A riddle

[2vast2curious.livejournal.com]

I think you'll find this simple. The event took place in the English class so I'll tell the joke in reverse to give it (hopefully) some educational value.

One of the students has just finished telling us about the ice-cream they had made during their labo. She concludes:
"The ice-cream was fine except that it tasted of monkey."
It took me a while to realize what did monkeys have to do with ice-cream...

What do they, actually?

Смешно - adjective or adverb?

[maceochi.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone,

When a noun in the nom. pl. is funny, and you use the word «смешно», is it more correct to say:
«Мне смешно русские переводы технической лексики»  or
«Мне смешны русские переводы технической лексики»?

My main problem here is that i don't know whether «смешно» is a short-form adj. or an adverb.

Of course, there is always the option of saying «мне смешно, как на русский переводили», but without rephrasing the sentence, which is correct - «смешно» or «смешны»?

The register is conversational.

Thanks to everyone in advance!