When I started to like him, I was like, 'That's it, I've got to crack this guy's shell open.' My first question was, 'What's your passion?' " Mr. Rohlich said: "She was the first person to get me to open up.
Another cracked, "That guy looks like an a--hole".
When the racist insults came from the mouth of an opponent, I had a ready response: I would crack the guy's skull".
This was just one of those casual, offhand, fake-cynical cracks guys like to make but it took on some weight and poignancy when our friend, Bob Jones, died suddenly, just before Christmas.
Then after the game, he would be the guy cracking most of the jokes on the bus ride home.
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Everyone else has the good sense to duck out but no, this Canadian is too nice and suffers through ten minutes of this guy cracking jokes about the soap.
"Two guys cracking one-liners at each other".
Kevin Spacey's visit to The Late Show was charming, and it featured the kind of interview Letterman is best suited for: two middle-aged guys cracking jokes and talking the ins and outs of their industry.
