He even made a little joke, noting the cardinals had gathered to pick a bishop of Rome "but have chosen one from far away – but here I am".
The TNT commentator Charles Barkley turned it into a joke, noting before the season, "I've always said I want my accountants from Princeton, not my offense".
ReprintsMr Bush did manage a self-deprecating joke, noting that the crowds along the route from the airport had been friendly enough to wave at him "with all five fingers" (as opposed to a ruder greeting with rather fewer).
I introduced myself to Jay and then began pacing around near the craft service table's sandwich platter, staring at my joke notes as if they might become sentient and just do the set for me.
It's is adorned with many "doodles", including a picture of Alf and a joking note that producer-engineer Ari Levine "hangs out with Jamaican drug lords on the reg".
"I barely got an adrenaline rush," he joked, noting the dog would await his owners at the S.P.C.A.
Set that image against another: O'Hara and Rivers, lovers at the time, sitting knee to knee as they worked on a series of jointly made lithographs, each adding drawings, jokes, notes to friends and poems like valentines.
"It took you long enough," Obama joked, noting that the team last won the series when Teddy Roosevelt was president.
"As vague as Xi's 'dream' might be, it has prompted mass public speculation, expectation and has even become the butt of political jokes," noted the South China Morning Post.
"The dog was a huge fan of 'White Fang' and had seen a lot of my earlier work," Hawke joked, noting the 1991 adaptation of the classic Jack London story he had appeared in, while also referring to his co-star as "an elite animal performer".
