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The phrase "was he funny" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when inquiring about someone's sense of humor or comedic performance in the past. Example: "After watching the stand-up show, I asked my friend, 'Was he funny?'"
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Was he funny?
[audience laughs] Bam, was he funny.
Well, yes, but was he funny?
"You haven't lived until you've died at 3 o'clock in the morning at the Bungalow Colony where the woman is hitting her husband in the side, going, 'Morris, was he funny — what did he say?' " Mr. Rosen recalled.
Not only was he funny, but I found that his troubled childhood as an isolated Jewish boy in the predominantly black town of Roosevelt, N.Y., also dovetailed nicely with my unhappy childhood as an isolated Jewish-Iranian-socialist boy in Pittsburgh.
God, was he funny -- and sweet".
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Nor is he funny.
Was he always funny?
Was he trying to be funny?
He's funny, he's witty.
He's funny, he's great.
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