| Complicit |
| Part of a plot? |
| Privy to the gag |
| Part of a scheme |
| Privy to the plot |
| Aware of the joke |
| Part of the plot? |
| Part of the scheme |
| A party to the plot |
| Privy to the scheme |
| Part of a conspiracy |
| Part of a prank, say |
| Being part of a secret |
| Part of the conspiracy |
| Not unaware of the joke |
| Like con artists' shills, e.g. |
| Privy to a practical joke, say |