The English word "funny" means "something that makes one laugh". What is/are
the closest Japanese word/words that match the meaning and the nuance of the
word "funny"?

Two possible matches are 楽しい【たのしい】 and 面白い【おもしろい】. However, 楽しい is more like
"fun" and 面白い is more like "interesting". There is also 可笑しい【おかしい】, which in
my experience is often used with negative connotations. The word "funny" can
also have negative connotations, but is usually positive. Another possible
match is 滑稽 but this seems to have the sense of "extremely funny".
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How do you say "funny"?
You've basically answered your question - the words you've listed are your
options. There's pretty much nothing closer to the English word 'funny' than
those words; and if there was a more direct translation, it would be unusual
enough of a word that it would sound too strange to use in everyday
conversation. I'd say to default to 面白い - it would mean something like
'something that I enjoy(ed) experiencing', in this case, because it was
humorous.
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I think that 面白い is actually much closer to "funny" than most learners
realise, because they think of 面白い as "interesting". It often means "funny",
e.g.

> アキちゃんはちょうおもしろいよね  
>  Aki is really funny.

Another way of saying "that's really funny", which hasn't been mentioned, is

> (ちょう)うける
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