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  • Unfortunately, it made everything else afterwards seem like a mickey-take as well.

    Rewind radio: Radioplayer; Ken Bruce; Jeremy Vine – review 2011

  • Sticking with the funny, Trey Parker and Matt Stone gave the US a new theme tune in 2004 with Team America: World Police, a seemingly never-ending mickey-take of everyone and everything in sight.

    The All-For-Noughts: Films of the Decade Adam Whitehead 2010

  • I agree that Verhoeven's STARSHIP TROOPERS is very good, but it was a mickey-take of the book and the right-wing mindset the book itself was also addressing.

    Roland Emmerich to film FOUNDATION trilogy Adam Whitehead 2010

  • Sticking with the funny, Trey Parker and Matt Stone gave the US a new theme tune in 2004 with Team America: World Police, a seemingly never-ending mickey-take of everyone and everything in sight.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Adam Whitehead 2010

  • That may be because the video is a mickey-take of certain fantasy authors who are rather full of themselves, and hence the mentioned books do not actually exist ;

    Exclusive Video Interview with R.L. McSterlingthong Adam Whitehead 2009

  • The ad industry is very self-refer/devourential but this one's a good mickey-take.

    The big beer ad Niki 2005

  • Shearer added: "I was with him and he was happy and joking and we were having a normal mickey-take like we do out of each other, and having a laugh and a joke about our golf trips and holidays that we went on together last year, and planning our next holiday in Portugal next summer with our families and kids."

    WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011

  • Shearer added: "I was with him and he was happy and joking and we were having a normal mickey-take like we do out of each other, and having a laugh and a joke about our golf trips and holidays that we went on together last year, and planning our next holiday in Portugal next summer with our families and kids."

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • The result Stateside is a mickey-take from David Letterman and a rebuke from a DJ in the rust belt town who has told the meddling Brit to stop infringing the right of freedom-loving Americans to eat themselves to death.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Anybody who's seen any of Baron's previous comedy, both Borat and Ali G, will know that he revels in the mickey-take interview.

    Kontraband Latest 2009

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