drollery

noun6

1. •
   Comical quality.

   • He found that Sally had a restrained, but keen, sense of the ridiculous, and she made remarks about the girls or the men who were set over them which amused him by their unexpected drollery. — 1915
2. •
   Amusing behavior.
3. •
   Something humorous, funny or comical.

   • "I'm pregnant." "No drolleries this morning please." "Three months." — 1963
4. •
   A joke; a funny story.
5. •
   A small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript.
6. •
   (no longer used) A puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.

   • Sebastian: A liuing Drolerie : now I will beleeue That there are Vnicornes : that in Arabia There is one Tree, the Phoenix throne, one Phoenix At this houre reigning there. — 1610