"Yes, the Watford fans will want to see success," he joked shortly after signing.
Mr. Bush himself was comfortable enough to joke shortly afterward about his trouble wrapping his tongue around the names of world leaders.
"I mean, yeah, it's 'Easy A,'" she joked, shortly after receiving word of her nom in the Globes' actress in a motion picture comedy/musical category.
Every afternoon before the show, Mendez transcribes a draft of jokes for Letterman's two-thirty meeting with two of his writers, Bill Scheft and Gabe Abelson, then prepares a final batch — the monologue usually contains eight to ten jokes — shortly before the program is taped, at five-thirty.
When I interviewed Mandela a few months after the bee incident, shortly before his eightieth birthday, I asked him why he had told me, particularly given that he had joked, soon after, that I had "exposed him to the world".
In the past few years he has weathered storms over jokes about Paralympic athletes, Down's syndrome children, and his grandparents dying in a car crash (a joke made shortly after the M5 pile-up).
Manning, shortly after his admission, insisted he was joking.
Shortly thereafter, my husband and I were in our bedroom talking and joking about the night when they returned.
Shortly before her opening match at Wimbledon last week, the Spanish player Garbiñe Muguruza sent a joking text to her compatriot Conchita Martínez, who won the tournament in 1994.
