(Mr. Lane wasn't the only one who brought chuckles.
The news brought chuckles from some amused by Grand Canyon's name, bemusement from others unsure of its pedigree and a seeming nod of approval from the stock market.
Dennis Kucinich's Keebler-elf visage brought chuckles at first, but as Howard Dean and Dick Gephardt traded accusations the students mostly kept their thoughts to themselves.
Saying that the news media wereralways "obsessively" seeking differences between Mr. Gore and Mr. Clinton, Mr. Clinton added: "I liked 'Howard the Duck,' " bringing chuckles from the audience.
Long accustomed to being absorbed in any text I'm composing, all of these snags and distractions at first brought chuckles, but soon all that changed into vehement disgust.
Lithe as a lawn mower, subtle as a subpoena, Alpha Al clomped right up beside Mr. Bush, who rewarded him with a disdainful double take that brought chuckles from the crowd.
Other period television quirks bring chuckles, as when, in the middle of Leonid Kogan's performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, the camera pans across a copy of the score, tracing the piece's progress measure by measure.
This brings long chuckles from Patrick: "Consider the source," he laughs.
If you're not in your early teens, those names may mean little to you, so all you need to know is that Sam and Mark bring the chuckles in a style reminiscent of Ant and Dec's SM TV.
The bassoons at the end of the "Chinese March" made a very characterful sound, like water circling and gurgling down a plug hole, and the solo bassoon interjections in "Petrushka" brought appreciative chuckles from the audience, as they deserved to.
