"If I'm like a virgin, Ricky, why don't you come over here and do something about it," joked the pop star turned director.

The Oscar-winning director joked: 'At my age it's a bugger trying to remember the lines.'

The director joked he was "endlessly throwing a net over Crispin because he was completely off about fifty percent of the time in his interpretation of the character".

The other director, Scott McGehee, joked, "It's nice to unconsciously become part of the zeitgeist."

"How bizarre; it sounds just like Walter Cronkite," the theatrical director in the control room, ETHAN McSWEENY, joked.

Mr. Spano's director of communications, Susan Tolchin, jokes that Mr. Schwartz falls somewhere between the characters of Leo and Josh in the show.

Former storyboard artist and creative director for the series Adam Muto joked that the change was made due to the famous Beatles song of the same name.

During the Venice Film Festival the cast and director joked with journalists about the possibility of an American remake with Clive Owen and Naomi Watts in the main roles.

The launching director, Jim Harrington, joked that the shuttle was "a little slow," missing its liftoff target by 42 milliseconds by the official clock.

Columbia's athletic director, John Reeves, joked early in yesterday's game that he was waiting for a torrential downpour; after all, the Lions had shut out Princeton last week in monsoon-like conditions.