Sentence examples for a funny tale from inspiring English sources

Heaven forbid someone read Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and think it's just a funny tale.

Although there are sad parts and some sinister ones, this is still a funny tale, inventive and original with fantastic illustrations.

"A genuinely humourous chap, he regailed us with many a funny tale as we hacked our way around," he continues [Note - Guardian Media Group can accept no responsibility for readers' judgments on what constitutes 'genuinely' humorous].

A funny tale or two told by one of you, that does not include bringing up you and your ex as a couple in order to tell the story, is acceptable.

The only shadow on the otherwise glorious weekend was that "It's Kind of a Funny Story," an understated tale of a suicidal teenager's transformative stay in an adult mental ward, seemed too slight to prosper.

It wants to be a darkly funny tale of a man battling his own worst impulses, taking a leap to impress a girl -- and mostly succeeding at that effort.

A comic offers the first sentence of a story, which lurches into a (hopefully funny) tale, when someone else says, "Yes, and?" then adds another sentence, which leads to another "Yes, and?"— and back and forth it goes.

It could have been an exciting, funny tale of a boy overcoming both a life-altering injury and his close-minded society to become a hero to his people once again.

A unique coming of age story and a darkly funny tale of religious excess and human obsession.

The show ended with a staged reading of Gethard's imagined post-show friendship between himself and Diddy, a very funny tale of outlandish partying that concluded with a return to normalcy.

And their adaptation of "The Day I Got My Head Stuck in a Barstool," by Russel Kay, turned a cute anecdote about an 8-year-old's imitating his dog into a hysterically funny tale of mystical animal powers.