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Usage for jocular


They're both serious and kinda not, with songs addressing weighty issues sitting alongside the jocular 25 Stations, featuring comedian Greg Fleet and droll lines such as ''she sits next to a slick young man/he dresses how he votes'' and the jaunty, ...

Mark Haines, the gruff, jocular CNBC anchor died unexpectedly in his sleep last night. Of all the anchors and personalities on CNBC, I enjoyed him the most. He was a gruff skeptic at heart. During the height of the financial crisis, he was not afraid ...

Photo by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com “We worked really hard for this,” said a typically jocular Doe from the stage at the start of the hour-plus set of 22 songs. “We practiced THREE WHOLE HOURS last night,” he explained, just before the three ...

O'Clery swapped anecdotes with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, Kathryn Thomas delivered excited updates from an audibly windswept Dublin airport and Murray fired out jocular asides. “It would be a tragedy if the sun was shining,” the presenter ...

... boiled away many of the pleasures previously associated with comedy — first among these, jokes themselves — and replaced them with a different kind of lure: the appeal of spending two hours hanging out with a loose and jocular gang of goofy bros. ...


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