But he will make dead-eyed concessions to funny truths, as his friends and allies find.
This current gatherum of hard and funny truths spares neither the author's pride nor her audience's, but it does salve wounds, and many of Ephron's insights are bound to come in handy.
While the nurse chuckled at the funny truth-phrasing, I stared at the popcorn ceiling and wondered how I could possibly reply.
But in a story fraught with the danger of sentimentality, Bowker located a sort of comic truth about an innocent at home and Jones made that truth both funny and movingly real.
Oswalt says, "We cannot surrender being the rude, funny, obnoxious truth tellers.
"But he did funny and truth, and so does this movie – beautifully".
The original story, "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way?" (Action Comics 775) was a better discussion piece than actual story.
War is hell, to be sure, but when it's not, it's boring as hell: this is the sad, funny, ironic, infuriating truth about the kind of job we do, and the way we do it when the guns are mostly silent.
It's funny but the truth.
The prank was hysterically funny, but in truth, the prank was less outlandish than reality.
