Sentence examples for authentically funny from inspiring English sources

Jupitus on his knees crying "Noooo!" as his daughter's boyfriend comes to stay overnight is an authentically funny image, and it ends his tentative return to standup in belated triumph.

What a relief that, when Trillin failed to apologize for his poem, I could toss his New Yorker issue into the trash and turn instead to Jade Chang's The Wangs vs. the World, an authentically funny novel about a Chinese American family on a road trip, or to The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies, an expansive fictional account of Chinese Americans through the past century.

What a relief that, when Trillin failed to apologize for his poem, I could toss his New Yorker issue into the trash and turn instead to Jade Chang's The Wangs vs. the World, an authentically funny novel about a Chinese American family on a road trip, or to The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies, an expansive fictional account of Chinese Americans through the past century.

Rogen is, to my mind, an authentically, irrepressibly funny person — who at times tries to do too good a job of repressing it.

Rogen is, to my mind, an authentically, irrepressibly funny person who at times tries to do too good a job of repressing it.

The film clearly nods to old-school Hollywood and Vegas, but it has a sharp edge that keeps it funny and authentically modern, with Steve Kloves's streetwise and sometimes surprisingly elegiac script summing up the seediness and melancholy of 80s glamour.

However widely "One Day" is imitated, it will be hard to match Mr. Nicholls's easy blend of bumbling insecurities (Emma's), overweening showbiz arrogance (Dexter's, when he becomes a television star), slow but sure pacing, humorous though seldom outright funny dialogue and authentically troubling coming-of-age issues.

Howard's fond reworking of the 30s newspaper comedies (The Front Page, His Girl Friday) is lively and funny, with an at times authentically sharp edge (sometimes a bit tabloid-simple too, but never mind).

He was smarter, funnier, more resourceful, and more authentically driven.

All this is to say that Fox has been comfortably the better network over the last few weeks: sharper, funnier, more varied, and more true to an authentically American culture of the sport.

JS Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop It is an enduring mystery that a book about a grubby boy at prep school (the authentically dreadful St Custard's) in the 1950s should still be quite so funny.