Sentence examples for depend on funny from inspiring English sources
But as Mr. Gelbart would be the first to admit, when you start to depend on funny lines, you know you are in trouble.
This decline was caused in part by the passage of time--a dismaying number of Thurber pieces depend on funny things being said by colored servants, immigrant workingmen, etc.--and was accelerated by what Wilfred Sheed has called Burton Bernstein's "coroner's report of a biography".
Its claim to balance the budget in a decade depends on funny money -- assuming faster growth, keeping Obamacare's tax revenue while repealing its benefits, etc.
You don't have to drag out the laugh, just chuckle for a few seconds depending on how funny the joke was supposed to be.
That doesn't mean that Mr. Williams isn't funny, only that it's discomfiting that so many children's films depend on voices that are funny only because they exploit ethnic and racial stereotypes.
We come to depend on it to lead us to the funny article on TheOnion.com or the roving food cart serving goat curry.
Mostly, though, it will depend on something much simpler, and much more difficult: being funny.
Since the outcome of any referendum will partly depend on the persistence or otherwise of atavistic fear and loathing, in a funny (or not so funny) way, the Fuhrer manoeuvre has identified one of the things they need to discuss.
It would be funny, if the future of the internet didn't depend on this incredibly disingenuous maneuvering.
(Riverhead, $22.95). A funny, intelligent, generous novel in which an incompetent man and an impossible youth learn to depend on each other.
