funnies vs jesting

funnies

noun

  • The section of a newspaper containing comic strips. 

jesting

noun

  • mocking 

  • bantering; ridicule 

  • joking 

adj

  • humorous 

  • playful; mocking 

  • facetious 

  • jeering 

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