The phrase "amusing news" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe news that is entertaining or funny in nature.
Example: "The latest amusing news about the celebrity's antics had everyone laughing at the dinner table."
Alternatives: "funny news" or "entertaining news".
It made for a faintly amusing news item.
Satirical, bizarre and amusing news website Fark has kicked the fark out of a patent troll called Gooseberry Natural Resources LLC.
Just the other afternoon while I was sitting in the Los Angeles traffic I heard a very amusing news story about a woman who had thrown away her husband's absentee ballot after promising to mail it.
In other amusing news from the other side of the aisle, the GOP apparently is bragging about a report which plainly shows that the Democrats' tax policies would lower taxes for average Americans more than the Republican plan.
Lloyd shows us how a bigwig at the Independent Broadcasting Authority used to vet Spitting Image scripts (patrician voice, heavy with scepticism: "do you find that amusing?"), then flits to diverting news clipping about an accident-prone guide-dog for the blind.
In not-so-amusing news, a blogger was fired in Utah because he had the audacity to teach English-learners about homophones (you know, like: "to," two," and "too").
In amusing journalism news, the vaunted New York Times made a major goof by running a story about "Kyrzbekistan" (instead of Kyrgyzstan).
In other amusing Republican news, Congress is taking most of December off, but they did find the time to hold some hearings on "the I-word".
We'll begin in outer space and end up with amusing holiday news, so buckle your seatbelts, it's going to be a fast ride this week.
As Hugh presented it: I often wonder who thinks up those sometimes amusing captions under news pictures in the paper.
But after his initial, semi-amusing foray into news pastiche, it started to become more of a one-man show – a weird monologue more befitting an empty comedy club improv night than a sketch show.
