He recalled laughing as he left, laughing at the cheap absurdity of it all.
Then they left, laughing hysterically at Anne who had behaved like a schoolgirl.
Everything was working perfectly in this show, and you left laughing, sure, but also shaking your head in confusion.
Most people came to her with pain in their faces and tears in their eyes, but left laughing and trading stories about a man everyone called Howie.
The story, with its "Aw, geez!" ending, may leave the 4-year-old fan of "Boy and Bot" scratching his head, but his 7-year-old brother will be left laughing.
"They have been promising us the earth since 1994 and now it's just the rest of the world that is left laughing – at us," said Salvatore Crucitti, 23, a conservatoire-trained musician who, like Barrese, wants to emigrate.
Perhaps that is the answer - force every urbanite 4x4 user to joust to the death until only Jeremy Clarkson is left laughing like a git and driving off into the sunset, or better still, the actual sun.
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall were left laughing uncontrollably by a musical performance during a visit to an eco-festival in London.
