Noun
a comic incident or series of incidents
Source: WordNetYou can tease out this basic funniness or make it funnier than it was to start with but inserting an actual joke or a gag is in my opinion, icky. Source: Internet
No one since the height of the blues is funnier, or, crucially, more aware of how her funniness distorts the world around her and the history that created her. Source: Internet