Predicting what people will think is funny is hard to do, but there always seems to be massive interest in the latest popular cat video.
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"If Susie didn't think you were funny, she had no use for them, " Ms. Behar remembered.
"We try to think about something funny to make him laugh, " she said.
Most everyone is clever and funny when they have time to think and type it out.
Irish comedian Aisling Bea has won the So You Think You're Funny? competition for up-and-coming stand-up comedians.
"I think he's funny, but not all the time, " says Megan, who admits she likes when her dad comments that she looks pretty in pictures.
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But apparently Radio 4 didn't think my explanations were funny enough.
Per Mr. Forbes' response that it was intended to be humorous...well, I didn't think it was particularly funny and I seriously doubt that many people did.
The sorority email is amusing when Michael Shannon reads it on Funny Or Die or when you think of it as a great dark comedy monologue for Parker Posey to recite.
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And for the record, I think you guys have a funny accent, too.
"I think it's great, funny and a compliment to the Caribbean no worries feel happy way of life!"
Mr. VERRALL: Well, the funny thing is, I mean, I think they actually started selling things I think around 2005.
Mr. CARNEY: Which, at this point when I think of it, it was really funny.
"People have seen Crocodile Dundee so they think Australians are wonderful people, clever, funny, humorous, masculine, outdoorsy and all the rest of it, " he said.
Come to think of it, Walter added, it was funny that a man would choose to live in a skiing state and open a restaurant at a ski resort in another state.
"I don't think it's very abstract at all, which is very funny, " she says.
You know, it's funny, " says the A-lister, "I can't think of female executives' husbands, but I can recall male executives' wives.
And is it just me, or does anyone else think that a Northstar and Captain America co-op game is a funny, funny idea?
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The answer, I think, is partly structural and script-driven: the ''funny'' moments are whiffed, the dialogue is ''scene-y, '' and each reaction shot is held a second or ten too long, leaving the actors hanging.
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And I think we can then transfer this back to America, which is sort of funny because normally the transfer has been American technology, Western technology going to the East.
If, like me, you think much of Brooks' previous work can be described as genius, this thing simply is not funny.
Perhaps these pundits should pause and think just how the British legal system would appear to the average American judges and lawyers in funny wigs indulging in an arcane ritual which is frequently incomprehensible to defendants and spectators.
So I think it's the one that is easiest to anticipate and see off in the distance because the funny thing is that Henry Aaron never got this kind of glowing praise when he was playing, and not even 10 years after he retired.
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