He was the "butt of jokes amongst people who were themselves the butt of jokes", the author says of his ostracised life in a downtrodden part of the country.
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The administration's "Infrastructure Week" theme also became the butt of jokes.
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And Hitler is frequently the butt of jokes on Family Guy.
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But neither should he be solely the butt of jokes either.
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His symptoms had become the butt of jokes with his friends.
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Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand, Goop, is often the butt of jokes.
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When it comes to humor, politicians are often the butt of jokes.
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My last name is a huge butt of jokes for white people.
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The startup became the butt of jokes about how anything could get funding.
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And not have them be just the butt of jokes or the help.
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But in 2008 when it was released, it was the butt of jokes.
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I was dubbed the "hooker teacher" and made into the butt of jokes.
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The cubicles of the '80s and '90s became the butt of jokes long ago.
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Then, last week, he became the butt of jokes after a car-crash interview.
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Creating conversations about the meth problem in South Dakota by becoming the butt of jokes.
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The climate change denialist law became the butt of jokes nationally, including from Stephen Colbert.
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"I was the butt of jokes on every national network in the United States," Radel says.
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Presenting enslaved Africans as the butt of jokes desensitized white Americans to the horrors of slavery.
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In 2016, he became the butt of jokes when he debuted a very Zach Morris '90s haircut.
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The Gabor sisters were often the butt of jokes, with people saying they were famous for nothing.
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In 2015, she told an Australian publication she had become the butt of jokes because of it.
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English majors are often the butt of jokes regarding the "useless" nature of a liberal arts education.
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He became the butt of jokes for being too folksy, pilloried for being a Georgia peanut farmer.
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In recent years, "vaping" and "vape culture" has become the butt of jokes and memes on social media.
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The senile Soviet leaders who lined up on the top of the mausoleum were the butt of jokes.
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And because of his seemingly picture-perfect life, he often becomes the butt of jokes and internet memes.
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The budget airline's boss has belatedly tried to improve its image as the butt of jokes about shoddy service.
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Cultural appropriation is when the wearing of a hat makes one group the butt of jokes and another "cultured."
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Women and even teenage girls in this movie are portrayed as annoyances, cruel, cold, and even the butt of jokes.
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Throughout his two-year leadership, Abbott was frequently the butt of jokes about small missteps which spread on social media.
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She is the butt of jokes in school; she is poorly coordinated; she does nor appear to be very bright.
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One tiger statue in front of an Indonesia military base has been destroyed after it became the butt of jokes online.
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But Trump's history as a birther didn't just make him the butt of jokes after Obama released his real birth certificate.
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And, the association behind the ceremony, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, continues to be the butt of jokes at the ceremonies.
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It's important that the trans community is respected and seen as individuals—not as the butt of jokes or clichéd characters.
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The strong state goes back centuries in France, and its absurdities have been the butt of jokes for almost as long.
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In a grander sense, Siri has felt stagnant for years and is often the butt of jokes regarding AI's lack of sophistication.
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Even at the very best, Trump may find himself the butt of jokes and suffering a drip feed of gossip and innuendo.
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Almost as soon as Occupy Wall Street roared into existence in 2011, it became the butt of jokes and fodder for mockery.
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Recently, there's been a shift from comics making prostitutes the butt of jokes, to sex workers poking fun at their own profession.
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The stigma around solutions to this common problem is huge, and modern hair replenishment technology has been the butt of jokes for decades.
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The planet, often the butt of jokes, has an atmosphere that smells like rotting eggs because its clouds are composed of hydrogen sulfide.
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Minnesota Republicans have not won a statewide race in more than a decade, and their party is the butt of jokes in Washington.
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Instead, the Democratic presidential frontrunner became the butt of jokes on Twitter, among those who know a thing or two about Venn diagrams.
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In making Mr Godard and his sexism the endless butt of jokes, the film replicates the oppression it critiques by neglecting its female character.
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The work was inspired by the story of Mollah Nasreddin, a folk hero across the Middle East who is often the butt of jokes.
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Between then and this season, the team churned through draft picks, quarterbacks and coaches and turned into a butt of jokes for its ineptitude.
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That's just a slice of classic standup, nothing strange or startling to any of us who are used to being the butt of jokes.
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"It was the butt of jokes," Mr. Torino said of the area, its reputation clouded by the stench and environmental toll of the landfills.
