One movie critic noted that the earlier film was darkly funny to the very end.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

And it probably--One--There's--Evolutionary psychologists debate the function of why we talk funny to babies.

进化心理学家们在争论,我们为何要以如此好玩的方式来同婴儿讲话

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In other words, you might think of it as a kind of artificial, processed, bland, easily consumable version of fate. I really mean that. One of the funny things about that debt to Finnegans Wake is, Finnegans Wake as a book of puns is unreadable.

也就是说，你可能会把它当做一种人为的，处理过的，乏味的，容易消耗的命运，我正是此意,关于《芬尼根守灵夜》中一个有趣的事是,它作为一本充满双关语的书是不值得一读的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The movie has many funny parts. One of the most famous is when fifteen people are crowded into a very small room on a passenger ship.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

One of the funny things is that the emergence of this family farm gives rise to the polis' character as a land in which there is a citizenry, which is to say free men who rule themselves.

有趣的是,家庭农场的繁荣,促成了城邦的兴起,公民制开始在这片土地上萌芽,即自由人享有自由的权利

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选