funny
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It was as funny as it was breathtaking.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
It allows people to both be scared and think, This is kind of funny.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Jane Coates described her daughter Lucy Harrison as "energetic, very intelligent, funny and empathetic"
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
“He was funny, stubborn in the best way, full of love, and always willing to help anyone who needed it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Jeff is a funny name for a poodle,” Bat said.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
Did these two never read the funnies growing up?
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2024
“She gives me the funnies from her paper every Sunday,” said front desk clerk Teina Tahauri.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 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
Elsewhere in his interview, McSweeney said he found Donald Trump "much funnier than I expected him to be".
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
If you have watched any of these — if they comforted you on your worst days and made good ones better — Burrows had a hand in making your life funnier.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
His next few releases would see his music becoming clearer sonically, as if that smoke ring had dissipated, as well as funnier and more self-referential.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 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
Race after race, it was repeated, and each time they found it funnier than before.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
His “Peaky Blinders” co-star Cillian Murphy remembered Neill as “one of the kindest, funniest and gentlest people, and one of the finest actors,” while Nicole Kidman celebrated Neill as “one of the greats.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
His westward picaresque—the funniest book on this list, or on any list—brings to life Mormon settlers, Native Americans, ’49ers, San Francisco newspapermen and Hawaiian royalty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
He wants to turn the Fourth of July into a Trump rally, which is one of the funniest ideas I’ve heard lately.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026
"He was incredible, the funniest life and soul, he would light up any room that he'd go into," she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Kevin Hennessey goes, and Jimmy Lemon laughs like Kevin is the funniest guy since Robin Williams.
From "The Misfits" by James Howe
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