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[fuhn-ee] / ˈfʌn i /




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They can be technically proficient, maybe even a little funny, but there is always an underlying cadence of the uncanny valley that I still doubt Suno v6 pro et al. or whatever has totally overcome.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

As the day approaches, I keep thinking about how large a funny little bridge can become in the lives of its neighbors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

As Ms. Perry writes, “what was funny existed alongside what was intolerably sad, and the process of dying struck us as both quite ordinary, really almost a household task, but also incomprehensibly strange.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Luke's family said the teen, who played in Seaham Red Star Football Club Youth Section's U17 team, was kind and funny and loved shopping for clothes, watching and playing football.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

He liked the name Jerry, because it was the same as that funny mouse in the old cartoons, the one who always outsmarted the cat.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

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

The tingling sensation I normally got in my fingers now stormed through my whole body, like just being near him would make every story funnier and more memorable.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

The funniest comments, she said, are the very specific observations such as, “You look like you could carry the groceries in one trip.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

"He was the cleverest, funniest, loving person. His life has just been cut too short too soon."

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

The film’s richest, most affecting moment is also one of its funniest.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

I was certain Mildred would send one loaded with mush, so I’d found the funniest penny postcard I could at Bub Nefrger’s little sod-house post office and store in Vida.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson




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