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They ’ll think it’s funny or they ’ll think it’s a joke, then I ’ll point and say, ‘ Look, my name’s on the bag. I ’m not joking with you. – Happy Gilmore	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s terrible, just joking, I’d say I’ll go out there and put a hose [in it] running right back to my house. – Benjamin Cuevas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis, [Russian leader Vladimir Putin] is not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological and chemical weapons because his military is, you might say, significantly underperforming. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
[Putin was] not joking when he talks about the use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons. we have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We have the best time whenever we work together, especially in our Jergens commerical. We’re always joking around and laughing. It’s a really special experience. – Judd Apatow	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
There was no conflict or confrontations at all. We were about 10 guys, give or take, walking around, laughing and joking with the journalists, we were not afraid of anything. We didn't expect anything would happen, because when we saw journalists around, we thought it'd be a safe area. – Salim Awad	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They’re making judgement calls based on your motives and who you’re joking about, whether or not your jokes really count as jokes or if they count as hate speech, that’s this tricky area that we’re landing in doing comedy as conservatives whose views simply differ from the popular narrative. – Seth Dillon	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I'm not joking when I say this : If Joe Biden're ever working with me and I hear Joe Biden treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise Joe Biden I will fire Joe Biden on the spot. On the spot. No if, ands or buts. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm not joking about this. Imagine being a parent looking at a child, and you can't afford -- you have no house to borrow against, you have no savings. It's wrong. But all the things in that bill are going to reduce prices and costs for middle class and working class people. It's going to reduce their costs. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Of course, I also love giving gifts, and when I was working on ‘The Five,’ we did a Secret Santa gift exchange, the best gift I ever gave during that period was for Jesse Watters. A segment of the show was called ‘Facebook Friday,’ and someone asked us via Facebook what was one gift we really wanted at Christmas that we never received. Jesse mentioned that he'd wanted a red leather Michael Jackson jacket. I had drawn Jesse's name and was joking that I would get that jacket for him. – Dana Perino	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Peyton is my friend, a great quarterback, a great competitor, but there’s gonna always be a lot of talk about that rivalry, whether it’s him joking about we had it bugged or this-gate or that-gate… But Peyton is great. I think his analysis is funny, his wit is awesome. I enjoy listening to him. – The Buccaneers	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
( Ahmadi) was the same, like the past -- just joking, talking with each other, laughing. – Emal Ahmadi	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He's joking about violence towards Speaker Pelosi. – Nicolle Wallace	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He started becoming violent, he was very much anti-Semitic. He would say like all types of Jewish jokes. I thought he was joking at first and then I started to see seriousness in his comments. – Eric Valiente	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I was joking that you could offer to let the tourists cut the long lobster roll lines in Maine in the summer if they got vaccinated, i think if we take that kind of attitude and get enough vaccines to people, we actually could get to the right level to make this severe disease that has been completely debilitating from a societal and economic perspective, to something that is not eradicated, but that is something more akin to the common cold, which becomes more manageable. – Samuel Scarpino	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It’s huge for us, man, it was fun to be out there. We were laughing, playing hard, joking around. We were loose. We had fun. Everybody got in, so that was cool. – Bruce Brown	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We were kind of joking around that if one of us suddenly disappears, then the rest of us make a run for it. – Bret Hutchings	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
She's been here by herself for over 10 years, so I'm sure it's a big change for her, but she's warmed up to everybody, she's so happy, she's got all types of new friends. She's out here making lunch for us, laughing, joking. It's just a miracle to witness. – John Kinney	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I asked him (Brunel), which was my bedroom and he said oh, you sleep in my bed. I thought he was joking, but in the end, I had to sleep on the floor of another girls room. Every day he kept saying we must have sex, there was a lot of harassment, every day, I kept telling myself to leave, it didnt feel right, and I still hate myself that I didnt leave. – Courtesy Zoe Brock -RRB- Huisman	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
She was joking with people at the birthday party, she said I may have Covid-19, and lo and behold, she did. – Lisa Derderian	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I have been looking forward to this for weeks. I was joking with my friends that I would be the first out in Madrid. – Charlotte Fraser-Prynne	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Guys, I was joking, of course... i said Rafa had a back injury from the pressure of playing on the PS4. We might need some sense of humour please! – Feliciano Lopez	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Wow, that is a little unsettling, got to clarify this. The president was not joking in his remarks yesterday. – Neil Cavuto	Found on CNN 4 years ago
And folks, I wasn't joking : Amy Klobuchar won all of the debates. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 4 years ago

They ’ll think it’s funny or they ’ll think it’s a joke, then I ’ll point and say, ‘ Look, my name’s on the bag. I ’m not joking with you.

