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[fuhn-ee] / ˈfʌn i /




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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

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

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

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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