The phrase "amusing portrayal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a representation or depiction that is entertaining or humorous in nature.
Example: "The film offers an amusing portrayal of everyday life in a small town, filled with quirky characters and funny situations."
Alternatives: "humorous depiction" or "entertaining representation".
Sister Mary Hubert is her second in command and, in an amusing portrayal by Inga Ballard, chafes at the lower position.
Stephen O'Brien supplied the Lord Chancellor's tongue-twisting patter with a virtuosic clarity, and Kelly Ebsary contributed an amusing portrayal of the Queen of the Fairies.
His acting skills were also brought into play here: the hangdog expression and furrowed brow of his Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner in The Mikado – to take just one example – contributed to an amusing portrayal.
These are just some of the scenes in "Crash", which at last weekend's Academy Awards won three Oscars for best picture, best original screenplay and best editing with its vivid, often amusing, portrayal of the racial tensions of Los Angeles.Is racial conflict in America's second-largest city really so raw and pervasive?
The series itself is a rehash of the Bosom Buddies sitcom of the '80s, yet the promo graphics and trailer bear ill tidings of a far less amusing portrayal of cross-dressing and, inherently, of transsexual women.
Once Nils Neubert overcame his initial tentativeness in the title role, his attractive tenor, beautifully controlled vibrato and amusing, flexible portrayal of Pygmalion carried the evening.
"The Information contains some amusing and nasty portrayals of LA SoCal nihilism.
The dreams, revealed in narration or song, tended to be about entrapment or love, but there were also asides about Mr. Hersch's admiration for Thelonious Monk; the definition of a coma; the amusing wrongness in the portrayal of comas in television dramas; and St . Vincent dePaul, the namesake of the Manhattan hospital where Mr. Hersch lay.
Some, like Megan Moore Kau, also of Bronxville, found the book amusing, but not necessarily a portrayal of Bronxville or her own book club.
When Shelton, the strip's creator, recognised the wisdom and necessity of collaboration, what emerged were some of the most amusing as well as accurate portrayals of the drug-taking society that was to become ineradicably established throughout much of the western world.
Ichikawa draws from Yoshinaga and Ohara the kind of complex portrayals, at once amusing and touching, that we associate with George Cukor.
