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"Shannen, our daughter-in-law, was funny and was also an amazing mum and they thought the world of their little family."
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Seeing him now, he was just as funny, flirtatious and tall as I had remembered, but maybe a few pounds heavier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
He succeeds completely, making what could have been a ho-hum zombie movie into a wickedly funny escapade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Do you like receiving funny little notes from the puzzle writer as you work your way through?
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 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
The primary colors of Johns’ target collide with the printing press of the Sunday funnies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
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
There’s nothing funnier to me than a confident moron.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
If you have watched any of these — if they comforted you on your worst days and made good ones better — Burrows had a hand in making your life funnier.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 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
In Sabbath school Mr. Travis is always telling us that the Lord loves laughter, and what could be funnier than watching Ma reaching down into her basket and getting a little surprise?
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
“I just thought that was the funniest thing in the world.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 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
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
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
Chet laughed like this was the funniest thing he’d said all day.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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