Sentence examples for playing funny from inspiring English sources

There was a D (the one a ninth above middle C, in case you were wondering) that was playing funny.

At ABC's upfront presentation on Tuesday, advertisers seemed to enjoy the clips of Leah Remini, Jenny McCarthy and Chelsea Handler playing funny, frazzled moms.

Mr. Duplass (the writer and director, with his brother Jay, of films like "Baghead," "Cyrus" and "Jeff, Who Lives at Home") is good at playing funny and sensitive without overdoing either quality.

Full of texture and action, they feature bread dough that looks as if you could reach out and knead it, tiny quilts that appear soft and warm, animals engaged in everything from planting seeds to playing funny games.

He accused them of playing funny buggers, and worse; but the fact was, for all his meticulous logging in 70 notebooks of every move he made, he did not seem to have registered that two and two did not add up to five.And so came the great fall, on a sunny spring day: Remembrance day, as it happened.

When the band first appeared in 1994, playing funny, taut songs that combined the stuttering tenacity of the Manchester punk legends the Buzzcocks with the wit of songwriters like Ray Davies of the Kinks, Supergrass quickly gained a reputation as Britpop's lovable clown princes.

Memory plays funny tricks; it caresses one's own prejudice.

Sexually and in daily life, we play funny little games with each other.

That stuff could play serious or play funny, but it would engage viewers in a way that they aren't now".

Life plays funny tricks: Icahn, the well-known corporate raider, is now in the medicine business.

Sport plays funny tricks on the mind, and most teams have had their fair share of failures and moments they would rather forget.