The phrase "and funny in the" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness in written English.
It could be used in a context where humor is being described, but it needs additional information to be fully understandable.
Example: "The movie was entertaining and funny in the way it portrayed everyday situations."
Alternatives: "and humorous in the" or "and amusing in the".
By the same token I have often heard that Brown can be brilliant, eloquent and funny in the right situation.
They are pleasant company: good looking but not too good looking, and funny in the way of real people making jokes rather than comedians doing material.
They have been "bright, smart, sexy and funny," in the words of Sara Bensman, the program director of Young Friends of Film, the group honoring Ms. Leigh.
But Lorrie Moore is alive, as are the people she writes about: dark and funny, in the language of the everyday, elevated to high art.
It's crazily surreal, engaging and funny in the best Marvel tradition, building to a whiplash-twist reveal that sports with the ever-present idea of duplicity and betrayal within the Avengers' ranks themselves.
What we said: Crazily surreal, engaging and funny in the best Marvel tradition, building to a whiplash-twist reveal that sports with the ever-present idea of duplicity and betrayal within the Avengers' ranks themselves.
It's one of the strongest (and funniest) in the collection, no small feat in our zombie-saturated cultural landscape.
There are also some more "lovelies" and "funnies" in the pipeline, and maybe another volume of memoirs.
Things get even uglier and funnier in the beautifully orchestrated overlapping conversations in Act II, which jumps the story to 2009.
However, for anyone paying attention (which might just be me), this effect is significantly magnified and funnier in the second-take version: "my brain works so fleet / I can outwit the heat".
His smooch with George Clooney was done clearly for "shocks" and cheap laughs but it would've been shocking and funnier in the 1980s to see two grown men kiss -- not now.
