The anchors, feeling that the show was in its final weeks, also relaxed and they started joking around.

If you say it to me 500 times a day, in two days I start joking about it.

When Blackborow came to he was cheerful as anything and started joking directly.

They let me in on the secret quite early - then people started joking about it.

The moment you start joking, they respond to that.

"Princeton got creamed, and my father started joking with Nicole, telling her not to come back."

I wasn't about to start joking with the guys right off the bat.

But this narrative is one that repeats like a stage play, with exact phrases they soon learn well enough to start joking about.

"Hank started joking, 'When are you finally going to come work for us?' "

Now was the time when many of her patients, particularly the young ones on the football team, would start joking with her.