Sentence examples for knowing funny from inspiring English sources

September 21 2010 November 28 201010 In David Mamet's knowing, funny 1977 play (in revival at the Schoenfeld, under the sluggish direction of Neil Pepe), we watch the audience, as if from backstage, as two actors perform for it, and for each other in the privacy of their dressing room.

David Mamet's knowing, funny 1977 play, "A Life in the Theatre" (in revival at the Schoenfeld, under the sluggish direction of Neil Pepe), goes one better: we watch the audience members, as if from backstage, as two actors perform for them, and for each other in the privacy of their dressing room.

We feel the site is knowing, funny and stupid, and we didn't anticipate this being as zeitgeisty as it appears.

"Who would want to go to a party that actually lets you know where it is?" vents a very frustrated Neil Jeff Witzkee) in "Groove," the shambling but mostly knowing and funny comedy from the director Greg Harrison.

It's knowing and funny, logical and persuasive, and, in trying to persuade a woman to come across, it pays her the compliment of constructing fantastical reasoning.

She is also unexpectedly knowing and funny, tossing leading looks over her shoulder, and complaining of the absence of her duet partner Reba McEntire for the rearranged "I Say A Little Prayer" they ill-advisedly recorded in 2006.

Partly because of the simple delight of helping bring something so good into the world and knowing how funny it was, how unsettling and how full of human warmth.

If you're nostalgic for chasing down a rave gig across the city and arriving to find a pair of 16-year-olds discussing the merits of drum and bass versus jungle, then this mostly knowing and funny comedy is just the film for you.

But I was intrigued by the book's tone -- it was knowing and funny, not Penthouse Letters Column smarmy.

But in other towns it's funny knowing that people you don't know figure they know you.

It feels funny, knowing, and energetic.