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Recent Examples of unfunny
All that’s left is some hopeless cringe, stunt guest stars and unfunny jokes.
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Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Critics called it awkward, creepy, and unfunny.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
After a strained and generally unfunny introduction that loosely connects The Office to the new series, The Paper takes us to Toledo and the offices of the Toledo Truth-Teller.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Somehow this ineptly plotted affair lured Keke Palmer into its lair and her comedy chops all but gets handcuffed by an illogical, unfunny screenplay.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
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Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Critics called it awkward, creepy, and unfunny.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
After a strained and generally unfunny introduction that loosely connects The Office to the new series, The Paper takes us to Toledo and the offices of the Toledo Truth-Teller.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Somehow this ineptly plotted affair lured Keke Palmer into its lair and her comedy chops all but gets handcuffed by an illogical, unfunny screenplay.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfunny
Adjective
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As such, Eddy is off to tour the South as a salesman as the boys spend the summer with their humorless granny (Ellen Ratner) and their childlike Aunt Bella (Renee Rogoff), who works in the store.—
Charles Lewis III,
Mercury News,
10 Apr. 2026
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The film’s premise is almost as ill-advised and cringeworthy as its execution is crushingly humorless.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The band felt embarrassed wearing those lame outfits.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
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Full lame-duck seasons like the one coming up here are rare; and for good reason.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
19 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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For some, the fundamental flaw will be that, despite the title, the comic material (mostly culled from vintage gags of the period) the characters perform onstage sounds painfully unamusing to contemporary ears.—
Leslie Felperin,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Oct. 2017
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“Unfunny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfunny. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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