WordNet
n. an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line) [syn: good story]
Usage examples of "funny story".
Danny was at the centre of a little circle telling them some funny story.
Inevitably, Weber was the one to break them up with a funny story or an insight that brought us back to noise and made breathing easier.
Hell, today I can't even recall how Slippery Joe Maser ended up married to two women at the same time, except that it was a profoundly funny story each of the three times-I learned it.
She welcomed me to the zoo, and told me a funny story about a fellow artist named Colt which I will not repeat as even I don't believe it.
We are interrupted by Raoul, who says that he has been looking for me for days, and who has a funny story to tell us.
It was a harmless enough tale for most of the local hobbits, no doubt: just a funny story about those funny people away beyond the River.
Indeed, by the end of the week, Penfold was able to circulate a funny story to the papers that Sir John had announced from his hospital bed that it was obvious that the most profitable thing a visiting star could do was to go to bed and send his understudy on in his place.