Yes, definitely! They did not really inquire out of interest, but being convinced in truth of their fallacious doctrine that there is neither afterlife of soul (Acts 23:8) of a deceased man, nor the resurrection of bodies, they wanted to make Christ a laughingstock by their *reductio ad absurdum* argument intertwined in their conceited and smug rhetorical question.

However, when somebody adopts an irony, or its acute form, sarcasm, against any idea or teaching, then this somebody should hold truth, which is the legitimate foundation of the irony and sarcasm. But when you are sarcastic against Truth Himself and His teaching, then, of course you will be crushed and become a laughingstock yourself, as indeed those poor Sadducees became.