slapstick, zany, clownish, absurdist, mirthful, vaudevillian, uproarious, comical, prankish, droll, daffy, pantomimic, insouciant, histrionic, manic, clownlike, impish, playful, grand guignol, comedic, zestily, goofy, exuberant, opera buffa, falstaffian, parodic, deadpan, unamusing, melodramatic, puckish, ribald, picaresque, whimsical, hilarious, jocular, endearing, unmannered, campy, doltish, lumpish, high jinks, witty, sardonic, wackily, overacting, comic, riotous, larky, frolicsome, overfamiliar, bumptious, irreverent, rabelaisian, mischievous, shavian, buffoonish, artful, eccentric, jocose, humorous, quippy, teacherly, sly, onanistic, theatric, blowzy, artless, smirky, rambunctious, puppyish, hackneyed, dadaist, declamatory, bathetic, tragicomic, sidesplitting, brattish, foppish, stagey, virtuosic, overdetermined, dandified, oafish, gleeful, brusk, wry, unaffecting, florid, neurotic, shakespearean, rascally, flamboyant, irrepressible, amusing, jaunty, banal, pointillistic, goony, unhinged, pythonesque, roguish, amiable, grotesque, stylized, carnivalesque, coquettish, fantastical, macabre, uncouth, effeminate, elephantine, humanlike, ingratiating, stylised, unheroic, vivacious

practical joke

diversion, jest, joke, recreation

caper, clown, clown around, fantastic, prank, strange, trick, unusual