Not only is it funny to me how fast the sentiment toward Apple has changed in the last several months, but despite that shift speculation continues to run rampant over what the next product set might be.
Thanks to director Barry Sonnenfeld, it is funny because the stars are encouraged to play it dead straight.
It is a funny account of his disastrous experience playing football with the Detroit Lions.
It is genuinely funny, brilliantly edited and very feelgood.
It is funny, but the people in life who are primarily motivated by money or security often end up losing whatever they gain, whereas those who follow their passion end up making far more money than they ever desired.
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"Brick" doesn't try to match that force -- it's a parody, after all, and some of it is very funny. (One of the funniest moments involves the underworld kingpin's cheerful mother.) But its arcane slang, which is meant to be mannered, grows mannered in unintended, off-putting ways, and the performances, though amusing, can be painfully short on energy.
The question is legitimate, of course, but the fact that I am being asked it is a bit funny, if you know me.
The closer you get to financial markets the easier it is to book funny profits.
Netanyahu's statement is funny because it is completely absurd.
Calling it a sport is likely to earn you funny looks from people who see it as a shady pastime that falls, on the respectability scale, somewhere south of bar darts and north of cockfighting.
While it seems funny for a moment, it is really a symptom of a dangerous world of new media.
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And the funny about it is buying a home is the most expensive endeavor that you'll probably undertake in your lifetime.
Not only are they used to brand messages invading so much of their daily activity, but also they can at times enjoy it, particularly if it is succinct, relevant and funny.
Whether it's actually funny is up to you, so check out the full skit below.
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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Great Britain is not an island - funny as it sounds - because we are also bound by rules made in the EU. These rules bias eventual decisions made by our own Ministries.
But suing Matt Drudge and trying to take control of his website, as one plaintiff did yesterday, is a funny way of going about fixing it.
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Our mind is so funny, tricky and complex that it fools us into thinking it knows what we need to be happy which is to start fixing what is wrong.
Yet the wonder of his achievement is that it's deeply serious and blissfully funny at the same time, because it's also about yearning and desire, fantastic flights of language, the persistence of hope and the possibility of healing love.
Whatever the first rule of cool, the first rule of funny is that if you try to dissect why a joke is funny in a solicitor's office, not only does funny move on, it doesn't leave a forwarding address and gets a restraining order taken out preventing you from ever contacting it again.
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If that sounds a funny sort of privatisation, it is all the funnier because seemingly nobody, unless this is a very well-kept official secret, knows how the savings bank is going to operate from 2007 onwards, even while it is still under state management.
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He said when I say flipping heck the phone lines are jammed, I don't need to hear this kind of language, disgusting Jack Russel but when I use quite appalling language it's great, it's funny so the thing is to have a larynx made of tweed and you can get away with anything.
And it's especially funny if someone else is doing the saying and showing, thus shifting responsibility.
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