The phrase "a jest of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that is meant as a joke or playful remark, often in a context where the humor may not be immediately apparent.
Example: "What he said was merely a jest of his imagination, not to be taken seriously."
Alternatives: "a joke of" or "a playful remark of".
If he were the guest editor for Charlie Hebdo, as fictitiously suggested, the Prophet would have unequivocally decried the bombing but also would have called on citizens of all faiths to make merry by working together, not by making a jest of one another's saints.
Alongside the other novels in her "Manawaka series"—A Jest of God, The Fire-Dwellers, A Bird in the House: Stories, and The Diviners Laurence's The Stone Angel has been lauded as one of her most poignant narratives and the most famous work by one of Canada's most prominent feminist writers.
A Jest of God (1966; made into the motion picture Rachel, Rachel in 1968) and The Fire Dwellers (1969) are about two sisters, a Manitoba schoolteacher and a Vancouver housewife, each trying to achieve personal fulfillment.
Alice Munro in Lives of Girls and Women (1971), set in southwestern Ontario, and Margaret Laurence in her Manawaka novels (The Stone Angel, 1964; A Jest of God, 1966; The Diviners, 1974) explored their heroines' rebellion against a constricting small-town heritage.
Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel and A Jest of God were set in Manawaka, a fictional town representing Neepawa; the latter title won the Governor General's Award in 1966.
He is like the walking punchline to a cosmic jest of unfathomable cruelty.
But a central jest of the campaign is that the book does not exist, nor does its putative author, Eric Jonrosh; savvy viewers will probably figure that out when they see the comedian Will Ferrell — a partner in Funny or Die — as Mr. Jonrosh.
Thereafter, navigation became, in Worsley's words, "a merry jest of guesswork", as they encountered the worst of the weather.
You shall not hear their mirth: You shall not come to think them well content By any jest of mind.
40 Sometimes, in order to dispel the unpopularity excited by a bitter criticism, the latter may be disposed of by a jest, as for example Cicero disposes of Triarius.
Lucidity and opacity, ordinary delights and exotic peculiarities blend breezily in an intimate jest of vast wonder.
