The idea is to make the theme and episodes part of a flowing continuum rather than to heighten the return by jokey or dramatic preparation.
She wanted a dad who was more 'friendly and jokey', like her friends' dads.
His explorations of the perceptual effects of scale are sometimes jokey, sometimes profound, but always refreshing and unpretentious.
Male senders are less common, but fathers working hundreds of miles from home greet their children, and jokey brothers indulge the collecting or star-worshipping manias of their sisters.
He amused us all very much by treating it as a jokey subject, but the whole idea of capital punishment is quite obscene.
It was slightly jokey—as most of his speeches are—but it was extraordinarily shallow.
There is a good, jokey picture on the front.
He professed to prefer the interests of the victim to—and again he said it in his jokey way—the antenatal history of the of fender.
