Sentence examples for nearly funny from inspiring English sources

Fluffy, repetitive and not nearly funny enough, "Mansome" features some token Spurlock showmanship.

Which is nearly funny, considering I'm a debt collector with the Tax Office.

The bleakness of early winter the short, hazy days, the bony trees, the way the sky grows dense and unanimated, a sagging gray blanket can, on the right day, seem nearly funny.

(The virginal outfits are nearly funny in their broad strokes — did no one in her circle think to say, "A little on the nose"?) Performing adulthood becomes dangerous when the performance is so limiting.

The police scenes, now transferred to a band of bumblers at New Scotland Yard, aren't nearly funny enough to account for the amount of time they consume, though this is no fault of the actors.

"Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian) for a flood of strong language, sexual references and drug jokes that aren't nearly funny enough.

But, in patches, this is almost funny and nearly exciting.

Everything is the same, but it's not nearly as funny". "Ashton Kutcher is not funny," chimes in the baby of the group, sixtysomething John Rappaport, an award-winning writer-producer who worked on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" and "MASH," talking about Sheen's "Two and Half Men" replacement.

While Mr. Langella is nearly always funny, he is ultimately as cuddly as a cobra.

They are not nearly as funny or entertaining as his books and stories, however, and they aren't much deeper.

Turkey of the Year Dear Lupin, Apollo Theatre Insufferably smug; not nearly as funny as it imagined; routinely misogynist.