Top 31 Poke Fun Quotes
#1. In the world of late-night comics, Letterman made us feel any hometown boy from Indianapolis could poke fun at celebrities and politicians and do it right to their faces.
Chris Matthews
#2. You can see with the proliferation of magazines, you know, that just focus entirely on that. So it just - it seems like there (was) a lot of fodder and a lot of stories and fun things to poke fun at and highlight.
Debra Messing
#3. No, I might be able to poke fun at the Quran for its childishly imperious content, but not for its style.
Rabih Alameddine
#4. Trolling taps into people's desire to poke fun, make trouble and cause annoyance.
Rob Manuel
#5. It's fun for someone to poke fun at himself.
Chris Kattan
#6. You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
Ram Kapoor
#8. IT'S EASY to poke fun at nonsensical office speak. For one thing, it sounds exhausting: a colleague might "reach out," "drill down," and promise to "circle back" in a single e-mail. But by signaling membership in a white-collar tribe, meaningless jargon can be quite powerful.
Anonymous
#9. I love being around my family. I am very close to my mum, my brother, my grandmother, my aunts - we constantly poke fun at each other, but it's all done out of love.
Jourdan Dunn
#10. You can poke fun at some pretty difficult circumstances, and it's just a way to pop the bubble. I don't do that thing onstage usually, but offstage sometimes I might.
Brian Regan
#11. C19: People make fun of our speaking a minority language. How should I react? It is often people who can't speak a second language who tend to poke fun at those who can speak two or three languages.
Colin Baker
#12. My wife is French, and so I get to see America through her eyes, which informs a lot of little moments. It means I can poke fun at very particular things about us.
Colin Trevorrow
#13. Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
Barbara Kingsolver
#14. I like girls who are self-deprecating. I like girls who make fun of themselves. If you can't poke fun at yourself, what are you? I just want someone with a good soul. That's about it. The rest I'm really flexible on.
Chris Evans
#15. I poke fun of everybody and everything. And who's easier to make fun of than your mother?
Alexis Stewart
#16. We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.
Edgar Wilson Nye
#17. I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.
Annie E. Clark
#18. I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous, so I poke fun at that.
Kendra Wilkinson
#19. It's easy to poke fun at the world and think yourself clever, but it's much harder to stand silent and endure.
Jessica Cluess
#20. Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.
Michael Patrick King
#21. But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun.
Kaye Gibbons
#22. For the fact is that it takes a great deal of self-confidence for a person to poke fun at himself, and a person with that kind of self-confidence is rarely a fool or a bungler.
Paul Auster
#23. I have always thought foreigners with their unusual skin colours, mad languages and ignorant customs absolutely hilarious, and I think it's a shame that in recent years its become unfashionable to poke fun at them. I certainly don't think they themselves ever minded it.
Arthur Mathews
#24. I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.
Delta Burke
#25. It really is great. Especially having people who we make fun every week come on and poke fun at themselves is really cool, I love that. No reality star has been mad at me yet for making fun of them. I'm sure that one day soon though, someone is going to take a swing at me.
Joel McHale
#26. Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.
Issa Rae
#27. I don't think I'm too mean to celebrities. I poke fun, but I think in the end, they always win.
Shane Dawson
#28. You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it.
Dermot Mulroney
#29. It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.
Marty Rubin
#30. Comic-Con is incredibly important to San Diego, but that doesn't mean we can't poke a little fun at it!
Steve Breen
#31. When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
Ian Somerhalder