Sentence examples for be funny even when from inspiring English sources

These men know how to be funny, even when the material they're given fails to be.

"No," Ms. Louis-Dreyfus said, shaking her sadly, "that wouldn't be funny". Even when she is not playing Elaine, Ms. Louis-Dreyfus speaks in a convincing, but it turns out misleading, New York accent.

With a drunken engineer, a pompous minister of the gospel and Stepin Fetchit for his engine crew, the Doc stays in the race, but you will not learn here by what devices he manages to defeat his rival.Somehow, under the knowing direction of John Ford, the hanging motif continues to be funny even when the unhappy victim is standing on the scaffold with the noose around his neck.

I think any kind of art form should be funny, even when something is what we deem dramatic, anything that is honest can be laughed at.

In all seriousness, people expect him to be funny even when the stage is his kitchen and he's tossing oatmeal, mashed bananas and sliced chocolate bars into the Aunt Jemima mix.

Mr. Murray was funny even when the script was not.

And CBS also has Deion Sanders, who is funny even when he doesn't plan to be.

His model, he added, was Jack Lemmon, who "even when he was being funny, even when his performance was very, very big, had the ability to invest himself emotionally in what he did, so it was always faithful, and that made it very watchable".

Yes, the comedy is funny — even when it's not laugh-out-loud funny, it's sparklingly inventive and charmingly loopy — but, above all, it has the religious intensity and spiritual resonance that marks all of Hess's other films, and it extends his world of ideas into wild new realms, extends his vision into darker corners of existence than he had formerly contemplated.

To let go of the idea of prestige or status and dress up in a ridiculous outfit and dance around, to sing songs about bananas and moose and a worm named Herman, to cheer for the other team even when I really wanted to win, to remember to laugh when something is funny, even if I have been angry for most of the day.

It's funny, even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into your life, I do remember vaguely at roughly five years old reading versions of Alice in Wonderland.