funnification

Noun

1. The process of making (something) fun.
   • Functional and economical thinking is too limited and the shallow 'funnification' of our culture that compensates for this even more so. - 2002, Renny Ramakers, Less + More: Droog Design in Context, page 219:
   • (see title) - 2005 March 14, Jeremiah Scott, “1964 Ford Fairlane 500 - Fairlane Funnification”, in Motor Trend:
   • The process of funnification taking place at the level of the self can be seen as analogous to the concept of "McDonalization" ^([sic]) (Ritzer, 2000) on the societal level. - 2010, Hubert Hermans, Agnieszka...
2. The process of making (something) funny.
   • Situating vagrants in comic genres, in line with long-standing literary conventions involving the social hierarchy, promoted what I will call the " funnification" of poverty. - 2001, Linda Woodbridge, Vagrancy,...
   • The exciting thing is that this mental process of 'funnification' applies to stuff in familiar comic forms (a clever satirical takedown of a politician we dislike, a succinct and recognisable nailing of an everyday...