jovial

“I hope people will see me and see a happy, jovial person who has the same heritage as them.”

José’s father, jovial, strong, always cracking jokes, landed in the hospital with a heart that doctors said was failing.

That sounds a lot like the way Carson lived, based on the way a 1978 New Yorker profile summed up the venerated host’s jovial froideur.

He indicated his background was to blame for those comments, as a former greengrocer from Peckham working in an environment that was "jovial and crude".

That lent a velveteen innocence to the jovial wreckage “The Osbournes” created and navigated almost constantly, although there were many times when what we saw clashed against the lighthearted sonic wallpaper.