Semi-funny

The speaker commenced by thrusting his head out of a sort of window on one side of the stage, and, having requested the audience not to believe a word he said or anything they saw, proceeded to make a great many semi-funny remarks, of which you could not hear one-half, and wished you couldn’t hear the other.

There is a time, however, when a faint gleam of hope arises in the breast of the semi-funny newspaper man, and that is election time.

Kunis then grabbed a microphone and launched into a semi-funny sketch in which she demanded that men stop saying, “We’re pregnant.”