Word: jocular
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Marsalis began the evening with a characteristically unequivocal statement of his mission: "We came here to swing." With his irrepressibly jocular style, he described the LCJO's commitment to the music of Duke Ellington while carefully distinguishing the group from a repertory band. Though the evening was devoted to Ellington's music, Marsalis declined to term it a tribute. Rather, he explained, they just believe in playing his music. He ended his preface to the first set with some comments on the past few weeks on the road, offering a somewhat elusive remark about how this had been the "antebellum...
...team was also fooling around in a rather jocular manner. The Elis, who seemed to walk into the match expecting to lose, even got in on the act. Here's one interaction between two Elis--sophomore Pepper Riley and junior David Hand--and Harvard freshman Jeff Blumberg...
...their funding. With this fluffy little book, as indeed with all her projects, she seems determined to knock over as many sacred cows as she can lay her hands on--and have a jolly good time, to boot! Good for her. But Enough is Enough, a slim volume of jocular ripostes interspersed with Finley's childlike line drawings, is the most standard and facile anti-establishment fare imaginable...
Lodge subtly and humorously paints the characters in Paradise News. Particularly, the minor characters manage to achieve some sort of depth within the limited scope of their roles in the book. Harold Best's victimized angst and Brian Everthorpe's jocular callousness escape being caricatures without losing humor...
Funny Wordplay: Celery cuts. Roll models. Oil of Ole. Either ore. Jocular straps. Gambling through the woods. Getting chaste around a convent. Serving alcohol to miners. Javerbaum and Rosetti dig this kind of joke. Don't like puns? Stay home...