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goofy

[goo-fee] / ˈgu fi /


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Lately, Other Kyle has been replaced by Online Kyle, a goofy, lighthearted version of MacLachlan who primarily lives on TikTok and Instagram — thus the wholesome, Gen Z title of “Internet’s Dad.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Variety magazine was also impressed by his stage presence, external, writing: "Styles is a one-in-millions performer, with a hurricane-force charm that's dashing and sexy and goofy at the same time."

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Michigan boils on and every college football podcast on Earth will have something to bicker about until Lane Kiffin does another goofy thing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The goofy, R-rated “Starship Troopers” famously tanked domestically among adults, but was a notable hit among teen boys, who sneaked into the flick in droves.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

The pictures go all the way back to when we were little, and we’re making goofy faces in most of them.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

And if her goofier choices were unanimously refuted as artistic inferiority, we’d never get the chance to see her bounce from “Babygirl” to “Holland” to playing an Italian forensic pathologist in “Scarpetta.”

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2026

Pacific Opera Project, L.A.’s goofiest opera company, has never been goofier nor made goofiness so radiant as in its revival of a super-obscure 19th-century satire, Antonio Cagnoni’s “Don Bucefalo.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024

There’s humor here, too, the interactions goofier than they are gritty.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2023

The goofier “Shazam!,” which cost closer to $100 million to make, opened with $53.5 million in ticket sales and wound up an over-achieving success with $366 million worldwide.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2022

But where Stewart’s comedy on the series tended to be political, Zelensky’s sometimes veered into much goofier territory — more like Jimmy Fallon.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2022

The French have given us Delacroix, Debussy, Claire Denis and Simone de Beauvoir, along with some of the goofiest of goofball comedies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

Pacific Opera Project, L.A.’s goofiest opera company, has never been goofier nor made goofiness so radiant as in its revival of a super-obscure 19th-century satire, Antonio Cagnoni’s “Don Bucefalo.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024

He apologised for a follow-up track he released promising to "humble" Kendrick, saying it was the "lamest, goofiest" thing he'd recorded and was a "mis-step".

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024

And then I went to work and wrote just the goofiest sketch that I think made it on that day that was like, 'Join the fun!

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2024

Then I throw my shoulders back and give the biggest, goofiest grin I can manage without my face hurting too bad.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell


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