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[fuhn-ee] / ˈfʌn i /




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Mr. Baitz’s contribution to the squabbling-clan genre proves to be a durable one—every bit as richly funny, but also steeped in authentic angst, as at its debut in 2011.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

That last one was laugh-out-loud funny, for Hearts' use of the ball was comically bad.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

“Isn’t it funny that I hosted a show about business scams, and now you’re in trouble for a business scam?”

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Rather than the story dying out, a funny thing happened.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

“This wheel is a hundred years old. It always seems funny to watch TV or listen to a podcast while working on an antique.”

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Did these two never read the funnies growing up?

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2024

I always start the day reading the funnies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2022

The funnies included Orion’s star trackers being momentarily confused when the spacecraft’s thrusters fired.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

It’s a little like TikTok but specifically for Netflix funnies.

From The Verge ● Oct. 4, 2021

The Sunday funnies influenced me, and although I admired the strong heroes who always conquered in the end, I identified with Tiny Tim.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

The biggest hits sand down the rough-hewn edges of Mama’s metaphorical front porch to up their resale value, perhaps never funnier than Luke Bryan’s bullet-point summer vacation on “Fish, Hunt, Golf, Drink.”

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

Elsewhere in his interview, McSweeney said he found Donald Trump "much funnier than I expected him to be".

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

An unusually pretty leading man who is quirkier and funnier than he looks, Galitzine is the kind of rising talent Hollywood rarely knows how to handle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

And if that wasn’t funny, there were lots of things that weren’t even funnier.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

The funniest comments, she said, are the very specific observations such as, “You look like you could carry the groceries in one trip.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

One of his best friends on the comedy circuit, Parenting Hell podcaster Rob Beckett, is another of this year's funniest contestants.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

“I just thought that was the funniest thing in the world.”

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The funniest part of that conversation is when Sam labels Judith a WOACA, a Woman of a Certain Age, pronouncing it as if he were Fozzie Bear punctuating a joke in an old-timey stand-up set.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

They’d hold their mouths shut like the funniest thing in the whole stupid world had just happened and they wanted to bust out talking about it but they couldn’t until I walked by.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt


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