He called the joke, "pretty funny," speaking with a smile that, slightly forced, perhaps suggested that he permits such a shenanigan but wants nothing to do with it.
I can't wait! 4 06 PM: Lee Smolin is being very unintentionally funny, speaking about the whole slew of people who send him unsolicited "solutions" to the biggest problems of quantum physics.
It's a bleak existence (a bleakness John Lee Beatty suitably captures with his sets for the red-lacquered Chinese restaurant and steel-gray metal storefront where the action takes place), and the fact it's all so funny speaks volumes about the American psyche.
The Times recently caught up with Hall, who is thoughtful and deadpan funny, spoke about his new play, his career and his rescue dog.
Smile, look right into the camera and say something nice or something funny, speak from your heart just like you sing from your heart and you'll win.
If your aim is to be funny, speak only when you want to be funny.
Was funny Clement Freud ever funny when speaking in the Commons as a Liberal MP?
In any case, Ms. Harry soon found her footing with a dryly funny spoken-word tribute to her hosts, citing their cheekiness, irony and "pluralism of style".
Elsewhere, "Jetplane" is a very funny spoken-word narrative set at the head of an airport queue, while "Hittite Man" delves into ancient history, with a guitar sound just one remove from Joe Meek's "Telstar".
The ensemble hasn't a weak link, and features a pair of actresses (Veanne Cox as the emergent lunatic, Joanna, and Olga Sosnovska as Lucille Cadeau, the easily sozzled sexpot who manages to be quite funny without speaking a word of English) who do extremely well with one-dimensional roles.
These days, reading the funnies and speaking Yiddish won't help a Mayor much, as it did the Little Flower — it may be more useful to have your own YouTube channel and speak Tagalog — but at least the promise of a Mayor for all the people, which is what the LaGuardia legacy evokes, is a nice role to keep in the repertory.
