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funny

[fuhn-ee] / ˈfʌn i /




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The jokers Toth and Jackson, bless them, keep things endearing and funny.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

And it obviously means the world to me when people say, oh my God, I laughed so much, that was funny.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

“I think it’s really funny that we couldn’t meet in Miami or LA, but we could all somehow meet in Ibiza,” Anthea says.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

“And then there’s some funny stuff too,” Dan explained, strutting around the store, with a sense of importance.

From Slate Aug. 14, 2026

For a guy who spent the majority of his life with a scowl permanently embedded on his face, how in the world was he possibly finding this funny?

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Her early life story has more of the makings of a telenovela than the Sunday funnies.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2024

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

Mom comes downstairs and I’m reading the funnies and eating oatmeal.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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

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

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

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

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

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

Freeman said: "I've never laughed that much at work, before or since. It's easily the funniest time I've ever had."

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

You may have even convinced yourself that it is the funniest thing you’ll watch this month without having seen it yet.

From Salon Jul. 3, 2026

The kid giggled like he’d just said the funniest thing in history.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner




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