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* MrFanservice: Ben Baccaro in ''I Totally Funniest'' is an example of this. Whenever he tells a joke, he ripples his muscles, and he has plenty of screaming fangirls in his audience.
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* FriendToAllChildren: Jamie ''adores'' kids and any time he encounters a group of them, he takes time to acknowledge and listen to them
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* HappilyAdopted: Ultimately, Uncle Frankie takes custody of Jamie, who is absolutely ecstatic.
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* KarmaHoudini: Stevie manages to get away with an unfortunate amount of bullying towards Jamie, including starting rumors that he's faking his handicap and yanking Jamie out of his chair and tossing him off the pier onto the beach before running off with the chair (which only didn't result in any fall out other than a scare because Uncle Frankie happened to walk home that way, allowing Jamie to call for help).
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* SweetAndSourGrapes: Jamie's sitcom takes up so much of his time that he completely misses the filming of the piece Gilda desperately needed to qualify for a contest where the prize was a scholarship to her dream school, leaving the short film in utter shambles; however, this leaves her to help direct said sitcom after the original assistant director is booted for being a bigot, which nets her a full ride scholarship with glowing recommendations from the director.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: The car accident that made Jamie a paraplegic killed his whole family.
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: One of Jamie's bits is all about how politically correct his school is--for example, nobody's fat anymore, they're all "horizontally expanded." And nobody there farts, they merely "expel alternative fuels."
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: PoliticalOvercorrectness: One of Jamie's bits is all about how politically correct his school is--for example, nobody's fat anymore, they're all "horizontally expanded." And nobody there farts, they merely "expel alternative fuels."
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* RussianBear: Discussed when Jamie says that a Russian customer laughs "like a happy bear".
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The book received three sequels: ''I Even Funnier'', ''I Totally Funniest'', and ''I Funny TV''.
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The book received three five sequels: ''I Even Funnier'', ''I Totally Funniest'', and ''I Funny TV''.
TV'', ''I Funny: School of Laughs'', and ''The Nerdiest, Wimpiest, Dorkiest I Funny Ever''.
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* GroupieBrigade: In the beginning of the third book in the series, "I Totally Funniest", Jamie has become so famous in his school for winning multiple comedy competitions that he is now popular with girls, as he is surrounded by screaming fangirls who all want his autograph, to the dismay of his friends. One of Jamie's rivals, Ben the Italian Scallion, has hordes of screaming female groupies as well.
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* {{Squee}}: When Jamie calls Gilda and tells her he has been accepted into the Las Vegas Wildcard competition, her reaction is a Squee that's so loud that Jamie tells the reader they could hear it all the way from their house.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Even though Jamie regrets making fun of his friends and Uncle Frankie in the second round, they forgive him since his comedy aloows them to laugh at themselves. As Uncle Frankie tells him, being able to laugh at himself keeps him young.
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* WelcomeToTheBigCity: When Jamie first arrives in Manhattan, he gets mugged and a rat pees on his shoes. However, he's ecstatic because it means that here, he's treated like everyone else.
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* WelcomeToTheBigCity: When Jamie first arrives in Manhattan, he gets mugged and a rat pees on his shoes. However, he's ecstatic because it means that here, he's treated like everyone else.else.
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* SecretMessageWink: Jamie is choking with fear at the stand-up comedy tournament semifinals, but he catches Cool Girl's eye in the audience and she shoots him a secret wink to reassure him, which helps him remember his set. Later when Jamie performs to the kids in his old hospital, he riffs on a joke his foster mom told him and gives her a quick wink to thank her for the material.
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''I Funny'' is a 2012 novel by Creator/JamesPatterson and Chris Grabenstein, which stars Jamie Grimm, a young budding comedian from Long Beach, New York, confined to a wheelchair. Stuck in a humorless foster family and a school full of bullies, Jamie uses stand-up comedy to cope with his troubles and keep his enemies too doubled-over to punch. When he hears of a "Planet's Funniest Kid Comic" contest, he ditches his home and family to leave for Manhattan and face off against the funniest kids in the state.
