To have one, actors choose an evening when no performance is planned and show their own funny plays for each other.

It is a fine little play, both funny and poignant.

Over all, this is a good production of a fine and funny play.

Solemn as its heart is, this is a very funny play.

We will have funny plays and musicals, eventually, but this is a tough world.

So how can it be that "Jeffrey" is the funniest play of this season and maybe last season, too?

It is a situation that Moliere turned into some of the funniest plays ever written.

Some blasphemous young fellow could write a very funny play.

Frank Rich, who had called it "the funniest play written in my lifetime", wrote that the film is "one of the worst ever made."

So encumbered, one is likely to forget just how funny the play really is.