droll

Other influences, like the tastemaking Bay Area band Whirr, drew from similar wells a generation ago — Lu’s droll Instagram handle is still “whirrwhoreforlyfe.”

The droll side of his personality came out again shortly after he had finished speaking to the media.

He also had a droll side, as revealed in this song reconstituted from demos he recorded in 1993; a latter-day band, including Marty Stuart on guitar, now fills out the original tracks.

But as she’s stymied in her quest for romance and stardom, our heroine morphs into a droll, nasty-minded comedian named Joker the Harlequin.

The humor these authors embrace traverses the gamut, from sardonic to screwball, mordant to madcap, droll to deranged.