At the show, as performers stepped to the stage, she recalled joking to Becky Berstler, a friend who joined her for support: "Is it him?
She recalled joking with the mayor before his speech.
"The F.B.I. been roughing you up?" Dr. Byrne recalled joking.
Once, the friend recalled, joking with Mr. Zamzam, he told him, "You Muslims believe in killing anyone who doesn't believe like you".
Over the years, Clyde Jr. brought Adidas America and Old Navy on board, though even with additional financial support from political and community outlets, Clyde Sr .recalled joking with his son two days before he died, "Someday, we'll get out of the red".
Later, Mr. Libby said, he recalled joking at a White House meeting with Marc Grossman, a State Department official involved in the earlier contretemps, about the trip to Niger by Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador who was emerging as a public scourge of the Bush administration.
"I remember joking with Moisés," she recalled.
I recall the jokes in high school about epileptics hoping my nervous laugh would not give me away; I was afraid that soon the dots would be connected to me.
With the search for one of the killed workers' bodies still under way, Maher joked, as I recall, that the people should check their loaves of Wonder Bread.
I recall the old Soviet joke, "My neighbor has a cow.
