joke vs one-liner

joke

noun
  • An amusing story. 

  • The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one 

  • A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham. 

  • Something that is far easier or far less challenging than expected. 

  • Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness. 

verb
  • To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously. 

  • To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with. 

one-liner

noun
  • A short joke, especially one of a single sentence. 

  • A short remark intended as a sound bite. 

  • A command or small program consisting of a single line of input. 

How often have the words joke and one-liner occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )