Mockery: scornfully contemptuous ridicule; derision. As Cornelius Plantinga phrases it in Not the Way It's Supposed to Be, "mockery takes dead aim at our staunchest natural defense and tries to blow it away. Mockery aims to shred human dignity and therefore to despoil its victim in a specially devastating way."
Satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary issues.
Good comedy is not mockery; it is satire. The line is terribly thin and mostly has to do with the subject matter.
Tonight, informal, you disappointed me. To be fair, you had beautiful satire on gossip in the church and a hilarious sketch about Scooby Doo that took us back to our living rooms from third grade, but the moment you thought schizophrenia was funny was the moment you moved from comedy to mockery and the moment you stripped dignity from a set of people who bear the image of God.
You should be ashamed of yourselves.
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