In a last ditch attempt to save his doomed candidacy a jolly jocund Jeremy put on his best Cheshire cat grin to fire the torpedo he hopes will hole Boris below the water line. "Johnson has no sense of humour," is the claim he has been advised to make by his backroom staff, wittily changing their name from think-tank to wank-tank. Snickering and sniggering and smirking up their sleeves, these advisors assert that the one thing the British public cannot tolerate is a lack of a sense of humour.
But what about May say objectors - not famous for her jests and japes.
Did you see her dancing, comes the reply, and then using Dancing Queen as her theme tune! And everyone knows chuckles and chortles can but converted to 'coughs'. And that curtsy she gave the Queen was more obviously taking the piss than Cherie Blair's. Her whole Premiership has been totally ironic, including the comic fake pictures of instant ageing, then bursting into tears of laughter when resigning.
A crescendo of cackling cachinnation and guffaws of glee irrupted from Hunt's supporters as they came roaring and rollicking with risibility from his latest press conference.
"All very well, IF you like laughing," was the only comment from calculating 'clown' Bojo.
"Pull the other one," was Corbyn's deadpan rejoinder.
(Hat-tip to Rodger's Brontosaurus for words connected with laughter.)