make fun of

1. Also, poke fun at; make sport of. Mock, ridicule, as in The girls made fun of Mary's shoes, or They poked fun at Willie's haircut, or I wish you wouldn't make sport of the new boy. The first term dates from the early 1700s, the second from the mid-1800s, and the third from the early 1500s.

Example Sentences

“And when I saw what was going on in Portland—the right framing for these people is to laugh at them, make fun of them, and show up in peaceful protests. So that’s why I’m here. I said, ‘I’m tired of being afraid, and I’m going out in my unicorn outfit.’”

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But it was an epic joke-off featuring past “Update” anchors Poehler, Fey and Meyers facing off against current ones Colin Jost and Michael Che to make fun of the birth of a nearly 13-pound baby born in Tennessee.

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“There’s stupidity on both sides. Our job is to make fun of it,” he said last year in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

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"They'd tell me all about Toni Morrison and Kimberlé Crenshaw, as if they had read all their books while locked up during Covid. So it was nice to make fun of these ridiculous experiences at the contest."

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He has turned his coup into a media tour, including a Wednesday stop by Fox News to complain that late-night hosts “went from being court jesters that would make fun of everybody in power to being court clerics and enforcing a very narrow political ideology.”

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