funny
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Our critic wrote that “Ms. Wilde is outrageously funny in the movie.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
I don’t want to say too much about what happens, because it wouldn’t be as funny on paper as it is in motion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
It was as funny as it was breathtaking.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Our critic noted that the show is “joyful proof that diminutive sculpture can be intimate, funny and even moving.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Maybe that fact was kept out of our training so cadets wouldn’t get any funny ideas.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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
“I loved the funnies — the Mickey Mouse, the Donald Duck cars,” he told the Orange County Register in 2014.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2021
“I’m thinking this paper is full of bad news. I’m thinking of flipping to the funnies for a change.”
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
Elsewhere in his interview, McSweeney said he found Donald Trump "much funnier than I expected him to be".
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
“Because what is funnier than appearing in one soap opera? Appearing in two!” he said.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 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
I think the horrified look on my face made it even funnier for them.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
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
Carl Reiner similarly declared: “I saw what I thought was the funniest ad-libbed thing I had ever seen. It was a riot, and we never stopped laughing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 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
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 just said the funniest thing about peanut butter gelato...”
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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