Students jokingly asked their professor if he wanted to get them killed.
The reporter jokingly asked if she was on her way to a date.
Now, military analysts jokingly ask each other if they expect to keep their jobs much longer.
When a young Republican jokingly asked whether he could still make some calls to potential voters, no one laughed.
She once jokingly asked me what it was like on the London tube.
At one point, the man jokingly asks if they think he gets the cups and ice for nothing.
My neighbor on the other side of the fence jokingly asked me who I was talking to.
He jokingly asked the audience of 10,000 people to stand still and help him look for a lost contact lens.
After the game, somebody jokingly asked Jordan about the chance that he would retire again during the season.
After getting his only series hit, Winfield jokingly asked for the ball.