking fun at all of the differences.

Nonetheless, there's plenty of lucrative material at hand, and Guest and his troupe are clearly having fun poking fun at the industry that pays their bills while psychologically messing with them.

For all of its flaws, Gringo is actually entertaining; it ultimately fails at sending any worthwhile message regarding Americans stirring up problems in Mexico (save for a great newspaper article at the end poking fun at current events) but the movie never drags even if it does take a while for the craziness to pick up.