In America, for instance, there are opportunities galore for funny people--standup comedy, late-night talk shows, etc.
But of course, "Funny People" starred Adam Sandler, which likely contributed to the strong opening.
Bruno did worse than Sacha Baron Cohen's previous film, Borat, and Universal produced Judd Apatow's first box office disappointment, Funny People.
This is 40 is Apatow's fourth turn at feature film directing, following The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up and Funny People.
It calls to mind the scene in stand-up comedian movie "Funny People, " when Jonah Hill's chubby comic scolds Seth Rogen's for losing weight.
It's funny, people on the political left spent eight years calling Reagan a bigot.
It's funny how people are still people wherever you find them.
"It's really funny how quick people are to judge, " Noah said the other day.
He'll give them access to some of the most fascinating, terrifying, troubled, funny, endearing people they'll ever encounter.
Although there is nothing inherently funny about two people being romantically thwarted for nearly two decades, Waiting turns, page by careful page, into a deliciously comic novel.
It's funny how the people who claim to be most devoted to the proposition that men and women are equal also are most devoted to the notion that all women do, or should, think alike.
Calling it a sport is likely to earn you funny looks from people who see it as a shady pastime that falls, on the respectability scale, somewhere south of bar darts and north of cockfighting.
Ms. Cuoco is on-screen longer during the commercials, has more lines and delivers them with her usual flair for the funny, and people are likely slightly more aware of her given the weekly platform which Big Bang Theory affords her.
It can be very funny, but some people are very rude and they slam the phone down.
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It was funny because only the people involved knew how important it was to have that platform properly aligned.
And the funny thing is that people make phone call to our company, and if people pick up the phone they still say, 'Hello, Alibaba!
Existential threats have a funny way of making people very nervous, and the long arm of the law is usually the first place to turn to when that happens.
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It is funny, but the people in life who are primarily motivated by money or security often end up losing whatever they gain, whereas those who follow their passion end up making far more money than they ever desired.
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But drunken driving would be less funny to everyone if more people were greeted at a checkpoint with a Breathalyzer.
They're "northerners" -- people who talk funny, rip you off in business and have nothing to teach you except ingenious ways to slice watermelon.
She was so full of life, so funny, so interested in people, so kind and so good to all of us writers, who came after her.
In two, people are making funny faces.
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People look at you funny when you tell them, as if you did this to yourself.
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If you follow some people who are very funny, you can count on getting a little boost when you need it.
It is a funny sort of peace in which people are regularly maimed and driven from their homes by paramilitary thugs.
"People have seen Crocodile Dundee so they think Australians are wonderful people, clever, funny, humorous, masculine, outdoorsy and all the rest of it, " he said.
Predicting what people will think is funny is hard to do, but there always seems to be massive interest in the latest popular cat video.
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As the oldest of his two sons (David Krumholtz, who's very funny) points out, other people live their lives like this, so why shouldn't the Abramowitzes?
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Sorry, all very common advice, but the funny thing is very few people follow it.
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