jape
- n a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point
- Paul Giamatti as Santa Claus and Vince Vaughn as his loser brother Fred, in a holiday jape from the director of Wedding Crashers and one of the writers of Cars: that should be funny.
- It's the brothers' brightest, most accessible jape.
- Some of Matheson's TV fables the Twilight Zone story about the gremlin on the airplane wing, the Trilogy of Terror jape about a Zuni fetish doll chasing Karen Black around her .