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How to use the word Funny in a Sentence? Page #9

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Isn't it funny how music is the one, most beneficial prescription the doctor never thinks to write?

Limpsync

added by Limpsync
4 years ago

I re-read 'David Copperfield' about 10 or so years ago and it just felt so cinematic and funny and experimental. It felt very modern, it also speaks of these sort of contemporary issues as well and I just want to get that life and that humor and approach it maybe as if there were no rules as to how you make a costume drama.

Armando Iannucci

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Just because you think it's cute or funny to make somebody embarrassed or humiliate them, think again, because if somebody would have realized that, my son would not be dead.

Crystal Smith

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Part of the reason we made the movie is a response to the comic book world of movies, like, Why is this celebrated? Why is this funny? Why is this fun? What are the real-world implications of violence?

Todd Phillips

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

You have to have a brain of a goldfish and try and forget negatives, it's definitely always at the back of your mind. Now I'm getting tagged in all the Instagram memes and things like that. It's quite funny. You have to have a laugh about it.

Matt Heaton

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I didnt grope anybody. I might have kissed somebody on the cheek to say goodbye and then licked them. Thats my thing I licked Carrie Fisher at a roast. Its me being funny. Im not trying to sexually harass people.

The Hollywood Reporter

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I'd put her on the Mount Rushmore right away, dolly Parton voice is one of the greatest gifts from God any singer has ever been bestowed with. Dolly Parton is a phenomenal song writer... Dolly Parton's Dolly Parton and Dolly Parton's funny and Dolly Parton's self-effacing. Dolly Parton's a good human being. Dolly Parton makes fun of Dolly Parton. So Dolly Parton's the total package, as somebody says in the film.

Ken Burns

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Renée was perfect because she's a great actress, but also she sings, she's very funny and she has a big heart, audiences feel they know Renée at a certain level, that she's one of them. And I think that's a very Garland-like quality.

Rupert Goold

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I didn't set out to write this story, it sort of just bubbled out of me, i guess my experience is that when people are in grief or having a really intense time they're so funny - like you have to be funny to get through it and it kind of brings you closer together.

Rita Kalnejais

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

These crazy liberal clowns... Theyre not funny, theyre downright scary.

Dan Bishop

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Alexander Skarsgard's such a goofy Swede and no one gets to see that side of him -- Alexander Skarsgard's always cast as these really serious handsome dudes, really, Alexander Skarsgard's very funny. I hope that people see this and Alexander Skarsgard gets some other types of roles.

Kirsten Dunst

Found on CNN
4 years ago

For some reason I thought it would be funny to say, Babys got a habit: diamond rings and marijuana.

Miley Cyrus

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I wish I could. It's hard for me to talk about serious subjects. It takes a lot out of me. I do want to be funny. That's fun. It's not fun doing anything like that.

Jimmy Kimmel

Found on CNN
4 years ago

You watch the news all day, you see what's going on, how do you walk on stage and ignore it ? It just doesn't work anymore, i wish I could. It's hard for me to talk about serious subjects. It takes a lot out of me. I do want to be funny. That's fun. It's not fun doing anything like that.

Jimmy Kimmel

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Is it weird ? Is it funny ? Those are the criteria that we think of.

Adam Horovitz

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Its absurd, its ludicrous. And actually, frankly, in Swalwells case, its actually funny. they should begin impeachmentproceedings.We can no longer accept thenotion of a president who openlyinvites interference in ourelection.

De Blasio

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

At the Chateau Marmont, he pitched a couple of things that made it in. Like wearing glasses that had no lens, and the part in the game night scene where he lists all of these Chinese dignitaries, that was all his idea. And when he says,' I don't have a problem, Sasha. What's your problem ?' and starts air-fighting. It's hard to describe just how shockingly funny he is.

Ali Wong

Found on CNN
4 years ago

That's how he got his kicks, that's what he thought was funny is if he could get a reaction out of you.

Kevin Cole

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's funny, the little things that stick in my head.

Doris Lake

Found on CNN
4 years ago

He was really funny and super nice, i'll remember him as a passionate guy who was a great friend and resource.

Jeremy Shue

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

These articles that you're talking about were 17, 18 years ago, some of those were columns. They were humor columns, but some of them weren't funny and so I am apologetic. I'm embarrassed by some of those things that I wrote, but I do think we should get back to the issue of whether I'm qualified to be on the Federal Reserve Board.

Stephen Moore

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He is not, nor does he try to be, a good ol boy, he is not a back-pounder and doesnt tell funny jokes and have a beer with the boys.

Rex Early

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It wasn't an environmentalism type of climate change song in my head at first, i just had the idea of,' Wouldn't it be funny to cast different artists to play different animals ?'.

Lil Dicky

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's kind of funny. Turnabout's a fair game, I get it. ... You wear a different mask when you're out here.

Wendy Williams

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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