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''I Funny'' is a 2012 novel by Creator/JamesPatterson and Chris Grabenstein, which intended as a spin-off of sorts to the ''Literature/MiddleSchool'' series. It stars Jamie Grimm, a young budding comedian from Long Beach, New York, confined to a wheelchair. Stuck in a humorless foster family and a school full of bullies, Jamie uses stand-up comedy to cope with his troubles and keep his enemies too doubled-over to punch. When he hears of a "Planet's Funniest Kid Comic" contest, he ditches his home and family to leave for Manhattan and face off against the funniest kids in the state.
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''I Funny'' is a 2012 novel by Creator/JamesPatterson and Chris Grabenstein, which stars Jamie Grimm, a young budding comedian from Long Beach, New York, confined to a wheelchair. Stuck in a humorless foster family and a school full of bullies, Jamie uses stand-up comedy to cope with his troubles and keep his enemies too doubled-over to punch. When he hears of a "Planet's Funniest Kid Comic" contest, he ditches his home and family to leave for Manhattan and face off against the funniest kids in the state.
The book received three sequels: ''I Even Funnier'', ''I Totally Funniest'', and ''I Funny TV''.
!! ''I Funny'' contains examples of:
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Even though Jamie regrets making fun of his friends and Uncle Frankie in the second round, they forgive him since his comedy aloows them to laugh at themselves. As Uncle Frankie tells him, being able to laugh at himself keeps him young.
* BarbaricBully: Stevie Kosgrov, who later becomes Jamie's stepbrother. He's never above flipping over Jamie's wheelchair.
* BrutalHonesty: Cool Girl always asks Jamie brutally honest questions about life with a wheelchair, such as how he pees. It's one of the reasons he likes her so much: she never sugarcoats for him because of the chair.
* CoolUncle: Jamie's Uncle Frankie, who runs the seaside diner where Jamie mans the cash register. He's the only family member close to Jamie, and encourages him to apply for the comedy contest.
* DontYouDarePityMe: What Jamie hates most is when people treat him nicer than others because of his wheelchair disability. At the first round, one of the judges tells Jamie he's already a winner for trying, which gives him the anger-fueled energy he needs to ace his routine.
* GangOfBullies: Stevie and his two detention friends, nicknamed Zits and Useless.
* InSeriesNickname: Jamie always calls Suzie Orolvsky "Cool Girl."
* LastNameBasis: Jamie's two best friends, Gaynor and Pierce, never go by their first names (Joey and Jimmy respectively.)
* MrImagination: Jamie likes to imagine the pedestrians on his way to school are zombies and his principal is [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Dr. Doofenshmirtz]].
* MusicalChores: Uncle Frankie always plays doo-wop on the jukebox and sings along (usually badly) while working in his restaurant.
* PerformanceAnxiety: Jamie gets this often since he's never performed before: first when giving an oral presentation in English class, and then much worse at both rounds of the contest.
* PerpetualFrowner: Jamie's foster family, who he affectionately nicknames The Smileys.
* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: One of Jamie's bits is all about how politically correct his school is--for example, nobody's fat anymore, they're all "horizontally expanded." And nobody there farts, they merely "expel alternative fuels."
* RedOniBlueOni: Impulsive goofball Gaynor, and put-together intellectual Pierce.
* ShoutOut:
** Jamie always uses Yakov Smirnoff lines on Mr. Burdzecki, a regular Russian customer. For all his other customers, he quotes many different comedians, ranging from Creator/GeorgeCarlin to Creator/RodneyDangerfield to Creator/StevenWright.
** Jamie and Gilda bond over quoting Creator/TheMarxBrothers.
** Jamie compares using his wheelchair over sand to Han Solo, Leia, and Luke stuck in the endless Tatooine desert in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
** After losing the school election, Jamie admits he voted for a write-in candidate, namely [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]]--who, according to Jamie, would be a great student council president.
* TitleDrop: The book's title comes from a compliment Mr. Burdzecki gives Jamie in very broken English. Jamie repeats the compliment to himself whenever he feels insecure.
