comical

Comical, a.

1. Relating to comedy. They deny it to be tragical because its catastrphe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted comical. Gay.

2. Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story. "Comical adventures." Dryden.

Syn. -- Humorous; laughable; funny. See Droll. -- Com"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Com"ic*al"ness, n.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for comical; he lists it under queer.

Where he writes about it:

Queer is transverse or oblique, aside from the common in a way that is comical or perhaps slightly ridiculous. — from queer