Possible Clues:

• Bookstore section with joke books
• Temperament
• "___ me" ("Play along")
• Trump laughs at this vibrating noise on Gold
• Funny business?
• '___ can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process': E. B. White
• Comic's specialty
• Hear out, say
• Mark Twain Prize focus
• Michael Arceneaux genre