How to Use funny in a Sentence

funny

1 of 2 adjective
  • It feels funny to be back here again.
  • He's a very funny guy.
  • A funny thing happened to me the other day.
  • She has some funny ideas about how to run a company.
  • He told a funny story.
  • My car has been making a funny noise lately.
  • It's funny that you should say that—I was just thinking the same thing myself.
  • There's something funny going on here.
  • What are you laughing at? There's nothing funny about it.
  • That name alone is so funny to me.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Your best weapon is to be funny.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2026
  • This is less spooky and more funny.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Jones is just very loose and funny.
    — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Safdie asked him what was so funny.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The ball bounces in funny ways.
    — Doug Haller, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • None of these things are funny.
    — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2026
  • That sounds like a funny sketch.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2026
  • But yeah, that show was very funny.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Of course, it’s meant to be funny.
    — R. Scott Rappold, Denver Post, 1 June 2026
  • Your books have such a sharp, funny voice.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Some emails are just funny lines back and forth.
    — Annabelle Gurwitch, HollywoodReporter, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Yeah, that’s a very funny take.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Stephanie’s love life is funny too.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Well, this is what’s funny about that.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 22 June 2026
  • There's so much funny stuff in there.
    — Janine Rubenstein, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
  • That’s funny and sounds wise at the same time.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • This episode is funny, you guys!
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 June 2026
  • First, too many thrillers fail to be funny and odd.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
  • And then there are no more funny talk shows at all.
    — Jesse Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
  • That was a very funny line, though, well done.
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2026

funny

2 of 2 noun
  • The show is laugh-out-loud funny.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 2 June 2026
  • This poignant story is laugh-out-loud funny, too.
    — Caroline Carlson, Literary Hub, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Wine rarely goes viral in such a mainstream way — and wine is rarely this funny.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Funny, tough to make sense of, and since that baloney is real, rotting.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Not so much ha-ha funny as smart funny, which is probably for the best.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Sheridan clearly seems to find all this funny more than anything.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2026
  • BoJack was funny, in a dark way, but rarely laugh-out-loud funny.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Funny, because that’s where this franchise has ended up, too.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 24 Aug. 2017
  • But while the ads are laugh-out-loud funny, the product is anything but a joking matter.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2025
  • His desperate attempt at explaining it away is laugh-out-loud funny.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Funny, nobody’s asking how much longer the 68-year-old is sticking around anymore.
    — Will Graves, The Seattle Times, 12 June 2017
  • There is a dialogue-free scene involving drones and garbage disposal that is laugh-out-loud funny.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Lulled by the presence of innocents, the president made a couple of mild funnies.
    — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Funny, then, that the biggest golf tournament win of his youth career would come about eight minutes from his home in Carlsbad.
    — Tod Leonard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 July 2017
  • Lily Harrison’s script is laugh-out-loud funny while staying grounded and deeply relatable.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The point is that the episode has arguably the highest throwaway-gag-per-minute ratio of any Simpsons, and all of them are laugh-out-loud funny.
    — EW.com, 18 Mar. 2024
  • There’s plenty of gallows humor about aging and dying, although the film moves slower than most comedies and the jokes are rarely laugh-out-loud funny.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024
  • This Netflix look at vulgar language, starring Nicolas Cage, is bust-a-gut funny.
    — Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 9 Jan. 2021
  • Vice President Vance, who called the video funny, said sombrero memes would end if Jeffries ends the shutdown.
    — Julia Manchester, The Hill, 5 Oct. 2025
  • There’s no doubt that the online backlash was swift and laugh-out-loud funny, the worst kind of insult to a man who sees himself as endowed with otherworldly powers.
    — Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The primary colors of Johns’ target collide with the printing press of the Sunday funnies.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • No mention of whether those shows will be any different than the others or if the khaki-pants-wearing data analyst was simply making a funny.
    — Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Though The Blackening is laugh-out-loud funny, its sharp writing makes for equal parts horror and humor, rarely letting its tension rest for a second.
    — Yasmeen Hamadeh, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
  • At last year’s inaugural event in Kansas City, the readings ranged from laugh-out-loud funny to heart-rending reports about bullying.
    — Bill Brownlee, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
  • At times laugh-out-loud funny, the film explores the effects Johnson’s journey has had on his life and those around him, including Johnson’s father and teenage son.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Many readers found Caity’s self-deprecating tone in the article funny, and others commented that the van life wasn’t supposed to be glamorous.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • There’s something about his ability to be both hypersensitive and judgmental, ambitious and full of self-doubt, dark and laugh-out-loud funny that has influenced my writing and thinking.
    — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 20 June 2025
  • Lowbrow sources such as Sunday funnies, B movies, and advertisements are present but are more diffuse, rarely coalescing into obvious quotation.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • The Vince Staples Show is frequently laugh-out-loud funny, but there’s a hardness to it — and the series’ protagonist — that feels both unexpected and authentic.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Deeply affectionate and laugh-out-loud funny, this delightful comedy is the directorial debut of Maude Apatow.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2026

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