The funnies are the cartoon pages in a newspaper or magazine — a set of little picture stories, usually meant to make you smile. This is mainly American, and a little old-fashioned in a warm way. People say 'the Sunday funnies' for the colour comics that used to come with the weekend paper. It is not a word for 'funny things' in general. You would not hold up a joke book and say 'here are the funnies' unless you were copying that newspaper habit. You almost always say the funnies, with the.