"It has been a really, really sad last few days and a quite horrendous and totally unexpectedly sad end for a guy who was so funny in life, " she said.

BBC: On The Buses writer Ronnie Wolfe dies

Life plays funny tricks: Icahn, the well-known corporate raider, is now in the medicine business.

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Funny how your work life balance wobbles sometimes.

BBC: In...out...shake it all about

Even Half-Life would feel funny as a film, with the first-person perspective ripped away and, one suspects, a chatty Gordon Freeman.

FORBES: Connect

She was so full of life, so funny, so interested in people, so kind and so good to all of us writers, who came after her.

BBC: Author Maeve Binchy dies aged 72

In real life, she's pretty funny.

NPR: Chertoff Brings Reality Check to '24' Crew

He now brings the same cutting, nervy, funny angst to a rambling account of his own life.

FORBES: Picture This

Her paintings were "very much a reflection of her soul, bright, funny, happy, whimsical full of color and life, " Streets said.

CNN: Comedian Phyllis Diller dies 'with a smile on her face'

"I think it's great, funny and a compliment to the Caribbean no worries feel happy way of life!"

CNN: Sexy, snarky Super Bowl ads

Tom Riles started his website, The Life of Dad, to celebrate all that is good and funny and heartbreaking and complex about being a dad.

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Amid its pious devotion to the woebegone, there are scenes that manage to twitch into life and hit a nerve, perhaps because they also bump the funny bone.

NEWYORKER: Hot and Bothered

His family said he was "always the life and soul of the party, a real ladies' man, witty, funny, the real cheeky chappy".

BBC: Fuberal of Fusilier Samuel Flint-Broughton