Her second husband, Pere Milà, was a developer who was criticized for his flamboyant lifestyle and ridiculed by the contemporary residents of Barcelona, when they joked about his love of money and opulence, wondering if he was not rather more interested in " the widow ’ s guardiola " ( piggy bank ), than in " Guardiola ’ s widow ".

Making no secret of his own disability, Capp openly joked about his prosthetic leg his whole life.

In one famous incident in 1997, Anderson interviewed the Bee Gees, and throughout the interview he repeatedly joked about their life and career, ultimately prompting them to walk out.

While he was a devout Muslim who could recite the Koran, he was opposed to fanaticism and joked freely about Islam.

This was shortly after the release of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, about which he joked stating that, since he views the entire Star Wars series as one film, he could actually receive the award now that he had finally " gone back and finished the movie.

He valiantly fought the pain and joked about his immobility: " Put me in the dumbwaiter and I'll ride down to the first floor in style.

However, he joked about it at the press conference saying, " It's a bit like Ben Hur.

The Tenth Doctor joked about the Fifth Doctor's lack of sonic screwdriver in the mini-episode Time Crash, commenting that he " went hands-free " and could " save the universe using a kettle and some string.

Waits has steadfastly refused to allow the use of his songs in commercials and has joked about other artists who do ( commenting " If Michael Jackson wants to work for Pepsi, why doesn't he just get himself a suit and an office in their headquarters and be done with it ?").

John von Neumann cautioned about the misinterpretation of a PRNG as a truly random generator, and joked that " Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

A member of the Labour Party's " soft left ," Wilson joked about leading a cabinet that was made up mostly of social democrats, comparing himself to a Bolshevik revolutionary presiding over a Tsarist cabinet, but there was arguably little to divide him ideologically from the cabinet majority.

Nielsen joked about his view on golf, " I have no goals or ambition.

It is often joked about by Canadians as well, and is sometimes even a part of the national identity.

Many of her letters from that time on mentioned Christian Science, and letters from others to her joked about her efforts to convert peers to her beliefs.

Bernice is known to be something of a heavy drinker ; this has been joked about on at least one occasion ( in " Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment ", she faints upon reading the news that Prohibition has been introduced in Springfield ).

Before the war, in 1912, he had published the book The Good Soldier Švejk and other strange stories ( Dobrý voják Švejk a jiné podivné historky ) where the figure of Švejk appeared for the first time ; but it was only after the war in his famous novel that Švejk became a sancta simplicitas, a cheerful idiot who joked about the war as if it were a tavern brawl.

Clemenceau often joked about the " assassin's " bad marksmanship – “ We have just won the most terrible war in history, yet here is a Frenchman who misses his target 6 out of 7 times at point-blank range.

A few years later when Bush made his first official visit to Canada as President, he joked during a speech, " I told Minister Paul that I really have only one regret about this visit to Canada.

He recounted, and joked to the audience about, the tales of his childhood, his career, the influence of his mother, Sadie, his time as a Bevin Boy, about Diana Dors, who had recently died, and Tommy Cooper, who had died of a heart attack live on stage six weeks earlier while appearing on television.

It is often joked about how Mr. Feeny followed them throughout their education.

In a 1969 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Gobel joked about his stateside service, " There was not one Japanese aircraft got past Tulsa.

" Letterman described her as the Dolly Parton and Loni Anderson of Puerto Rico and joked about proposing to her.

The characters of the story joked about the coincidental name of the city.

Toughill and Ali disliked each other, and prior to the fight Toughill joked about Ali.

" This was apparently a tribute to the famously macabre jest made by Henry's French-educated second wife, Anne Boleyn, who had joked before her death that the executioner would find killing her easy because she had " a little neck.

Before his death, Jin supposedly joked, " Being beheaded is the most painful thing, but for some reason it's going to happen to me.

He joked on the DVD commentary for The Keeper of Traken ( which was recorded shortly before his death ) that he didn't like the three rings of marriage: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the bickering.

Mátyás Rákosi later joked that the revolution's Jewish leaders took the gentile Garbai in so that they would have somebody to sign the death sentences on Saturdays.

