joke, gag, laugh, jest, jape, yak, wheeze

a humorous anecdote or remark

• belly laugh, sidesplitter, howler, thigh-slapper, scream, wow, riot — a joke that seems extremely funny
• dirty joke, dirty story, blue joke, blue story — an indelicate joke
• ethnic joke — a joke at the expense of some ethnic group
• funny story, good story — an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line)
• in-joke — a joke that is appreciated only by members of some particular group of people
• one-liner — a one-line joke
• shaggy dog story — a long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessness
• sick joke — a joke in bad taste
• sight gag, visual joke — a joke whose effect is achieved by visual means rather than by speech (as in a movie)

• wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness — a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

• punch line, laugh line, gag line, tag line — the point of a joke or humorous story