n. a magazine devoted to comic strips

n. a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of comedy; "comic hero"

adj. arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics"

n. a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages

n. a buffoon in one of the old comedies; imitates others for ludicrous effect

n. someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way

n. mimics literary or musical style for comic effect

n. a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm

n. a witty amusing person who makes jokes

n. someone who plays practical jokes on others

n. an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments

n. an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression

adj. providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining; "an amusing speaker"; "a diverting story"; "a fun thing to do"

adj. incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"

adj. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

adj. cleverly amusing in tone; "a bantering tone"; "facetious remarks"; "tongue-in-cheek advice"

adj. characterized by horseplay and physical action; "slapstick style of humor"

adj. like a clown; "a buffoonish walk"; "a clownish face"; "a zany sense of humor"

adj. amusing in an odd or whimsical manner; deliberately waggish

adj. humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit"

adj. broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair"

adj. wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas; "a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings"- T.C.Worsley

adj. marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter; "hilarious broad comedy"; "a screaming farce"; "uproarious stories"

adj. very funny; "a killing joke"; "sidesplitting antics"

adj. characterized by jokes and good humor

adj. arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics"

adj. having a mixture of serious with the comic with comic predominating; "a seriocomic novel"

adj. having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics; "her life...presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure"--Joseph Conrad

n. an actor who specializes in tragic roles

n. a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian