People, Iverson added, tend to forward funny Web ads to friends and family, giving them extra exposure.

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My friends and I exchange funny stories in Gmail threads, then never go back and read them.

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Whenever funny things happen during the day, Insoo and friends shoot video with their phones and send the clip to portal sites, hoping their clips will be featured on the portals' homepages.

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His complete lack of self-awareness makes for some pretty funny scenes as the lynchpin between unique characters that are his friends and family in this tiny community, where the hottest thing going is the video store.

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Getting breast cancer has a funny way of bringing clarity, survivors say, from who your friends really are to what you want to do with your life.

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Rebecca (Eisa Davis) and Drea (a fiercely funny Crystal A. Dickinson), a black lesbian married couple, encourage their good friends' decisions.

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