Often sitting in a studio in the dark for long stretches of time, they exchange personal stories and jokes to pass the time, and as a consequence, learn a great deal about each other in a short amount of time.
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"No one ever wants to talk to me, but they do it all the time, " jokes Reynolds.
The agents are a jovial lot, and spend a fair amount of time laughing and telling jokes.
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I've been telling jokes like this for a very long time, so the reaction surprised me.
Often she feels people underestimate the amount of preparation and time it takes to creating jokes and comedic routines.
He told jokes and appeared to have a great time.
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On the occasions when she spent the night with us, she would carry out her tasks in the house with renewed enthusiasm, insisting on dusting the bookshelves again, cleaning the bathrooms one more time, all the while cracking jokes at which no one laughed.
So despite all those lawyer jokes we love, we do need them from time to time.
My wife often jokes that if I spent the same amount of time on my career as I spend on the school we could afford to send all our children to Eton.
Between convention and the general election, crucial electioneering time, Bush was the butt of jokes on late night TV comedies on no less than 261 occasions, almost twice as many times as rival Kerry, according to figures from the Center for Media and Public Affairs.
In a style familiar from Mr. Sorkin's TV shows ("The West Wing") and movies ("The Social Network"), characters deliver lines in double time, tightly packed with earnest screeds, deadpan jokes and cultural references.
He jokes that he makes almost enough to cover his bills as a full-time cultural commentator, producer, podcaster, vlogger and host.
From that time onward, Itanium was a humiliation, the butt of industry jokes and a source of embarrassment to the analyst firms that predicted a large market for it.
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And the smokescreen appears to have worked as hockey fans, at least for the time being, have readily turned from blasting the league to making hipster jokes on Twitter.
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Time and daily routines have softened the communal grief as the workers carry on, trading jokes and gruff male banter.
This is not the time to consume a large amount of alcohol, discuss strong political or religious opinions, tell unflattering jokes, or reveal something inappropriately personal.
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