The sentence 'is doing something funny' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe a person or situation that is humorous or amusing. For example: "My brother is doing something funny; I can hear him laughing from down the hall."
Comic Relief is doing something funny with your money.
They'll just laugh at the fact that somebody is doing something funny with their leg".
Pettitte said no. "Was there ever a moment where you looked at that man, dressed or undressed, that you thought, this guy is doing something funny?" Attanasio said, asking if Pettitte had ever suspected Clemens was using drugs.
"I wonder if they're doing something funny with the climate".
South Africa captain AB de Villiers admitted he was worried about the claims ahead of the meeting at The Oval. "If they are doing something funny with the ball it's definitely a concern, yes, but we've got no proof of that," said the 29-year-old Proteas skipper.
(I can only imagine while this was going on, somewhere in the writer's room, Tim Robinson was doing something funny).
Levi was too modest to reply, but he must have been doing something funny because I heard giggles in the background.
It helps if the characters are doing something funny.
On Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross's "Sachsgate" affront of 2008, Armstrong added, "appalling, over-the-line-stepping as it was, I could write a thesis on why they were doing something extremely funny".
He is a great teacher, always explaining why you should be doing something and he's very engaging and funny.
It's worthwhile locating the movie in this tradition, by way of a thumbnail comic taxonomy of three ways for a movie to be funny (with an asterisk): Doing something funny (here's Harry Langdon, from 1925).