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The Big Bang Theory is often the butt of jokes among TV critics, which makes last night's episode of the sitcom all the more surprising.
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It's in her daughter — the hippie so easily made the butt of jokes — that we see the necessity of adaptability, however uncomfortable it may be.
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But it hurt on a personal level because there was this technology that I really loved, which then became kind of the butt of jokes.
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In May, the brand promoted custom bottles that were intended to celebrate the diversity of body shapes, but became the butt of jokes on Twitter.
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After decades as the butt of jokes by Johnny Carson, by Steve Martin, by Larry David — basically, by everyone — Los Angeles may seem beyond satire.
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He wants to be a stand up comedian, mimicking others to learn how to do so, but ends up being the butt of jokes himself.
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He wants to be a stand up comedian, mimicking others to learn how to do so, but ends up being the butt of jokes himself.
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While the photographs are the butt of jokes and mockery online, the images of Kim on horseback touring the mountain are imbued with potent symbolism.
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Cruz has been the butt of jokes since he called a basketball rim a "ring" last week while campaigning in Indiana, known as being Hoosier country.
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Then, in a moment, she became better known for falling than she would have for winning, the butt of jokes and even the target of animosity.
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While the character "Fonzie" rarely allowed himself to be the butt of jokes, Winkler was quick to laugh at himself when he appeared backstage on Monday.
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Even so, the Illuminati seem to persist in our collective consciousness, serving as the butt of jokes and the source of lizard people rumors (explained here).
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Celebrities like Mindy Kaling and Anne Hathaway have taken to social media to mock the trend, which has become the butt of jokes on Twitter and Instagram.
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He had been wrong in world-historical proportions, wrong enough that the leader of the free world made him the butt of jokes for nearly an hour.
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Derek and Hansel are routinely the butt of jokes because of their old school fashion sense, but the movie isn't aware that it's out of touch too.
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Today, the building's state of disrepair has become the butt of jokes in the city, as the scaffolding around it prevents stones from falling on people below.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Critiques may often serve as the butt of jokes, but there's no denying they're an indispensable component of every artist's education.
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Mr. Thicke's character on "Growing Pains" could be a measured voice of wisdom too, but he was also frequently the butt of jokes, and he was fallible.
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Although the 48-year-old Mr Gandhi's sudden penchant for being photographed visiting Hindu temples has been the butt of jokes, the overall strategy seems to be working.
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Although I'm not sure the "not funny" label applies to Black women in quite the same way, as we always seem to end up the butt of jokes.
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The service has gone from being the butt of jokes about the poor quality of internet video to a powerhouse of online entertainment with billions in annual revenue.
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It is notable that to break the ice with Stalin, Roosevelt found it necessary to make Churchill the butt of jokes -- referencing his cigar smoking and other eccentricities.
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While the well-heeled boots have been the butt of jokes from Rubio's GOP rivals and political observers for weeks, Fallon insisted that Rubio should wear them proudly.
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Mr. Gondelman, who recently got engaged to the writer Maris Kreizman, often builds material out of defending things that are the butt of jokes, like mothers-in-law.
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And with the war suddenly in the news and the butt of jokes on social media, they might fairly wonder: Well, did Canada burn down the White House?
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The MessagePad soon became the butt of jokes in popular cartoons like Doonesbury and The Simpsons because of its inability to accurately translate what you'd written into text.
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Videos of the modern scam started appearing on China's internet several years ago, and the perpetrators have become the butt of jokes and a source of public entertainment.
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Kazakhstan's big international breakout moment came as the butt of jokes by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who played Borat, a bigoted and clueless Kazakh, in a 2006 mockumentary.
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Even though the virtual assistant is an OG compared to Alexa and the Google Assistant, it hasn't stayed the frontrunner and has often been the butt of jokes online.
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"For so long trans people on television have been the butt of jokes or murder victims," McLeland, who is transgender, said of Margo, the professor played by Jen Richards.
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We otherwise risk making the U.S. civil aviation supply chain a punchline, the butt of jokes by our foreign competition, as we remain sidelined by our own elected officials.
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This tension served as the foundation for Lore Reasons, our podcast series that tries to seriously and earnestly untangle the same mythology that's also served as the butt of jokes.
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Though often the butt of jokes, excluded from family conversations, and generally regarded as secondary to the women in Keeping Up, she still fulfilled an important role in the family.