– Happy Gilmore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s terrible, just joking, I’d say I’ll go out there and put a hose [in it] running right back to my house.

– Benjamin Cuevas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis, [Russian leader Vladimir Putin] is not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological and chemical weapons because his military is, you might say, significantly underperforming.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

[Putin was] not joking when he talks about the use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons. we have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We have the best time whenever we work together, especially in our Jergens commerical. We’re always joking around and laughing. It’s a really special experience.

– Judd Apatow

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There was no conflict or confrontations at all. We were about 10 guys, give or take, walking around, laughing and joking with the journalists, we were not afraid of anything. We didn't expect anything would happen, because when we saw journalists around, we thought it'd be a safe area.

– Salim Awad

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They’re making judgement calls based on your motives and who you’re joking about, whether or not your jokes really count as jokes or if they count as hate speech, that’s this tricky area that we’re landing in doing comedy as conservatives whose views simply differ from the popular narrative.

– Seth Dillon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm not joking when I say this : If Joe Biden're ever working with me and I hear Joe Biden treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise Joe Biden I will fire Joe Biden on the spot. On the spot. No if, ands or buts.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm not joking about this. Imagine being a parent looking at a child, and you can't afford -- you have no house to borrow against, you have no savings. It's wrong. But all the things in that bill are going to reduce prices and costs for middle class and working class people. It's going to reduce their costs.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Of course, I also love giving gifts, and when I was working on ‘The Five,’ we did a Secret Santa gift exchange, the best gift I ever gave during that period was for Jesse Watters. A segment of the show was called ‘Facebook Friday,’ and someone asked us via Facebook what was one gift we really wanted at Christmas that we never received. Jesse mentioned that he'd wanted a red leather Michael Jackson jacket. I had drawn Jesse's name and was joking that I would get that jacket for him.

– Dana Perino

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Peyton is my friend, a great quarterback, a great competitor, but there’s gonna always be a lot of talk about that rivalry, whether it’s him joking about we had it bugged or this-gate or that-gate… But Peyton is great. I think his analysis is funny, his wit is awesome. I enjoy listening to him.

– The Buccaneers

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

( Ahmadi) was the same, like the past -- just joking, talking with each other, laughing.

– Emal Ahmadi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He's joking about violence towards Speaker Pelosi.

– Nicolle Wallace

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He started becoming violent, he was very much anti-Semitic. He would say like all types of Jewish jokes. I thought he was joking at first and then I started to see seriousness in his comments.

– Eric Valiente

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was joking that you could offer to let the tourists cut the long lobster roll lines in Maine in the summer if they got vaccinated, i think if we take that kind of attitude and get enough vaccines to people, we actually could get to the right level to make this severe disease that has been completely debilitating from a societal and economic perspective, to something that is not eradicated, but that is something more akin to the common cold, which becomes more manageable.

– Samuel Scarpino

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It’s huge for us, man, it was fun to be out there. We were laughing, playing hard, joking around. We were loose. We had fun. Everybody got in, so that was cool.

– Bruce Brown

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We were kind of joking around that if one of us suddenly disappears, then the rest of us make a run for it.

– Bret Hutchings

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

She's been here by herself for over 10 years, so I'm sure it's a big change for her, but she's warmed up to everybody, she's so happy, she's got all types of new friends. She's out here making lunch for us, laughing, joking. It's just a miracle to witness.

– John Kinney

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I asked him (Brunel), which was my bedroom and he said oh, you sleep in my bed. I thought he was joking, but in the end, I had to sleep on the floor of another girls room. Every day he kept saying we must have sex, there was a lot of harassment, every day, I kept telling myself to leave, it didnt feel right, and I still hate myself that I didnt leave.

– Courtesy Zoe Brock -RRB- Huisman

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

She was joking with people at the birthday party, she said I may have Covid-19, and lo and behold, she did.

– Lisa Derderian

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I have been looking forward to this for weeks. I was joking with my friends that I would be the first out in Madrid.

– Charlotte Fraser-Prynne

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Guys, I was joking, of course... i said Rafa had a back injury from the pressure of playing on the PS4. We might need some sense of humour please!

– Feliciano Lopez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Wow, that is a little unsettling, got to clarify this. The president was not joking in his remarks yesterday.

– Neil Cavuto

Found on CNN
4 years ago

And folks, I wasn't joking : Amy Klobuchar won all of the debates.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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