funny
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As Ms. Koul notes, it never had a chance to be funny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
He plays us Soulmate, a funny and affectionate tribute to Amy, powered by a peacocking guitar riff.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The funny thing is, when Warner Bros. made Coyote vs.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
Don’t forget to check out Season 2 of the very funny Gen-Z hangout comedy “Adults,” which dropped at the end of August.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
But her face is twisted into a funny expression, and she scooches back on the bench.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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A recent spate of theatrical funnies is trying to change that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
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
But now we were having to save the funnies indefinitely, and sometimes the newspaper got taken to start a fire with before I could tear out the page.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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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
Elsewhere in his interview, McSweeney said he found Donald Trump "much funnier than I expected him to be".
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
AFI said the move came after Brooks had “long kvetched” that his film was funnier than Billy Wilder’s 1959 classic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 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
I laughed as if the joke was funnier than it was.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
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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
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
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
Defector deputy editor Barry Petchesky may have had the funniest observation of all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Dee is the funniest person I have ever met in my life.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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