nonjoke
nounEtymology From non- + joke.
1
A story, utterance, etc. that is not a joke.
- And if the computer did produce a joke, it could not separate it from the nonjokes.1982, Wallace I. Matson, Sentience:
- Whether either the dumb joke or the nonjoke is funny is hardly a question that arouses the passions or that we much care about […]2008, Kendall L. Walton, Marvelous images: on values and the arts: