Agnieszka Holland created the only Holocaust movie that simultaneously tickles the funny bone and stings the heart.

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This movie aims for the tear ducts and the funny bone as ruthlessly as the big action-fantasy hits go after the viscera.

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And he occasionally throws in the funny bone from left field, as he did in a recent post about the best canine college mascots.

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Tug at the heart or pound on the funny bone. 80% of the Super Bowl ads in recent years have taken a humor themed approach.

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Crack open Lady of the Snakes on the beach, and I predict your funny bone and brain will be exercised while your bathing suit stays dry.

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Touch your heart, or a nerve, or your funny bone.

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Amid its pious devotion to the woebegone, there are scenes that manage to twitch into life and hit a nerve, perhaps because they also bump the funny bone.

NEWYORKER: Hot and Bothered

Our project was born, not out of a high-minded mission to make the masses love science, but out of desperation to tickle the cerebral cortex along with the funny bone.

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He has built a career assuming the existence of a universal funny bone, performing not just in Britain but also in France, Iceland, the Netherlands, the United States, Canada, and Sweden.

ECONOMIST: Eddie Izzard