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• s  arousing or provoking laughter
  risible courtroom antics

• You can also argue, less cosmically, that his works are no more than extensions of a very long line in epic, unconsciously risible filmmaking that imparts earnest metaphorical .
• The film comes uncomfortably close to risible.
• The Daily Show and Saturday Night Live were at the top of their satirical game, Katie Couric came into her own as an anchor, and for all their risible gimmicks (like Anderson Cooper .

• amusing
• comic
• comical
• funny
• laughable
• mirthful

Quotes

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• David Miliband in The Australian
  The idea of him lecturing the Labour Party about joined-up government, when the Defence Secretary and Prime Minister can't go more than two days without disagreeing about our most important foreign policy objective, is risible,Mr Miliband said.
• John Laws in NEWS.com.au
  The three real offenders in this category of jerk or weasel . . . is the strangely screwed-up Bob Rogers; the holier-than-thou failed alcoholic, the fungus-faced Derryn Hinch; the other is (2UE's) own risible dwarf, Steve Price,Laws told his...
• Sir Michael Peat in Sydney Morning Herald
  Anyone who knows the Prince of Wales at all would appreciate that the allegation is totally ludicrous and, indeed, risible,his secretary Sir Michael Peat said in an unprecedented statement on the matter.