Drollery

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer." Macaulay.

2. Something which serves to raise mirth; as:

3. A puppet show; also, a puppet. [Obs.] Shak.

4. A lively or comic picture. [Obs.] I bought an excellent drollery, which I afterward parted with to my brother George of Wotton. Evelyn.