How to Use funny in a Sentence

funny

1 of 2 adjective

• It feels funny to be back here again.
• He's a very funny guy.
• A funny thing happened to me the other day.
• She has some funny ideas about how to run a company.
• He told a funny story.
• My car has been making a funny noise lately.
• It's funny that you should say that—I was just thinking the same thing myself.
• There's something funny going on here.
• What are you laughing at? There's nothing funny about it.
• And how funny that that's the place that turned it all around for me.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Feb. 2024
• The ‘60s were funny ‘cause of all the funny mushrooms and grass.
  — Liza Lentini, Spin, 6 Oct. 2023
• Some of these were funny, and many earned high ratings.
  — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023
• In her case, the early funny stuff led to the later funnier stuff.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
• In one funny shot, King shared close-ups of the two women’s backsides.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
• Our job is to just try to stick to the truth, and whether the truth is perceived as scary or funny, that’s up to the audience.
  — Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2023
• This is supposed to be funny, or maybe shocking, in 2024.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 12 Jan. 2024
• This Uber Eats ad is a fun (if random) play on one of the year’s most genuinely funny memes.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2024
• Throw it back to Blake circa 2005 with this funny costume idea.
  — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 28 June 2023
• His youngest — a smart, funny, loves-to-sing, light-up-a-room kind of kid — was his fishing and camping buddy.
  — Heather Hollingsworth, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2024
• The gleeful, mischievous delight the Oompa Loompas take in the demise of those kids is so funny.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2023
• Very often, someone’s idea of what a thing is can be a funnier, weirder version of what the thing is.
  — Vulture, 18 Dec. 2023
• The couple describes their dog as laid back, funny, weird and very human-like.
  — Jessica Guay, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2024
• Carrie, here, is in a funny sort of in-between state, trying to figure out what the rest of her life might look like.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 21 June 2023
• Though there is a funny anecdote where Ben is not happy about being in a tank top.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2023
• Yet even with all of that as its foundation, this is a very, very darkly funny show.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2024
• Be funny, but don’t overdo it; be heartfelt, but don’t get too heavy.
  — Jean Garnett, The New Yorker, 10 July 2023
• Read ahead to discover a rundown of funny group chat names your squad will love.
  — Kori Williams, Seventeen, 7 July 2023
• So smart, so thoughtful, so funny.
  — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE, 31 Jan. 2026
• Mia, meanwhile, is grounded and funny and pulls attention throughout.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026
• That feature has since been covered over with concrete, so don’t get any funny ideas about sneaking into the palace after hours.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2026

funny

2 of 2 noun

• A lot of the plot hinges on him being against-type funny.
  — Manohla Dargis, Wesley Morris and A. O. Scott, New York Times, 18 July 2016
• Funny, tough to make sense of, and since that baloney is real, rotting.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• Lulled by the presence of innocents, the president made a couple of mild funnies.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 27 Oct. 2017
• Funny, nobody’s asking how much longer the 68-year-old is sticking around anymore.
  — Will Graves, The Seattle Times, 12 June 2017
• Funny, because that’s where this franchise has ended up, too.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 24 Aug. 2017
• Funny, then, that the biggest golf tournament win of his youth career would come about eight minutes from his home in Carlsbad.
  — Tod Leonard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 July 2017
• Sheridan clearly seems to find all this funny more than anything.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2026
• This poignant story is laugh-out-loud funny, too.
  — Caroline Carlson, Literary Hub, 2 Jan. 2026
• There is a dialogue-free scene involving drones and garbage disposal that is laugh-out-loud funny.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 3 Dec. 2025
• Lily Harrison’s script is laugh-out-loud funny while staying grounded and deeply relatable.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
• But while the ads are laugh-out-loud funny, the product is anything but a joking matter.
  — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2025