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Noun: drollness  drówl-nus
  1. A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
    "Her quick drollness lightened the tense atmosphere";
    - wit, humor [US], humour [Brit, Cdn], witticism, wittiness
     
  2. The quality of being clever, amusingly ingenious
    "And the result would be that he would kill the drollness of the lines by burlesque.";
    - wittiness

Type of: content, humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity, merriness, message, subject matter, substance