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Peyton Chester/What makes somthing funny

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Peyton Chester/What makes somthing funny

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Is when someone does somthing without trying to do it.

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when some one does something funny but unexpected

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Fred Nicholson/What makes something funny 2nd post

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Fred Nicholson/What makes something funny 2nd post

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When something make others laugh or happy

http://puu.sh/33nHc

http://puu.sh/33nHq

http://puu.sh/33nHo

http://puu.sh/33kBM

http://puu.sh/33nF3

http://puu.sh/33nFq

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Tikhon Kazankov/ What makes something funny, 2nd Post

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Tikhon Kazankov/ What makes something funny, 2nd Post

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When you get an unexpected result or an opinion/ reaction

of a topic to which you can relate to.

This is a link to a website which talks about laughing from a scientific

point of view http://sites.psu.edu/cas137hfashionblog/2013/01/30/pas2-why-do-we-laugh-why-are-we-ticklish/

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When something unexpected happens to one of your friends or family that makes it funny.

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Gillian McMichael/ What makes something funny

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Gillian McMichael/ What makes something funny

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What makes something funny is what something someone is doing that is not usual and not expected to happen makes you laugh, Lots of people have different ideas about what is funny and what isn't funny, what makes something funny is all up to you and your reaction to a face, noise, sound action that doesn't look or sound exactly normal and seems random. :)

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Jordyn Janshen/What makes something funny.

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Jordyn Janshen/What makes something funny.

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When something completely random happens

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Samantha Wilson/What makes something funny (con.)

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Samantha Wilson/What makes something funny (con.)

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The definishtion of funny...

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: affording light mirth and laughter : amusing

His account of the war came in bits and pieces, sometimes bloody, sometimes funny. - Robert Penn Warren

Examples of funny in a Sentence

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Word History

Adjective

1739, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Noun

1852, in the meaning defined at sense 1

The first known use of funny was in 1739

Dictionary Entries Near funny

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affording light mirth and laughter : amusing; seeking or intended to amuse : facetious; differing from the ordinary in a suspicious, perplexing, quaint, or eccentric way : peculiar -often used as a sentence modifier... See the full definition

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Samantha Wilson/What makes something funny

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Samantha Wilson/What makes something funny

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Funny is an action that causes a response from people such as: laughter, giggles, jumping, etc. If something makes a person laugh it could be people doing something stupid, it could be a pun or just a simple joke.

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Brady Engelbrecht/What makes someting funny

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Brady Engelbrecht/What makes someting funny

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When someone falls on their face

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when some one does something funny but unexpected

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Natasha Lehman/What makes something funny

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Natasha Lehman/What makes something funny

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stuff is funny when it makes us happy and makes us want to laugh. eg.

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Brady Engelbrecht/What makes something funny

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Brady Engelbrecht/What makes something funny

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When somebody falls on their face

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Mitch Buhrmann/What makes something funny.

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Mitch Buhrmann/What makes something funny.

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When somebody dose something very stupid and gives us something to laugh at.

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When someone makes a stupid face.

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Peyton Chester/What makes something funny

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Peyton Chester/What makes something funny

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something is funny when do not expect it and you connect with the joke.

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When someone laughs you laugh with them.

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Chris Wilson/ What makes something funny

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Chris Wilson/ What makes something funny

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when someone does something funny, or says something that makes you laugh.

Such as Jim Carrey in the movie Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

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Funny sceene from Ace Ventura Pet Detective, Jim Carrey

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Gunnar Bouwman/What makes something funny

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Gunnar Bouwman/What makes something funny

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Something is funny when you connect some way with it
which could be a inside joke or something you have seen before

also i think most things that are funny can only happen when your

with other people.

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Cameron Comnenos/What makes something funny

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Cameron Comnenos/What makes something funny

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When somebody does something random

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Fred Nicholson/What makes something funny

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Fred Nicholson/What makes something funny

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Something funny is something that has us

experience the emotion of joy

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Cameron Comnenos/What makes something funny

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Cameron Comnenos/What makes something funny

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When

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Daniel Agcaoili/What makes something funny

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Daniel Agcaoili/What makes something funny

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funyness us created when something funny happens

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Tikhon Kazankov/ What makes something funny.

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Tikhon Kazankov/ What makes something funny.

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When you get an unexpected result or an opinion/ reaction.

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When someone says something completely stupid.