Top 31 Should Not Poke Fun Quotes

#1. We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

Edgar Wilson Nye

#2. 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

#3. I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.

Annie E. Clark

#4. I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous, so I poke fun at that.

Kendra Wilkinson

#5. It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.

Marty Rubin

#6. 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

#7. Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

Michael Patrick King

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.

Issa Rae

#14. I don't think I'm too mean to celebrities. I poke fun, but I think in the end, they always win.

Shane Dawson

#15. I poke fun of everybody and everything. And who's easier to make fun of than your mother?

Alexis Stewart

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#25. 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

#26. It's fun for someone to poke fun at himself.

Chris Kattan

#27. Trolling taps into people's desire to poke fun, make trouble and cause annoyance.

Rob Manuel

#28. No, I might be able to poke fun at the Quran for its childishly imperious content, but not for its style.

Rabih Alameddine

#29. Comic-Con is incredibly important to San Diego, but that doesn't mean we can't poke a little fun at it!

Steve Breen

#30. 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

#31. 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

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