These are jokes that desperately wish to be funny but the book produces only one that would be considered genuinely amusing to its demographic.

Only some of it is genuinely amusing.

Asked if sheep seemed a little odd as a symbol for an island associated with fishing, boating and weekend homes, she replied diplomatically, "I thought it was genuinely amusing."

She could laugh and joke with her colleagues but Dexter often wondered how much of the crude banter she found genuinely amusing.

His performers radiate obvious gratitude while madly indulging themselves, sometimes even in genuinely amusing ways.

A day of traipsing about from session to session turned up a few good jokes (mostly dirty) and a few genuinely amusing if extraordinarily narrow fields of interest.

Half-laughing, too, for Maurice's witticisms had been genuinely amusing.

If A Hard Heart is unintentionally comic, though, it did remind me of other people's genuinely amusing lines.

Stephen Armstrong of The Times thinks that No Heroics is "possibly the first genuinely amusing sitcom on any ITV outlet since, well - any suggestions?"

These should be cut unless truly insightful or genuinely amusing.