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Love you, granddad" and posted another jokey picture of a Christmas card he had sent his dad showing an unborn baby saying: "I'm waiting."

"The only thing that has changed since last week's Stage 3 vote on the Public Health Bill is a single off-the-cuff remark in a jokey final plenary session.

Using Hurricane Sandy and some choice jokey tweets about last year's storm, researchers chronicled the points at which the funniness of it all crested, fell, and, after a safe distance, became both funny and not funny once again.

The fact it was such a quiet show only added to the atmosphere and, although he tried hard, he was better off keeping the jokey banter to a minimum and concentrating on the music.

Gentle and folky, Molasses Creek is one of those bands that drip with a sort of warm Americana - vibrant fiddles, charming, sometimes jokey lyrics sung to a knee-slapping beat and delivered with aplomb and finesse.

(10pm) Betty finds herself in hot water when a jokey press release is sent out by mistake.

The editor of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage offered "Laddy" as a jokey alternative, admitting that there was no provision on the books for this eventuality.

The arbitrariness of the windows now looks fashionable, based as it is on the functional requirements of the pigs and/or the farmer rather than a jokey translation of ordinariness.

The book is full of these exquisitely painful moments, but they are offset and even intensified by the jokey light notes of such farce as Geoff Kemp's "Footy Poem," or Stephen Lawrence's "Partnershipping." The editors do a very good job of balancing the intense and touching with light parody, creating a very pleasurable anthology for the reader.

Though he scores easy laughs with found footage of the president's syntactical buffoonery, his jokey song cues ("Vacation" when Bush goes on vacation, "Cocaine" when his past is discussed) come off as ham-fisted and predictable.

THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM (1988): Quite possibly the best movie Hammer Studios never made, this Ken Russell keeper strikes a perfect tone between jokey and jumpy.

The more serious builders resented the jokey, wrestling-style commentary with which their competition was presented.

Some are jokey, like the short snippet "Menitations" where four men in headstands, with just their upended faces lit, lip-sync the Eastern-sounding music.

COLLEAGUE Rodney Masters yesterday had a pop at commentators who are not averse to throwing in the odd jokey one-liner, writes Bruce Millington.