America was the scene of some of her best collaborative work, arguing and joshing with Merchant and Mr Ivory in the same apartment building, like siblings; in 1986 she took citizenship there.
But not even Mr McCain could resist joshing about Mr Romney's "landslide victory" the night before.
He was equally cool in the spotlight, joshing with Paul Newman and charming Greta Garbo in Hollywood, before becoming a regular with Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show".Behind the glassy smile there was, he assured people, yet more ice.
Moreover, this particular star, joshing with the press and waving to the fans, is 58, even older than Mick Jagger.
By making you feel you are there, joshing with the kids and sloshing in the ditches of the back streets of Nairobi, he pushes aside a generation of pristine European films about Africa, and reaches back to one of the finest films of the past two decades, Claire Denis's 1988 memoir, "Chocolat".
Dear Lupin, Michael Simkins's adaptation of Roger Mortimer's novel Dear Lupin: Letters to a Wayward Son (2012), provided an opportunity for James and Jack Fox, real-life father and son, to bring to life the very English middle-class correspondence, with the father alternately joshing and chiding his son onstage.
This season, as a marvellous and meddlesome Prospero, he's found another way of joshing the perils of outdoors: low-flying, tourist-toting helicopters are the new threat, and if they come anywhere near his big speeches, he invents a great ruminative pause, winces for England, and re-charges the poetry with sarcastic splendour.
While the five misfits are joshing around, Ronan is trying to get his hands on the Orb, an all-powerful energy source that will enable him to control the universe and even to topple the mighty Thanos.
Even in the heat of battle, Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man is joshing away in his usual wiseacre fashion.
This merry joshing continued as we looked out across this remarkable place.
Two women appear in the game — one a tanned Aussie with black unruly bangs and sparkly eyes, who wears a red crop-top shirt that we see a lot of, and the other an old flame of Nate's, an American journalist with Jennifer Aniston hair pulled back — both of them joshing and likable.
