"Maybe I'll start throwing his name around later this year, " she jokes.
She jokes that Editor A owns her right side and Editor B her left, and some days she feels like she is being stretched both ways.
"This year my aims are to see The Gossip, I'd really like to see Peaches, um, Geldof, obviously, " she jokes, referring to the raunchy Canadian electroclash singer.
She, like Juan, feels an affinity with the colours of her adopted homeland: Isabelle's hair is gathered round her face in soft, red curls and she jokes that her scalp has soaked up the shades of the soil.
In the 2005 film, it is Chatsworth Keira Knightley that is referring to when she jokes that her love for Darcy dates from her "first seeing his grounds at Pemberley, " but Austen expert Janet Todd, of Cambridge University's Lucy Cavendish College, says this is a mistake.
"She is so full of life and spirit and she loves playing jokes on people and she likes to keep you on your toes, but musically I have never met anyone who can walk out on stage and consistently sing as in tune and proper and right as Dolly Parton does, " her sometime duet partner Kenny Rogers told CNN.
She could see him telling his little jokes, she could see how charming he would seem to the girl, who would be young and bright and eager to please.
Mom is making a tremendous recovery (her color is great, she is wiggling fingers and toes and laughing at our jokes) and she might move out of cardiac care soon.
She thinks the DDR jokes that are still being told, for the most part in Western Germany, are embarrassing.
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But still, the expectant mother jokes that she would be an old lady before she could ever afford a home of her own in Beijing without government help.
She advocated "assertive multilateralism" in Bosnia, which meant joining forces with the U.N. to impose a peace, but when that fuzzy "ism" became the butt of jokes, she dropped it.
While Bella jokes that she's "not really into the whole cougar thing" regarding a guy two years her junior, her seemingly teenage vampire boyfriend is actually more than 100 years older than she is -- and that's not creepy at all?
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While she isn't 25 years old, blonde and eagerly willing to laugh at my stupid jokes, at least when she flirts with me I know it's for real.
Jim Carrey plays Joel and Kate Winslet plays Clementine (and, yes, she has heard all the jokes), who fall in love and out of love and back in love again.
Yet, during a recent gathering of girlfriends, she seemed to be the target of as many cougar jokes as Mariah Carey was in 2008 when she married Nick Cannon. (At 32, Cannon is a decade younger than the singer.) It probably didn't help that, at the start of their relationship, my friend's suitor couldn't legally accompany her to the bar.
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She still has the book of jokes her mother gave her, plus scrapbooks and photos of her mom, like those from her 1979 wedding.
My mom always jokes about how people thought she the grandmother of my brother (who is 10 years younger than me) because I was always toting him around and caring for him as a baby.
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It seems like only yesterday when Dodgers baseball coach Tommy Lasorda was hawking Slim-Fast, along with Whoopie Goldberg (until she was dropped in 2004 for making off-color jokes about George W. Bush) and model Rachel Hunter.
She gave her own televised "tea-party response" to Mr. Obama's 2011 State of the Union address, a moment that crystallized her distinctness from other House Republicans but also opened her to jokes on late-night TV, because she gave the speech with her eyes cast away from the camera.
"The really great jokes don't get into the file, " she told me.
"For me, if I've had a bad show, it's not because I hit a bum note it's because I told bad jokes and didn't connect with them, " she says.
Clinton was asked if she condoned personal criticisms her supporters have levied at Giuliani, such as jokes made about his appearance at last Monday's Broadway bash for Mrs.
Often she feels people underestimate the amount of preparation and time it takes to creating jokes and comedic routines.
She often returns to this elaborate card catalog to write notes on the cards with jokes that did well or poorly with audiences, and also to get new ideas on certain themes.
She remembers the little brother who loved playing pool, doing the jitterbug dance and telling jokes.
"There used to be jokes about how a Democrat in Texas was a moderate Republican in Connecticut, " she says.
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