Yet after a while it's clear to me how cannily Morris uses banter and the occasional verbal assault to keep his company alert.
Commending the poet's prose satires, Hugh MacDonald, editor of The Poems of Andrew Marvell (1952), writes: "In the place of the fierce attack in several of his satires he used banter or 'drolling', as it was then called, against his adversaries".
Personally, I got into them by listening to The Read, a show on which two black hosts discuss hip-hop and popular culture using irreverent banter and black vernacular.
Maybe the Six Degrees game is what the Bacon Brothers use for banter.
Throughout the session, the young men used jokes, banter and vivid storytelling to engage in the discussion-based activity and explore ideas about good and bad sex.
David Hammond used to say, 'Banter, banter is the curse of us all.'" Life in Mossbawn, in the Ulster countryside, is what gives Heaney his language and imagery - words like "braird", "seggans" and "sned", titles like A Hagging Match, The Haw Lantern, and Broagh, a placename almost impossible for an outsider to pronounce correctly.
Franklin went even further, using anti-Semitic banter to charm world leaders like Joseph Stalin who were known to fear and hate Jews.
Benjamin Nugent on how academic theory is used as flirtatious banter in novels by Jennifer Egan, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Ben Lerner.
I get the feeling she is becoming used to the banter of her fellow cast members.
There's also a sprinkling of one-liners — this is a woman who has been on television regularly for years and is used to public banter.
