Cole laughingly notes "this may be naïve," an understatement whose ramifications spread through the whole show.
Tomalin is laughingly impatient with those who identify her with her subjects.
Macpherson's unwillingness to answer questions about phone hacking and the sacking of Ms Field have been laughingly contrasted with her insistence on talking about her favourite beauty products and "the lessons she's learned from suncare".
"The unwary would occasionally style Donald Dewar the father of the nation -- a title he laughingly disowned with customary self-deprecation," said Brian Taylor, the political editor of BBC Scotland.
A simple double espresso had taken on a racially offensive and violent nickname, and Starbucks was laughingly going along with it.
Among its other defining features, he adds, will be 'a strong international perspective, investigative stories given room to breathe, and long interviews at the top of the programme.' Asked if he still sees himself as the bolshy 'enemy within' at ITN, Snow laughingly replies, 'not with Jim Gray around - I'm no longer alone.
And though Ms. Wade laughingly denied any smooches with handsome building-mates who, perhaps, keep boxer-briefs in the refrigerator, she admitted that with the family away, even a full-time workweek can feel like a vacation.
Irwin laughingly shared the experience with the Queensland State of Origin squad before the 2006 series.
I, like a proper genius, asked him if he was mayor and he laughingly set me straight with a minimum of public humiliation.
In my interview with Meminger, he laughingly recalled that he and Monroe had "hung out all night before that game," which was played on a Sunday afternoon.
