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• n  light teasing repartee

• It celebrates the chicanery of the human spirit, the love of raillery and rodomontade.
• But much of the raillery in Step Brothers seems lazy or desperate.
• In the 19th century, a rogue's gallery of MPs was better known for drunken raillery and fist-fighting than for any legislative achievements.

• banter
• give-and-take
• backchat

News & Articles

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• Scotland the Brave No More
  In Duck Soup, one of the stuffy characters responds to Groucho's raillery with the protest: "I didn't come here to be insulted!" to which Groucho quips "Oh really? Where do you usually go?"
  Aug. 20, 2013 - Mona Charen via Yahoo! News
• The Left lives freely in Scotland -
  In Duck Soup, one of the stuffy characters responds to Groucho’s raillery with the protest: “I didn’t come here to be insulted!” to which Groucho quips “Oh really? Where do you usually go?”
  Aug. 20, 2013 - The Robesonian
• Unchecked leftism gets ugly - Tue, 20 Aug 2013 PST
  In the Marx Brothers’ “Duck Soup,” one of the stuffy characters responds to Groucho’s raillery with the protest: “I didn’t come here to be insulted!” to which Groucho quips “Oh really? Where do you usually go?” I went to Scotland. Don’t misunderstand, the Scots were delightful hosts – friendly, accommodating and, of course, a delight to the ears. The country is as beautiful as advertised, and ...
  Aug. 20, 2013 - The Spokesman-Review

Quotes

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• Aristotle in ChronicleHerald.ca
  Perhaps Aristotle explains it most eloquently: "Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."