" On The Daily Show, Jon Stewart joked about the dissonance between the song's progressive history and DeLay's conservative politics, saying, " If Tom DeLay actually had a hammer, he would bludgeon Pete Seeger to death.

The Prime Minister paid his respects to the Buddhist monks, strode rapidly among the houses, joked with the local soldiery, and made a speech.

Bismarck was discarded (" dropping the pilot " in the words of the famous Punch cartoon ), promoted to the rank of " Colonel-General with the Dignity of Field Marshal " ( so-called because the German Army did not appoint full Field Marshals in peacetime ) and given a new title, Duke of Lauenburg, which he joked would be useful when travelling incognito.

In a March 2007 appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, Abdul joked that her scrutinized behavior was caused by her being " abducted by aliens.

There is an anecdote that Shaka joked with one of his friends, Magaye, that he could not kill Magaye because he would be laughed at.

To her friends, Caroline joked that she had indeed committed adultery once — with the husband of Mrs. Fitzherbert, the King.

" The following day, on 15 July, Tatiana and her sisters appeared in good spirits as they joked with one another and moved the beds in their room so visiting cleaning women could scrub the floor.

Some critics doubted that Charlotte could support an NBA team ; one Sacramento Bee columnist joked, " The only franchise Charlotte is going to get is one with golden arches.

Vonnegut later joked in a speech, published in the collection Fates Worse Than Death, that " Ever since that word was published, way back in 1969, children have been attempting to have intercourse with their mothers.

She joked it wasn't twinned with any town but did have a suicide pact with Dagenham.

This " double personality " was also joked in the second season, when Jack introduced himself as: " It's " O ' Neill ," with two L's.

Pegg had joked that a hypothetical third series would end with a Blake's 7 style shoot-out.

Pope Benedict joked with them, saying, " Well, today I gave you the red hat, but soon it will be white for one of you.

Originally, his hair was simply very greasy and unkempt, but another cast member joked offstage that the height of the hair seemed to increase with each performance.

This echoed his attacks on Major's government which he had made before the 1992 election while still shadow chancellor, most memorably when he attacked Tory plans for cutting income tax to 20 % as " irresponsible " and joked at a Labour Party rally in Sheffield that the Tories would have a box office disaster with " Honey, I Shrunk the Economy "-in reference to the recent Disney motion picture Honey, I Shrunk the Kids-mocking the recession which was plaguing the British economy at the time.

He made light of his similarities with film actor Danny DeVito, who he joked would play him in a film about his life.

After a long affair with the romance novelist Elinor Glyn, Curzon married in 1917 the former Grace Elvina Hinds, the wealthy Alabama-born widow of Alfred Hubert Duggan ; in later years wags joked that despite his political disappointments Curzon still enjoyed " the means of Grace ".

The group reminisced, joked with the audience and accepted their award before performing a rendition of their hit songs.

At the time, Don Cholito joked that he had invented a contraption, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) ( which in reality does not do meteorological work ), what reportedly took the wind out of major hurricanes and either deflated them or veered them off course as to not hit Puerto Rico.

And, as the show landed a pair of Emmy Awards in that first year ( the show itself, for Best Kinescope Show ; and, Berle as Most Outstanding Kinescoped Personality ), Uncle Miltie ( he first called himself by that name ad-libbing at the end of a 1949 broadcast ) joked, preened, pratfell, danced, costumed, and clowned his way to stardom, with Americans discovering television as a technological marvel and entertainment medium seeming to bring the country to a dead stop every Tuesday night, just to see what the madcap Berle might pull next.

Almost every place they went when accompanied by Eugene Cernan, if a band was present the song " Fly Me To The moon " was played-when they visited Disney Park they enjoyed the ride Trip To The Moon, than joked with the US Astronauts that they went to Disney Land and not the moon.

It was joked that the king of Denmark had brought the cold weather with him.

Almost every place they went when accompanied by Eugene Cernan, if a band was present the song " Fly Me To The moon " was played-when they visited Disney Park they enjoyed the ride Trip To The Moon, than joked with the US Astronauts that they went to Disney Land and not the moon.

The demonic voice of Gozer was provided by Paddi Edwards, supposedly after Bill Murray joked that the line " choose and perish " sounded like " Jews and berries " when spoken with Jovan's Slavic accent.