poke fun at someone or something
to make fun of someone or something. You shouldn't poke fun at me for my mistakes. They are just poking fun at the strange architecture.
poke fun at
see under make fun of.
poke fun at
tease or make fun of. 1989 Basile Kerblay Gorbachev's Russia They used to poke fun at his boorish ways.
poke fun at
To ridicule in a mischievous manner.
poke fun at, to
To mock or ridicule, to tease. Poke here means “to thrust,” and the fun is at the victim’s expense. This term has been around since 1835 or so. The OED cites Thomas Hood’s Up the Rhine (1840): “The American . . . in a dry way began to poke his fun at the unfortunate traveler,” a statement that leaves no doubt about who is having the “fun.”