funnies vs interlude

funnies

noun
  • The section of a newspaper containing comic strips. 

interlude

noun
  • An entertainment between the acts of a play. 

  • An intervening episode, etc. 

  • A short piece put between the parts of a longer composition. 

verb
  • To provide with an interlude. 

How often have the words funnies and interlude occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )