Sentence examples for funny instead from inspiring English sources

(Theater critics called his performances "painful to witness" and "screamingly funny instead of sad").

This ignoble view of human nature, with sharper writing, could have been funny; instead it's just dispiriting.

Often, that includes a public effort to make condoms sound sexy or funny instead of merely clinical.

"We were funny instead of super-serious all the time," a Guerrilla Girl known as "Gertrude Stein" said the other day.

There's a genuine love here for the neo-noir tropes that the film so breezily inverts and it's never smarmy when it can be funny instead.

I also remember controversial discussions around questions like: How can one show working-class people being happy and funny instead of complaining about their hard work and bad conditions?

Sneaky-funny instead of brassy, it is interested not in extremity but in small-bore observation.

(O'Brien later tweeted a rebuke: "I wish one of my writers would focus on making my show funnier instead of tweeting stupid things about the state of late night comedy").

I wish one of my writers would focus on making my show funnier instead of tweeting stupid things about the state of late night comedy.

It was easier to be the funny friend instead of the pretty friend.

The funny number, instead, is the profits of foreign companies operating in the United States, which seem very low.