Sentence examples for how very funny from inspiring English sources

I'm indebted to the perceptive New York Review of Books essay by my colleague Giles Harvey for pointing out how very funny this book can be.

The Collected Stories, by Lorrie Moore (Faber, £9.99) It's astonishing, considering the depths of her subject matter - death, divorce, suicide, Iraq, the horrors of the American midwest - how very funny Lorrie Moore's stories are, and how intensely pleasurable to read.

(Hwang also wrote the book for the 2002 revival of "Flower Drum Song Kwanan starred in the 1961 film version. Imagine what the playwright could do with Kwan's life!) But Hwang's themes don't convey how very funny he is, too — he's no pedagogue; he's a wit.

As the writer, you will always know exactly what you are trying to say and how very funny or sad certain parts are, but this is not always the case with an audience.

Too much discussion of the many and fascinating ontological questions raised by Being a Beast risks obscuring how very strange, funny and English it is.

When they were good, he called her "And How," which wasn't very funny, but as far as he could tell she liked it.

"Our grandchildren still find it very funny how we used to struggle at AU meetings with English, French and Portuguese interpretations," she said, describing an Africa half a century into the future where Swahili had replaced the languages of the former colonial powers.

When we would roll into court I would always try and keep a civil relationship with my ex and sometimes it was very funny how I would try to talk and communicate like normal with her and her parents and I found it funny that it couldn't be done.

Francis Wheen published his brilliant - and very funny - How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World (Fourth Estate).

David: Your new film GBF is very funny in how direct it addresses the gay culture teens live within now.

"How to Sharpen Pencils" is very funny — it's the work, let's not forget, of the guy responsible for "Get Your War On" — but it's no April Fools' joke, and it's no bathroom book.