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Compounding the problem, from comic books to late night comics, minivans had become the butt of jokes -- derided as soccer-mom-mobiles, the vehicles you drove only if you had it.
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It may have often looked as if she were the butt of jokes, but Georgette regularly used comedy to her advantage, holding her good-natured ground to get what she wanted.
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The 1924 title was followed by a World Series appearance the next season and another in 1933, but the franchise often finished in last place and was the butt of jokes.
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Long the butt of jokes for its lackluster interface and over-the-top, star-studded launch, Tidal is now the only place you can listen to West's TLOP or Beyonce's "Formation".
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His bands handily blew away any band they shared a bill with and instilled pride in a town that was often the butt of jokes from people in Manhattan or Queens.
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No one's been arrested for the offense in almost 50 years in Chesapeake, Va., but the city changed its rules this year after an outcry turned it into the butt of jokes.
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That followed an earlier campaign in May, in which the brand promoted custom bottles that were intended to celebrate the diversity of body shapes, but became the butt of jokes on Twitter.
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The president also likely didn't appreciate being the butt of jokes and criticism at the show, where host Jimmy Kimmel mocked Trump's tweeting habits and the recent departure of communications director Hope Hicks.
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Milton Keynes is the name of a town 50 miles north of London that has long been the butt of jokes over its reputation as a particularly uninspired example of postwar town planning.
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Once the butt of jokes, Skoda has flourished under nearly 30 years of VW ownership to become one of its profit drivers, even beating luxury brand Audi's and BMW's operating margins last year.
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Ford was widely known for his gaffes, stunts and alcohol and drug abuse, and was often the butt of jokes by American late-night hosts like David Letterman, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
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BUENOS AIRES, June 16 (Reuters) - The economic recovery promised by Argentine President Mauricio Macri for the second half of this year looks so unlikely it has become the butt of jokes on Twitter.
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But those gestures and Mr. Munoz's apologies have done little to quell the controversy as United found itself the source of criticism from customers and the butt of jokes from late-night comics.
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And nobody knows that better than Anthony Torres, a 56-year-old man in New York who was recently the butt of jokes when a video of him shaving on a train went viral.
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Uranus may be the butt of jokes and not have the excitement of the eclipse, but for anyone looking for a little show in the sky should keep their eyes out for something blue.
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Take the humble drive-through window, a fixture of suburban life and the butt of jokes for foodies — yet it is also responsible for up to 70 percent of McDonald's $1503 billion in revenue.
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Peru's Lake Titicaca, already the butt of jokes worldwide, is so polluted that the Titicaca water frog (so named for its baggy skin), which makes its home exclusively in the lake, is critically endangered.
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The public displays of affection between the two men were so gushy that they became the butt of jokes — even by Mr. Macron when, by the way, he addressed a joint session of Congress.
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Once the butt of jokes, Skoda has blossomed under 5003 years of VW group ownership into a successful mid-market carmaker, steadily winning business from rivals - including VW - and surpassing even Audi's operating profit margin last year.
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The government had spent several years attempting to sell PIA, which has accumulated losses of more than $3 billion and has become the butt of jokes in Pakistan due to its outdated airplanes and poor customer service.
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Ever since the former Wells Fargo & Co chief executive by that name stepped down over a sales scandal at the U.S. bank, John Stumpf, a Petco worker living in Bakersfield, California, has been the butt of jokes.
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He speaks English not only well but gladly, in contrast to his predecessors, François Hollande (whose ropy English was the butt of jokes) and Jacques Chirac (who often pointedly refused to talk in English, though he could).
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said a new airport in Pakistan's capital will be operational by mid-August, replacing the cramped Benazir Bhutto International Airport that was the butt of jokes for many travelers.
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He went from victim of what he first described as a robbery and kidnapping to the butt of jokes over a bizarre night in Honolulu that left him with a bloodied forehead and no memory of what happened.
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Quick, and a race winner with Williams in Spain in 2012, Maldonado also has an accident-prone reputation that has made him a regular visitor to the stewards as well as the butt of jokes on social media.
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From late-night TV comedy shows where supposedly clueless older people are the butt of jokes to ads for anti-aging creams equating youth with beauty and wrinkles with decay, harsh and unflattering images shape assumptions about aging.
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Having become the butt of jokes for being hit by a kicking net that he struck out of frustration, Odell Beckham Jr. seems to have decided to make this a thing, potentially for the rest of the season.
