funny
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The jokers Toth and Jackson, bless them, keep things endearing and funny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
And it obviously means the world to me when people say, oh my God, I laughed so much, that was funny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
“I think it’s really funny that we couldn’t meet in Miami or LA, but we could all somehow meet in Ibiza,” Anthea says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
“And then there’s some funny stuff too,” Dan explained, strutting around the store, with a sense of importance.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
For a guy who spent the majority of his life with a scowl permanently embedded on his face, how in the world was he possibly finding this funny?
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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Her early life story has more of the makings of a telenovela than the Sunday funnies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024
Did these two never read the funnies growing up?
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2024
It’s a little like TikTok but specifically for Netflix funnies.
From The Verge ● Oct. 4, 2021
As a boy, Mr. Cruse created theatrical shows and fell in love with the Sunday funnies, drawing his own cartoons about Landie Lucker, “the super elf.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 4, 2019
Mom comes downstairs and I’m reading the funnies and eating oatmeal.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Here Ms. Howden displays an instinctive wisdom of her own; sometimes, silence is funnier than anything you could say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Jokes about Twitch streamers getting paid to do nothing were funnier the first 1,000 times you saw them somewhere, and even then, they weren’t worth more than a passing snicker.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
He thinks the pre-taped sketches have been funnier than the live ones for the most part but says Weekend Update has been consistently strong.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
Let’s turn to Justice Samuel Alito, whose dissent is slightly less crazy but way funnier because he’s big mad.
From Slate ● May 15, 2026
And if that wasn’t funny, there were lots of things that weren’t even funnier.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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And one of Slate’s funniest writers, Christina Cauterucci, took a deep dive into the weirdly knife-heavy videos the Trump administration has been posting on TikTok, so you don’t have to.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
A mashup of a memoir, a self-help book, a personal-finance guide, a serious and startling social history of wealth and a standup comedy routine, this is one of the funniest financial books I’ve ever read.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Freeman said: "I've never laughed that much at work, before or since. It's easily the funniest time I've ever had."
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
You may have even convinced yourself that it is the funniest thing you’ll watch this month without having seen it yet.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
The kid giggled like he’d just said the funniest thing in history.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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