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causing or intended to cause laughter
hilarious cartoons that the whole family can enjoy the clown's hilarious antics
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Recent Examples of hilarious
The game became the butt of jokes and a slew of memes for its hilarious visual glitches, a legacy that leaves Epler feeling torn.
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George Yang, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024
In the absence of traditional cohost costumes this year, The View still soldiered on with its increasingly hilarious legacy of dressing children in controversial Halloween costumes in celebration of the spooky holiday.
—EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Amid all the relationship drama is a hilarious subplot involving Mandy’s brother Connor.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 31 Oct. 2024
With beaks chock-full of vegetation, these seabirds - always somewhat clumsy-looking on land - were simply hilarious.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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George Yang, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024
In the absence of traditional cohost costumes this year, The View still soldiered on with its increasingly hilarious legacy of dressing children in controversial Halloween costumes in celebration of the spooky holiday.
—EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Amid all the relationship drama is a hilarious subplot involving Mandy’s brother Connor.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 31 Oct. 2024
With beaks chock-full of vegetation, these seabirds - always somewhat clumsy-looking on land - were simply hilarious.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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This simultaneously funny and profound musical spins around a teenage girl (the lovable Carolee Carmello) suffering from a rare genetic disease that makes her age five times faster than normal.Karen D'Souza, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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The jokes just aren’t funny enough — though there is one killer line about Shehzada, which was one of Aaryan’s major flops — and the scares aren’t terrifying enough.Anupama Chopra, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
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Reddit Reacts Reddit users were entertained by the cake's humorous message.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Others offered a more humorous take on the situation, with one writing that whether the couple picks the name for a child depends largely on what the name actually is.Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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Miner will also look to generate live standup comedy gigs for top comedic talent, while also producing original audio and video content for New Metric Media’s direct to consumer channels.Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
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After a brief impression of Judy, Paris offered some insight into one of the girls’ foremost comedic influences growing up.Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2024
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Though there are many examples that are less amusing.Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
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Hausman notes that the algorithm does not work perfectly, and like modern chatbots, the robots sometimes fail in surprising and amusing ways.Will Knight, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
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To a normal person outside of politics, that sounds comical.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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But the wedding, of course, had some comical complications.Marc Berman, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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The duplication of effort, the ridiculous hours, and the endless inefficiencies were invisible.Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 10 Nov. 2024
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The man’s ridiculous splashing now awoke a strange tender feeling in Craint, such as one might feel for something dear and helpless.Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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To name just one example: After an opening act filled with lurid cartel violence, Emilia Pérez gives us a comic number about gender-reassignment surgery.Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2024
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Is that going to be a straight adaptation or a comic version?Frank DiGiacomo, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
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The character of Jessi at the beginning was a little hysterical, stuck in her world, like a puppet.Griselda Flores, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2024
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Rachel Carson's critics depicted her as hysterical, mystical, and witchy. Vampires Haunted Places and Spaces And Other Spooky Things Editor’s note: This list is updated periodically, most recently on October 28, 2024.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 28 Oct. 2024
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