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Recent Examples of unfunny
But from a pure comedy standpoint, the joke was just basic—and unfunny.
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Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
Ahead of the show’s second season, BuzzFeed ran a delicious tell-all in which the first season’s many failures (like inconsistent plotting and unfunny jokes) were explained.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
Labored and unfunny, that film, from 2016, sounded like a cinematic death rattle rather than peals of joyous wedding bells.
—Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
Until the plane lands in Uganda, the show is still hilarious, but the sequences in Africa are grimly unfunny, especially as black actors are forced to sell jokes about curing AIDS by sodomizing babies.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
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Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
Ahead of the show’s second season, BuzzFeed ran a delicious tell-all in which the first season’s many failures (like inconsistent plotting and unfunny jokes) were explained.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
Labored and unfunny, that film, from 2016, sounded like a cinematic death rattle rather than peals of joyous wedding bells.
—Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
Until the plane lands in Uganda, the show is still hilarious, but the sequences in Africa are grimly unfunny, especially as black actors are forced to sell jokes about curing AIDS by sodomizing babies.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfunny
Adjective
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Worst of all, Phillips has intentionally or unintentionally created a bizarro, humorless version of My Cousin Vinny.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
4 Oct. 2024
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The Shoshone and Paiute characters, meanwhile, are solemnly noble or dangerously impassioned but invariably humorless.—
Mike Hale,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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As holidays go, however, Flag Day can feel a bit lame.—
Kevin Fisher-Paulson,
San Francisco Chronicle,
8 June 2021
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My 11-year-old loved watching the pups roll balls and play a giant floor piano, but for non-dog owners (guilty as charged), parts of the series—like dressing dogs in little hats and outfits for a Parisian fashion show—feel lame.—
Tim Neville,
Outside Online,
23 Nov. 2020
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“Unfunny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfunny. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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