The phrase "a minute funny" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be an attempt to convey that something is slightly amusing, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "The joke was a minute funny, but it still made me smile."
Alternatives: "a bit funny" or "somewhat amusing."
Next, a woman from England inquired if Brykman alone could write a "5 minute funny speech" for her husband to deliver at her daughter's bat mitzvah — something "relatively memorable," but only at his "best price".
The researchers at Loma Linda University showed a 20-minute funny video to a group of healthy senior adults and a group of seniors with diabetes.
When researchers at Japan's Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine showed a 75-minute funny film to a group of men and women, they found that that blood levels of natural killer cells activity increased by 26.5 per cent.
Meanwhile, I plodded on with my own dire attempt at film-making – a three-minute "funny" entitled The Procrastinator, following 24 hours in the life of a neurotic but disorganised student as he tried to meet an essay deadline.
With his immediate British Caribbean playwriting contemporaries, Trevor Rhone and Mustapha Matura, he channelled this material into memorable drama, not laugh-a-minute comedy, though he could be funny and ironic.
I think my favorite memory is before we met I'd see you in the hallway and wonder what your deal was while blankly staring and one time, as you approached, you looked right at me then got in my face and yelled "WHAT ARE YOU STARING AT!?" It was terrifying for a minute, but then became incredibly funny.
But this disjointed, desperately whimsical film is simply not funny: not for a minute.
Episode 41 has a dramatic high point: an encounter outside a concert with a religious protester that manages, in a minute of screen time, to be funny, revealing and a little frightening.
Jon Stewart accomplishes a lot more in a few hysterically funny minutes than I did in a few hundred words.
(Dargis) ★ 'SUPERBAD' (R, 114 minutes) A tickly, funny tale of three teenage boys revved up by their surging, churning, flooding hormones.
(Catsoulis) ★ 'SUPERBAD' (R, 114 minutes) A tickly, funny tale of three teenage boys revved up by their surging, churning, flooding hormones.
