Sentence examples for attempt to be funny from inspiring English sources

Riley, in what was clearly an attempt to be funny, said that the Heat should use a "Gestapo group" to get the fans to change allegiances.

In a warped attempt to be funny, Cruz attributed to Sen. Durbin a frightening McCarthy line.

Most of us attempt to be funny on the phone with a friend, over the dinner table, or in the hallway at work.

Brent Piaskoski, executive producer of CTV's Spun Out, starring Dave Foley, tweeted the above in what he subsequently called a "hasty attempt to be funny".

Scherzer then said his comments were taken out of context, that his "wet newspaper" remark was just "an attempt to be funny" and he thought nothing more than that both leagues should play by the same rules.

2016 is also the year when Calvin Trillin published a poem of racist doggerel about Chinese food in The New Yorker, then defended it as an attempt to be funny.

And if, like me, you enjoy attempting to be funny, work in a bit of humour.

Dean Burnett will be attempting to be funny on stage with Robin Ince at the Guardian Live event about his debut book The Idiot Brain, taking place in London on June 2nd.

Perhaps Mr. Cook is some new kind of conceptual satirist whose shtick is to behave in the manner of a person attempting to be funny without actually being, you know, funny.

Man On The Moon cannot risk attempting to be funny on its own account; it has to establish a complementary tone of respectful, bittersweet drama as a showcase for the implied comic genius.

If he were genuinely attempting to be funny, somebody would have stepped in and stopped him.