All wisecracker synonyms

noun wisecracker

• buffoon — If you call someone a buffoon, you mean that they often do foolish things.
• comedian — A comedian is an entertainer whose job is to make people laugh, by telling jokes or funny stories.
• comic — If you describe something as comic, you mean that it makes you laugh, and is often intended to make you laugh.
• fool — to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.
• jester — a person who is given to witticisms, jokes, and pranks.
• mime — the art or technique of portraying a character, mood, idea, or narration by gestures and bodily movements; pantomime.
• prankster — a mischievous or malicious person who plays tricks, practical jokes, etc., at the expense of another.
• antic — an actor in a ludicrous or grotesque part; clown; buffoon
• cut-up — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
• dolt — a dull, stupid person; blockhead.
• gagman — a person who writes comic material for public performers.
• gagster — Joker; comedian.
• harlequin — (often initial capital letter) a comic character in commedia dell'arte and the harlequinade, usually masked, dressed in multicolored, diamond-patterned tights, and carrying a wooden sword or magic wand.
• humorist — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
• joker — a person who jokes.
• jokester — a joker, especially a practical joker.
• madcap — wildly or heedlessly impulsive; reckless; rash: a madcap scheme.
• merrymaker — a person who gaily or enthusiastically takes part in some festive or merry celebration; reveler.
• mountebank — A person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
• mummer — a person who wears a mask or fantastic costume while merrymaking or taking part in a pantomime, especially at Christmas and other festive seasons.
• picador — one of the mounted assistants to a matador, who opens the bullfight by enraging the bull and weakening its shoulder muscles with a lance.
• pierrot — a male character in certain French pantomime, having a whitened face and wearing a loose, white, fancy costume.
• punch — the chief male character in a Punch-and-Judy show.
• ribald — vulgar or indecent in speech, language, etc.; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous.
• wag — to move from side to side, forward and backward, or up and down, especially rapidly and repeatedly: a dog wagging its tail.
• wit — the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
• zany — ludicrously or whimsically comical; clownish.
• droll — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
• farceur — a writer or director of or actor in farce.
• funster — a person who creates or seeks fun, as a comedian or reveler.
• jokesmith — (jocular) A person who devises jokes.
• life of the party — most lively, outgoing person
• merry-andrew — a clown; buffoon.
• punchinello — a grotesque or absurd chief character in a puppet show of Italian origin: the prototype of Punch.
• quipster — a person who frequently makes quips.
• actor — An actor is someone whose job is acting in plays or films. 'Actor' in the singular usually refers to a man, but some women who act prefer to be called 'actors' rather than 'actresses'.
• clown — A clown is a performer in a circus who wears funny clothes and bright make-up, and does silly things in order to make people laugh.
• entertainer — A person, such as a singer, dancer, or comedian, whose job is to entertain others.
• banana — Bananas are long curved fruit with yellow skins.
• card — A card is a piece of stiff paper or thin cardboard on which something is written or printed.
• laugh — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
• stooge — an entertainer who feeds lines to the main comedian and usually serves as the butt of his or her jokes.
• cutup — a person who clowns, plays practical jokes, etc. to attract attention
• top banana — a leading comedian in musical comedy, burlesque, vaudeville, etc.: For many years he was top banana on the circuit.
• satirist — a writer of satires.
• comedienne — A comedienne is a female entertainer whose job is to make people laugh, by telling jokes or funny stories.
• pantaloon — pantaloons, a man's close-fitting garment for the hips and legs, worn especially in the 19th century, but varying in form from period to period; trousers.
• trickster — a deceiver; cheat; fraud.
• banterer — One who banters.