Michael Allan Wolf for this faux populist NPR report in which he claims that all over the country university faculty members are gearing up to devote their existences to making fun of NASCAR.
I can honestly say that in all of my time in academia I doubt I heard a single joke about NASCAR. You actually have to be aware of something to make fun of it. Academics certainly can be elitist in ways both understandable and stupid, but they aren't obsessed with mocking the things they're elitist about. Usually they're obsessed with ignoring them.