Polley, has died, at 96, and the remembrances pouring in are fond, and sometimes funny.

FORBES: Remembering Eugene Polley, an Inventor of the TV Remote

There are many partisan left-wing blogs out there, including the thoughtful and sometimes funny Huffington Post.

FORBES: Daily Kos Slanders, Inoculates Sarah Palin

They were strange men, sometimes funny, but savage and unpredictable.

NEWYORKER: Teaching

"Sometimes they're funny, sometimes they're serious, but it's just sort of a visual editorial of what she's thinking and or feeling at any particular moment, " explains Bellows of Ally's secret thoughts.

CNN: Young lawyer's thoughts spring to life in 'Ally McBeal' - Sept. 12, 1997

Sometimes it is funny.

FORBES: Stars Vs. Science

The Office in America became a funny, sometimes awkward piece of the television furniture.

BBC: American The Office clocks out

Jeffrey Archer - The Truth is part thriller, part Royal scandal and all farce that is sometimes utterly, utterly daft but funny.

BBC: Archer farce scores bullseye

So tonight we honor David Letterman, who has always offered us an authentic piece of himself -- sometimes cranky, often self-deprecating, always funny.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

Funny how your work life balance wobbles sometimes.

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

Over a late lunch in Venice Beach earlier this week, the 40-year-old native New Yorker is funny, impassioned, defensive and irritated, sometimes in the same sentence.

WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Mark Boal: The Art and Politics of 'Zero Dark Thirty'

But sometimes it's the difficulty of understanding something that makes it funny.

CNN: Higgs Boson humorists get mass following