The author of two books of poetry won the Pamet River Prize in 2015 and hosts the Poetry Gods podcast with Jon Sands and José Olivarez, where she conducts lighthearted interviews with contemporary poets.
"I'm so happy I can be the first Chinese player to come to a final — I always do the first one!" she said in a lighthearted, courtside interview in which she joked about losing sleep on the eve of the match because her coach-husband Shan Jiang was snoring.
Mr. Shearer breaks up his narrative with lighthearted if poignant interviews with local residents.
It recalls with dismay the day, in 2004, when the Conservative party conference broadcast a series of "lighthearted talking-head interviews" with senior politicians, thus alerting the world to Dr Liam Fox's love of Scissor Sisters and the possibility that, at some point in the past, Michael Ancram may well have punched the air to Meat Loaf.
More striking yet, he continued, was Mr. Malvo's lighthearted attitude during the interview.
For the most part, his interview was lighthearted, but when he was asked how he thought the fight would go, he became serious.
Since taking over the show as co-host in 1985, Mr. Gambling had continued the tradition of news, interviews and lighthearted talk that began with his grandfather during the early days of radio.
Each of the slickly produced short videos features Mr. Bugnah on camera, narrating the reports and interacting with his interview subjects in a lighthearted but impassioned style not unlike that of the American filmmaker Michael Moore.
Ms. Pirro showed a lighthearted side, too, making hummus for the interview and autographing a photo of her and a reporter.
While Mr. Ryan played the hammer of Thor, pounding President Obama in unusually caustic terms, Mr. Romney allowed a lighthearted, humanizing glimpse of himself in an interview for ABC's "Live!" morning show.
