Ifunny Main Character of I Funny

I Funny is a 2012 novel past James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein, intended as a spin-off of sorts to the Middle School 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 schoolhouse total of bullies, Jamie uses stand up-up comedy to cope with his troubles and go along his enemies too doubled-over to punch. When he hears of a "Planet'southward Funniest Child Comic" competition, he ditches his home and family unit to leave for Manhattan and face off confronting the funniest kids in the state.

The book received v sequels: I Even Funnier, I Totally Funniest, I Funny TV, I Funny: Schoolhouse of Laughs, and The Nerdiest, Wimpiest, Dorkiest I Funny Ever.

I Funny contains examples of:

• Actually Pretty Funny: Even though Jamie regrets making fun of his friends and Uncle Frankie in the second circular, they forgive him since his comedy allows them to laugh at themselves. Every bit Uncle Frankie tells him, being able to laugh at himself keeps him young.
• Barbarian Swell: Stevie Kosgrov, who afterward becomes Jamie's stepbrother. He's never above flipping over Jamie's wheelchair.
• Barbarous Honesty: Cool Girl always asks Jamie brutally honest questions most life with a wheelchair, such every bit how he pees. It's ane of the reasons he likes her so much: she never sugarcoats for him because of the chair.
• Cool Uncle: Jamie's Uncle Frankie, who runs the seaside diner where Jamie mans the greenbacks annals. He'due south the only family unit member close to Jamie, and encourages him to apply for the comedy contest.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: 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 acrimony-fueled energy he needs to ace his routine.
• Gang of Bullies: Stevie and his two detention friends, nicknamed Zits and Useless.
• Groupie Brigade: In the commencement of the 3rd book in the series, "I Totally Funniest", Jamie has become and then 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. 1 of Jamie'due south rivals, Ben the Italian Scallion, has hordes of screaming female groupies as well.
• In-Series Nickname: Jamie always calls Suzie Orolvsky "Absurd Daughter."
• Last-Proper noun Basis: Jamie's two best friends, Gaynor and Pierce, never go by their start names (Joey and Jimmy respectively.)
• Mr. Imagination: Jamie likes to imagine the pedestrians on his manner to school are zombies and his chief is Dr. Doofenshmirtz.
• Musical Chores: Uncle Frankie ever plays doo-wop on the jukebox and sings forth (ordinarily badly) while working in his eating house.
• Performance Anxiety: Jamie gets this often since he'southward never performed earlier: first when giving an oral presentation in English class, then much worse at both rounds of the competition.
• Perpetual Frowner: Jamie'south foster family unit, who he affectionately nicknames The Smileys.
• Political Overcorrectness: One of Jamie's bits is all almost how politically correct his schoolhouse is—for instance, nobody's fat anymore, they're all "horizontally expanded." And nobody there farts, they merely "expel culling fuels."
• Cerise Oni, Blue Oni: Impulsive goofball Gaynor, and put-together intellectual Pierce.
• Russian Comport: Discussed when Jamie says that a Russian client laughs "like a happy bear".
• Secret Message Flash: Jamie is choking with fear at the stand-up comedy tournament semifinals, merely he catches Cool Girl'due south eye in the audience and she shoots him a secret wink to reassure him, which helps him remember his fix. Afterwards 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 flash to thank her for the material.
• Shout-Out:
  • Jamie always uses Yakov Smirnoff lines on Mr. Burdzecki, a regular Russian client. For all his other customers, he quotes many different comedians, ranging from George Carlin to Rodney Dangerfield to Steven Wright.
  • Jamie and Gilda bail over quoting The Marx Brothers.
  • Jamie compares using his wheelchair over sand to Han Solo, Leia, and Luke stuck in the endless Tatooine desert in Return of the Jedi.
  • After losing the school election, Jamie admits he voted for a write-in candidate, namely Bart Simpson—who, according to Jamie, would be a groovy student council president.
• Squee: When Jamie calls Gilda and tells her he has been accustomed into the Las Vegas Wildcard competition, her reaction is a Squee that'southward so loud that Jamie tells the reader they could hear it all the style from their house.
• Title Drop: The book'due south title comes from a compliment Mr. Burdzecki gives Jamie in very cleaved English. Jamie repeats the compliment to himself whenever he feels insecure.
• Toilet Humor: Part of Jamie'south gear up; he calls information technology "heading to Grossville."
• Tough Room: Shecky from Schenectady, the kid comic who goes earlier Jamie in the 2nd round, could not arm-twist more than a few groans from his Hurricane of Puns routine.
• Visual Pun: One analogy shows Jamie leaving the house "at the crack of dawn," and sure enough there is a scissure fatigued in the sky.
• Welcome to the Big City: When Jamie outset arrives in Manhattan, he gets mugged and a rat pees on his shoes. However, he'southward ecstatic because it means that here, he'south treated like everyone else.

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