tongue-in-cheek

Obviously, much of this is tongue-in-cheek, but there's a serious point here.

A spokesperson for Moreno said at the time of the initial blowback that the businessman made the comment as a "tongue-in-cheek joke about how Sherrod Brown and members of the left-wing media like to pretend the only issue that matters to women voters is abortion."

Years ago, the writer Arianna Huffington and the comedian Harry Shearer launched the tongue-in-cheek initiative the Partnership for a Poll-Free America.

Before the last parliamentary election, in 2021, Andre got the chance to don his detective’s fedora again, but this time his job was to grill various politicians on their policies in his tongue-in-cheek style.

It’s kind of mock advertising but very tongue-in-cheek.