banter

"I'm still crying," she quipped in the "off-the-cuff" (totally scripted) banter in the segment that followed.

Laughter and banter and song came from the cabins that lined the big ravine and the little ravines opening into it.

In the midst of the running tide of joke and banter Violet sat as one apart.

But answering her banter he once caught an expression behind her airiness.

But her companion was less facile in his mental changes, and did not respond to this quick transition from banter to sentiment.

It can easily be imagined what description of banter he had to meet and foil.