Garcia, her sister said, used to always tell them jokingly: “I would rather be dead than to show up looking humble.”

Mack typically rests on Wednesdays, recovering in the training room during what his teammates jokingly call “spa days.”

In her “CBS Mornings” interview, Jackson also jokingly recalled outperforming Matt Damon when they were scene partners in a drama class.

The director says he and his wife would jokingly say “good morning” to the security guards who might be listening when they woke up.

After later federal record requests turned up an email in which then–NIH Director Francis Collins called the authors “fringe epidemiologists,” Bhattacharya embraced the term, jokingly describing his own views as “fringe.”