* ToiletHumor: Part of Jamie's set; he calls it "heading to Grossville."
* ToughRoom: Shecky from Schenectady, the kid comic who goes before Jamie in the second round, could not elicit more than a few groans from his HurricaneOfPuns routine.
* VisualPun: One illustration shows Jamie leaving the house "at the crack of dawn," and sure enough there is a crack drawn in the sky.
* WelcomeToTheBigCity: When Jamie first arrives in Manhattan, he gets mugged and a rat pees on his shoes. However, he's ecstatic because it means that here, he's treated like everyone else.
The book received three sequels: ''I Even Funnier'', ''I Totally Funniest'', and ''I Funny TV''.
!! ''I Funny'' contains examples of:
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Even though Jamie regrets making fun of his friends and Uncle Frankie in the second round, they forgive him since his comedy aloows them to laugh at themselves. As Uncle Frankie tells him, being able to laugh at himself keeps him young.
* BarbaricBully: Stevie Kosgrov, who later becomes Jamie's stepbrother. He's never above flipping over Jamie's wheelchair.
* BrutalHonesty: Cool Girl always asks Jamie brutally honest questions about life with a wheelchair, such as how he pees. It's one of the reasons he likes her so much: she never sugarcoats for him because of the chair.
* CoolUncle: Jamie's Uncle Frankie, who runs the seaside diner where Jamie mans the cash register. He's the only family member close to Jamie, and encourages him to apply for the comedy contest.
* DontYouDarePityMe: What Jamie hates most is when people treat him nicer than others because of his wheelchair disability. At the first round, one of the judges tells Jamie he's already a winner for trying, which gives him the anger-fueled energy he needs to ace his routine.
* GangOfBullies: Stevie and his two detention friends, nicknamed Zits and Useless.
* InSeriesNickname: Jamie always calls Suzie Orolvsky "Cool Girl."
* LastNameBasis: Jamie's two best friends, Gaynor and Pierce, never go by their first names (Joey and Jimmy respectively.)
* MrImagination: Jamie likes to imagine the pedestrians on his way to school are zombies and his principal is [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Dr. Doofenshmirtz]].
* MusicalChores: Uncle Frankie always plays doo-wop on the jukebox and sings along (usually badly) while working in his restaurant.
* PerformanceAnxiety: Jamie gets this often since he's never performed before: first when giving an oral presentation in English class, and then much worse at both rounds of the contest.
* PerpetualFrowner: Jamie's foster family, who he affectionately nicknames The Smileys.
* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: One of Jamie's bits is all about how politically correct his school is--for example, nobody's fat anymore, they're all "horizontally expanded." And nobody there farts, they merely "expel alternative fuels."
* RedOniBlueOni: Impulsive goofball Gaynor, and put-together intellectual Pierce.
* ShoutOut:
** Jamie always uses Yakov Smirnoff lines on Mr. Burdzecki, a regular Russian customer. For all his other customers, he quotes many different comedians, ranging from Creator/GeorgeCarlin to Creator/RodneyDangerfield to Creator/StevenWright.
** Jamie and Gilda bond over quoting Creator/TheMarxBrothers.
** Jamie compares using his wheelchair over sand to Han Solo, Leia, and Luke stuck in the endless Tatooine desert in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
** After losing the school election, Jamie admits he voted for a write-in candidate, namely [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]]--who, according to Jamie, would be a great student council president.
* TitleDrop: The book's title comes from a compliment Mr. Burdzecki gives Jamie in very broken English. Jamie repeats the compliment to himself whenever he feels insecure.
* ToiletHumor: Part of Jamie's set; he calls it "heading to Grossville."
* ToughRoom: Shecky from Schenectady, the kid comic who goes before Jamie in the second round, could not elicit more than a few groans from his HurricaneOfPuns routine.
* VisualPun: One illustration shows Jamie leaving the house "at the crack of dawn," and sure enough there is a crack drawn in the sky.
* WelcomeToTheBigCity: When Jamie first arrives in Manhattan, he gets mugged and a rat pees on his shoes. However, he's ecstatic because it means that here, he's treated like everyone else.
