The above statement was stated by a nameless character called "The servant" in Medea and Other Plays written by Euripides. See lines 118 to 120.
<h3>What is a character?</h3>
A character is a fictional person who is crated by the author to help drive the plot forward.
In this case, the character made the above statement after other characters has left the scene.
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He was used to being made fun of.
We know this by him taking this reply in ‘with a sort of humble patience’. This means that he has experienced this kind of teasing - or even bullying before and he is used to it.
Really it depends upon what the author makes it. If it's a published book, it's a for entertaining purposes. If it was informal, it's be a biography.