"amusing talk" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to conversation or discussion that is entertaining or enjoyable. Example: The dinner party was full of amusing talk, with guests telling funny stories and jokes throughout the night.
Heller was not a writer who sought to show off his keen wit in public: he had, as Erica says, real disdain for the sort of self-consciously amusing "talking heads" who have become increasingly numerous on television.
And here he seems a cutely domesticated Adolf, one who could easily do a slightly amusing talking-head turn on Grumpy Old Men, complaining as he does about how young people don't look where they're going in the street because they are entranced by their smartphones.
Maltby had a perpetual chirrup of amusing small talk.
They're mocked in amusing reviews one talks of "several artistic colossi unknown to a wider audience," and of their art being "a harmless pastime"—and they call the reviewer an idiot and turn on one another.
A few months later, Mr. Levy was sitting at another dull party and again amusing himself with talk of his hockey-training idea.
My vato locos are, like most line cooks, practitioners of that centuries-old oral tradition in which we - all of us - try to find new and amusing ways to talk about dick.
" 4.52pm BST Second set: Murray 6-4, 1-2 Verdasco* (*denotes server): It's amusing when Murray talks to himself.
Arbus is similarly amusing when she talks about one of her iconic images, "Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C. 1962".
I think I'm more amusing.' She talks about being a sounding board, or a wall against which Lagerfeld bounces his ideas - she is very fond of metaphors from which it is often difficult to unpick the truth.
He was a bit shaky on his feet but sharp as a button, regaling the audience with amusing anecdotes and talking about projects he'd passed on including The Godfather, Jurassic Park and Superman.
