Its resonances are provided by the richly evocative, sometimes very funny, leading performances.

His is a funny and finely tuned performance.

Adam Sandler's fiercely funny performance is filled with worldly wisdom.

Quite possibly one of the most brilliant and funny live performances I ve ever seen.

Hers is a bold, miraculously funny and complete performance.

And Pfeiffer gives a funny, scrappy performance that makes you feel a committed teacher's fire to make a difference.

It's a funny performance, reflecting the irreverence that should be automatic for these awards.

They thought their idea for a show would not work, because of the strange and funny performances.

This is a piercingly honest and occasionally extremely funny performance.

The movie is not great, but you'd never know it from her rich, funny performance.