Hey Jonah, I’ve seen it a couple of times, and just watched it again to make sure I’m not missing anything. To me, it’s obvious that she meant to tell a joke. That’s not the reaction of someone surprised people are laughing. A colleague suggests that she was telling a feminist joke, about all the bad men she’s had to face down rather than about Bill in particular. That’s certainly seems possible to me too. As for her post-joke reaction, I’d say either, 1) On my colleague’s theory, she denied she was joking about Bill because she wasn’t joking about Bill; 2) On my original theory that she was indeed joking about Bill, she understandably felt uncomfortable saying it explicitly and so denied it.