Japery

Having previously tried various shades of sexism, anti-environmentalism, liberal-baiting which, to be fair, works, and must be extremely satisfying and other offensive/hilarious topics too numerous and tedious to mention, the team this week settled on "xenophobic japery" as the hue du jour. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The endless possibilities for net-japery suggested here, however, may be a mere pipedream. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the whole show is meta, in truth, and quite deep, too, for all the japery. ❋ Elisabeth Mahoney (2010)

Thus far the storyline has consisted of endless scenes in which rhubarbing menials stand around with folded arms, the mood pitched somewhere between the knockabout rustic japery of Straw Dogs and the apocalyptic menace of a Yeo Valley ad. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The show cloaks itself in wholesome, old-fashioned japery with its broad misunderstandings ("I said ghosts, not goats!") and knowing winks at Hi-de-Hi! and Frank Spencer, and the way Miranda's mother (Patricia Hodge) flits in and out as if through a time portal to a 1950s Whitehall farce. ❋ Phil Hogan (2010)

The fans responded in kind, cheering him and howling with laughter at his relentless japery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The more Clinton upended the expectations of the boys on the bus, the more those boys reverted to Moose lodge–style japery toward her and her sex. ❋ Rebecca Traister (2010)

In just one year, Pruitt's subversive japery has become indistinguishable from full-fledged art-world approval matrices--hardly anyone remembers the ice age of 2009, when the awards were cleverly castrated as "performance." ❋ Selby Drummond (2010)

In just one year, Pruitt's subversive japery has become indistinguishable from full-fledged art-world approval matrices -- hardly anyone remembers the ice age of 2009, when the awards were cleverly castrated as "performance." ❋ Selby Drummond (2010)

How sad that our police seem unable to take a bit of japery and fun these days, oh hang on I forgot he is a moslem and so one of the beloved of the righteous. ❋ FIDO The Dog (2009)

I dont know what has happened to Sanjeev Bhaskar since Goodness Gracious Me dazzled everyone with its humorous ethnic-based japery back in the days when that sort of thing was terribly radical, but the man has become a mockery. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yet, taken as a whole, this din of japery doesn't feel like a desperate mosh at the Robin Williams mansion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I leave the japery to jesters such as Staining Jerusalem and mr.r. phil ❋ Unknown (2009)

Well get this jolly ol barrel of japery, apparently losing ones living and having to go cap in hand to the state can be good for you. ❋ FIDO The Dog (2009)

Such japery demeans the work of this gifted writer. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was a jest; mere japery in reference to Ann's post title that was meant to expose the very issue you just expounded on. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)