facetious vs humorous

facetious

adj
  • Pleasantly humorous; jocular. 

  • Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant. 

  • Of an idea or statement, humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite. 

humorous

adj
  • Showing humor; witty, jocular. 

  • Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny. 

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