"what a funny" is not an acceptable sentence in written English.
If you would like to use it as an exclamation, you could write something like: "What a funny story!".
The old woman looks at the strange bird and finally says "What a funny-looking pigeon!" She then proceeds to clip its wings, straighten the beak, and trim its claws in order to change the appearance to suit her own ideas of what a bird should look like.
Roughhouse action and a smart-aleck comment: that's what made a funny picture, that's what made a picture funny". "Funny Papers" is a homage to such venerable funnies as "The Yellow Kid" and "Buster Brown"; it is also a comic treatment of the brief heyday of a brutal and realistic art form that evolved into harmless entertainment.
His fondness for comic fiction (Waugh, Osbert Lancaster) reminds us what a brilliantly funny writer and speaker James himself is.
They empty the closets as well as a feather bolster — what a delightfully funny, feathery mess!
This enameled-looking creature is definitely a prisoner of sex, though not a la Norman Mailer, and what a fascinating, funny and disturbing spectacle her incarceration becomes.
