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A self-mocking appearance in a comedian's rugby skit also did big numbers, external.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

That is why he also calls his hybrid house the “absorbatory,” self-mocking but sincere: “a place to take it in, to dissolve, if such a thing is possible, the boundary between self and world.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

As Irish journalist and author Fintan O’Toole notes, by the mid-20th century, “the self-mocking joke was that most Irish people were illiterate in two languages.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

Helped by Siddhartha Khosla’s score, the show occasionally achieves a lightly engaging, subtly self-mocking Hitchcockian vibe.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2023

“Oh, clearly,” he agreed, self-mocking and more than a little pleased.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor