Sentence examples for funny answer from inspiring English sources

When you asked me what "banter" meant, I felt pressed to come up with a succinct, smart and funny answer.

C SHARP is a brilliantly funny answer to the clue "Key for someone with 20/20 vision?," as is "Ones who are hurting?" for SADISTS.

The question will challenge you to provide a funny answer, though we will also accept answers that are witty, sharp, amusing, ingenious, or whimsical.

I don't even have a funny answer, because the answer is absolutely this: when I get a million or any significant part thereof, I am buying a goddamn house.

The creative team at Goodby, Silverstein was seeking a funny answer to this question, said Joel Ewanick, global chief marketing officer at General Motors in Detroit: "After this catastrophe, what's going to be left?" The approval of the Twinkies parent, Hostess Brands, was sought by the agency before the commercial was filmed, he added.

Poor people fly away to find a country in which, "'Have a good day' means, really, 'have a good day'". Of course the funny answer is: myself.

So I should try to give funny answers?

I got a lot of funny answers, ranging from, that's a stupid question.

Points are awarded for correct or funny answers – presenter Chris Hardwick's excited yell of "Points!" has become the show's de facto catchphrase – and the triumphant panelist is deemed to have "won the internet" for the next 23.5 hours.

In a rehearsal for the first New York City performance of "Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me," Peter Sagal stood on the stage and refined his answer to the age-old question, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" Patience and practice are not sufficiently funny answers for this National Public Radio weekend comedy quiz show.

Six years ago I was on the writing staff for a topical comedy show that, to my eternal dismay, decided to spend most of one episode simply broadcasting screengrabs of that hoary old "kids write funny answers to exam questions" meme without adding anything new to it at all.