funny
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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
I thought that was funny, but I didn’t know if that would be something anyone cared about.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham star in a funny, refreshing series about best friends who face a bump in their relationship when one discovers that the other is a professional assassin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Tante Jans’s preoccupation with death might have been funny, but it wasn’t.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Did these two never read the funnies growing up?
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2024
The primary colors of Johns’ target collide with the printing press of the Sunday funnies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
Most episodes have the same rhythm as the Sunday funnies, with similarly corny punch lines.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
It’s a little like TikTok but specifically for Netflix funnies.
From The Verge ● Oct. 4, 2021
She messed around the kitchen for a while and then went out on the front porch to read the funnies.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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
“Because what is funnier than appearing in one soap opera? Appearing in two!” he said.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 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
What made it funnier was that Pappa had been on his way to her house to meet her parents to arrange their marriage.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
Teenagers are still the funniest people on the planet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
“We are happy to right this wrong and proclaim ‘Blazing Saddles’ the funniest film of all time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
These scenes are where the film does its best work, conveying the necessity of unstructured play with ease alongside the movie’s funniest jokes.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 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
We laughed like those were the funniest jokes in the world.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
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