Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) An insane asylum. (from the 20th c.)
WordNet
n. pejorative terms for an insane asylum [syn: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit]
Wikipedia
Funny farm may refer to:
- Funny farm (hospital), a pejorative slang term for a psychiatric hospital
- The Funny Farm (film), a 1983 film starring Peter Aykroyd
- Funny Farm (film), a 1988 film starring Chevy Chase
- Funny Farm (TV series), a Canadian musical comedy television series of the 1970s
- Funny Farm (play), a 1975 television play by Roy Minton
- Funny Farm, an album by King Kong
- Funny Farm, an album by Pip Skid
- Funny Farm (novel), a novel by Jay Cronley
Funny Farm is a 1988 American film starring Chevy Chase and Madolyn Smith. The film was adapted from a 1985 comedic novel of the same name by Jay Cronley. The movie was filmed on location in Vermont, mostly in Townshend, Vermont. It was the final film directed by George Roy Hill.
The Funny Farm was a Canadian television series shown on CTV during the 1974-1975 season.
Blake Emmons was host of the half-hour series, which was derivative of the more successful American Hee Haw series. The first episode was broadcast on 12 September 1974 and only one season was produced. The programme continued to be broadcast on CTV for at least two seasons, and was still airing as late as 1976. The cast included Bruce Gordon (credited as Ben Gordon), John Evans, Monica Parker, Yank Azman (credited as Jank Zajfman), Jayne Eastwood, Valri Bromfield and Linda Rennhoffer.
Funny Farm' is a 1975 television play written by Roy Minton and directed by Alan Clarke, broadcast as part of BBC 1's Play for Today series on 27 February 1975 (91 mins).
Alan Wellbeck ( Tim Preece) is a nurse in a mental hospital. His day-to-day struggles with personal feelings and troubled patients provide humour and pathos against the backdrop of a public institution.
Allan Surtees and Bernard Severn also featured in this production.
Category:1975 plays Category:English plays Category:Films directed by Alan Clarke Category:Play for Today
Usage examples of "funny farm".
What the hell brings you back from the five-sided funny farm, anyway?
Add to this the fact that she was pregnant and sick half the time, and you can understand why sometimes I couldn't tell whether she was ready for sainthood or the funny farm.
I had wandered into a funny farm and was locked up with the inmates.
Would the psychiatrist chase after her or worse still send somebody else after her with a straitjacket, some tranquillises and a free ticket to the local funny farm?
More than once the various lawmakers and town officials had suggested to Nick that he should either lock his mother up in the house every day while he was next door in the store and every night while he was asleep, or, better yet, deposit her in the state funny farm down in the capital and make everybody involved rest that much easier.