After a while, it wasn't even that it was funny as much as that we needed to straighten up before that door opened.
The comedian, who graduated from Harvard University in 1985, addressed my alma mater, Dartmouth College, yesterday, giving a commencement speech that was both funny and poignant.
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"There were so many bad multi-camera sitcoms, where there would be a punchline that was not really funny, but then suddenly the studio audience would erupt in laughter, " 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.
It crossed my mind that the ball had moved in a funny angle and that Thierry was able to keep it in play given his body position.
Maybe it struck him as funny that I was talking about molasses, but he seemed to soften.
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.
In that tight and often-funny tease, we learned that the Muppet gang was reuniting to work with Miss Piggy on a new talk show and that things were going to be awkward because Kermit already had moved on to a new girlfriend in Denise, the pig running ABC's marketing department.
"The only tragedy is that Phyllis Diller was the last from an era that insisted a woman had to look funny in order to be funny, " Rivers tweeted.
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He was funny in a way that superheroes had never been hip, droll, sardonic and self-ironic and his quick wit meshed beautifully with the movie's sophisticated style and elegant action.
"They were funny and they believed that everything was copy, " Ephron said in 2009.
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The question was a funny one, one that conferred on college grads skills much greater than those possessed by the average individual.
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The funny thing about it was that whenever the great run flagged in the 19th century, it correlated with attempts to introduce monetary and fiscal policy.
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Further evidence of Arsenal's lack of concentration came when Diaby produced a foul throw, but if that was comedy of sorts, there was nothing funny about the Frenchman's challenge on Steinsson which followed.
And the funny thing about this man was that he was you hear from his English that it was a heavily accented, almost broken English.
After learning that Australia's coach had complained about his kicks, van der Burgh told reporters he thought the situation was "pretty funny" and noted that the video also shows an Australian doing the very same thing.
My mother never mentioned that she wanted to be a comedian, but she was funny and even dressed with a humorous eye.
Hmm, I find it funny that America lead in science back when creationism was an accepted theory.
We thought it was funny at first, and then we thought that was weird, so we called the cops.
It was funny, clever, and perfectly performed (that is, short).
Something funny was going on with the books, suggesting that revenues and profits had been inflated.
The day that we wrote it, we were laughing about how funny it was.
He set to work, confident, funny, and instantly got heckled, a heckle that was followed by a collective audience intake of breath, for the heckler was Daniel Kitson, a rather shy, whimsical young comedian from Yorkshire who looks like a beardy cross between a fisherman and a geography teacher.
Given his past behaviour, there was a suspicion that he might fly into London, feel a bit funny and get straight back on the next plane home.
So as I said earlier, that was really - you know, Michel, there's just something funny and unusual about the way peoples, as opposed to individuals, see themselves and project their aspirations.
There was the spin which John Major hadn't developed and that's always funny -- its also funny parodying conference speeches.
It was funny because only the people involved knew how important it was to have that platform properly aligned.
He's funny and he's a laugh, and he was renowned for that in the Blackburn dressing-room and the Newcastle dressing-room.
As the problem was being fixed, Jobs told the audience a funny story of a prank that his boyhood pal and co-founder, Steve Wozniak, would play when Jobs was still in high school.
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