No, Nicholson's Joker was not "totally" camp. Doing pranks and jokes is silly, but he was very much crazy and menacing.He was totally camp and silly. Poisoning beauty supplies and deadly gas parades aren’t anything you wouldn’t have seen in the campy silver age or Adam West version.
The threat was how the movie executed it.
Joker’s goons in Keaton’s version doing backflips and karate is more in line with Power Rangers goons than Ledger’s hostage shooters.
He could be doing some goofy sh!t one second, and then the next second, he'll kill someone in cold blood. That's Joker at his absolute best. Unpredictable.


