Advising the audience in comprehending the Louise de Vilmorin texts used by Poulenc in "Metamorphoses," Bullock was firm yet funny: "They are erotic, they are sensual, and they are completely surreal — so, good luck".
As a teacher, he was the perfect combination of firm, professional, and funny.
Kontraband, a firm in London, takes funny, bizarre, conspiratorial or otherwise interesting video clips from its clients and places them on its own site and on popular video-sharing sites such as YouTube.com or Google Video.
Some readers' eyes might glaze over trying to decipher "Blackstone Unit Wins in No-Lose Codere Trade," an excellent piece of pure reporting by Bloomberg's Mary Childs, Julie Miecamp, and Stephanie Ruhle about the private-equity firm Blackstone and some funny business in the credit-default-swap market.
It is funny, yet firm if you want to reject someone with it.
He was funny and generous, firm of purpose, and clearly loved his family.
Chicago tech entrepreneur Jason Fried, who runs a hot Web-software and development firm called 37signals, last month slipped a funny, fake press release onto his company's blog.
After adjusting for the funny stuff, those two firms' common shareholders still made losses in the third quarter.
"What the PR firm said was, 'Oh, we just meant to be funny.' That's something that everyone uses these days when they make an inappropriate racialized portrayal.
Kidd's art-student protagonist from "Monkeys" lands at an eccentric ad firm in the '60s, with results both grievous and funny.
Which is why Irish whiskey firm Tullamore Dew is touring an exhibition of the best funny banners around the country over the next month.
