He made some jocular remarks.
Trust in John Whittingdale, the culture secretary, has not been bolstered by jocular remarks envisaging the BBC's demise as "a tempting prospect".
To compound the wretched impression he was making, Mr Berlusconi also made a series of rambling, jocular remarks about the delights of Italy as a tourist destination and the excellence of Italian television.
His jocular remark drew appreciative laughter.
I had given Elinor Burkett (June15) too much credit when I made what I thought was a jocular remark about being an old man.
When Mr. Cheney recoiled, Mr. Leahy made a jocular remark, on the order of, "What, so you won't talk with Democrats?" The vice president is said to have replied that he did not appreciate Mr. Leahy's personal attacks on him.
In his testimony, Judge Bybee said that remark was meant as "a jocular comment".
In jocular, yet pointed remarks, he said that he would not, in fact, retire to a penthouse apartment in Paris; that he did not play Mozart sonatas for friends on the baby grand at his residence behind St . Patricks Cathedral; that he does not dine frequently at "Upper East Side gourmet eateries"; and that he was not against continuing the rule of celibacy for priests.
Picador, 127 pp., £7.99, September, 0 330 41993 5 The possession and use of a toothbrush was a mark of the difference between us and them, gentry and peasant, or so Lady Gregory suggested when she made the remark - jocular, perhaps, and not the sort of sally she would have chosen to be remembered by.
However, subsequent investigations suggested Hunt had intended his remarks to be jocular, and many of the claims of St Louis – who runs a postgraduate course in science journalism at City University London – about her own professional credentials were called into question.
Mr. Cuomo, in a pink short-sleeve button-up shirt and chinos, was in a jocular mood: he punctuated his remarks by telling the crowd that after getting Republicans and Democrats to work together in Albany this year, he planned to raise the bar and "try to get G.M. guys and Ford guys to work together".
