funnies vs slapstick

funnies

noun
  • The section of a newspaper containing comic strips. 

slapstick

noun
  • A style of humor focusing on physical comedy, such as slipping on a banana peel, and with foolish characters who get into humiliating situations. 

  • A pair of sticks attached at one end and used to create a slapping sound effect, used especially in slapstick comedy; a type of clapper. 

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