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She notes that slut shaming and STI shaming play a huge role in the cultural attitudes around herpes, a virus that's often the butt of jokes in media and pop culture, but the issues she found went deeper.
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"We don't want to continue to be the butt of jokes," said Matt Aitken, a former member of the city-county commission and a real estate agent who has a number of properties listed near Mr. Lester's clubs.
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George Mason University touted a plan last week to rename its law school after the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia — but the new moniker was quickly scrubbed after its acronym became the butt of jokes on social media.
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That Erskine and Konkle, both grown women, are the butt of jokes and some middle school bullying while vowing to stick by each other through thick and thin makes their friendship even more endearing, and their situation even more comedic.
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And the cloud and data based Apple Maps service, out since 2012, was the butt of jokes and is still inferior to Google Maps, even on the iPhone — though it's improving and is now more popular than Google's app on iOS.
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And the cloud- and data-based Apple Maps service, out since 2012, was the butt of jokes and is still inferior to Google Maps, even on the iPhone — though it's improving and is now more popular than Google's app on iOS.
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" Mr. Chan, who is part Chinese, said he talked about watching a revival of Mr. Martins's "Magic Flute" as a young boy, which features an Asian servant who is the butt of jokes and "feeling like everyone was laughing at me.
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The post was retweeted 2,100 times, attracted 3,200 comments and figured on primetime news shows after it was posted late on Monday, becoming the butt of jokes on social media, with some users questioning how 80 rupees could be less than 70.
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Friends often played up Phoebe Buffay's goofy side with airhead lines to make her the butt of jokes, and leaned on her "weirdness" for comedic relief, like the running gag of signature song "Smelly Cat," performed regularly during her gigs at Central Perk.
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Parts of Uncharted have a fun showiness: Ramsay puts himself at the butt of jokes ("I'm Gordon James, not James Bond," he says, when he sees a cliff he'll have to scale); he rides a motorcycle, and cooks outside over open fire at high-altitude.
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Wes hadn't expected to end up at the center of something like this, his image appearing at the top of wire stories sent around the world, on the evening news, and even as the butt of jokes on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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Like other trends, popular fashion to some is the butt of jokes for others, like recent articles that poke fun at those that sport a coat with the recognizable red, white and blue logo patch, warning a Canada Goose coat "may keep you single."
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For many below a certain age, he's remembered as a bejeweled fixture on variety and talk shows, or as the one black member of Sinatra's Rat Pack — and as such the butt of jokes that would start an instant firestorm on social media today.
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Just when our nation needs more, not fewer good public spirited lawyers, the deteriorating image of the lawyer – often a butt of jokes or derision until you need one – has unfortunately helped to dissuade many of our nation's most talented and promising young people to pursue other professional endeavors.
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Today's Kazakhstan seemingly possesses the developmental self-assurance and stability to focus on building its reputation and legacy through measured self-promotion, instead of lashing out at fictitious characters that use the country as the cheap butt of jokes for audiences that know nothing about the country itself.
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The romance genre might be the butt of jokes for its sexy content and racy covers, but this particular practice was abhorred by the authors The Verge spoke to — it was just a little much, stepping too far outside the norms of the romance genre they all knew and loved.
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But by making comic books and the X-Men's origins the butt of jokes and having X-Men become such a success, Singer inadvertently set a new industry standard: The bright joy and earnest optimism of comic book superheroes was something to avoid on the big screen if movie studios and directors wanted to be taken seriously.
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Use the word at your peril: To some Newfoundlanders it is offensive, a vestige of the derision toward locals expressed by some American G.I.s stationed there during World War II. For decades stoic Newfoundlanders have endured national ridicule, the butt of jokes that cast residents of one of the country's more remote corners as bumpkins and dimwits.
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In recent years, writers like Adelle Waldman and filmmakers like Noah Baumbach have tried to capture both the rapidly-shifting metropolitan landscape (and what that means not just for rent and real estate but also for love and culture) and what it was like to grow up in, say, modern Park Slope before it was the butt of jokes about baby-strollers piloted by yuppies making six figures.
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GM is, after all, a company that went bankrupt just seven years ago and survived only with the help of a federal bailout; a company whose board of directors was described by President Obama's auto czar, Steven Rattner, as "utterly docile" in the face of impending disaster; a company that has been the butt of jokes about its lackluster, unreliable, macho cars for years; a company that churned out Hummers while Toyota gave us the Prius.
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