I would joke with him in bed: 'What are you thinking of now?

There is a tendency to joke in situations like this.

That he could continue to joke in the face of what was going to happen to them tomorrow.

"They even joked about the doctor in not too flattering terms."

They knew he wasn't apt to joke in serious circumstances.

It would never do for him to joke with his superiors in public.

"He jokes around a lot, but always in the family style," she said.

Few men could have joked so with their cause in ruins around them.

"We used to joke in the beginning about things being on or off the record," Deb said.

He jokes in the play that it could explode at any time.