…then the crowd erupted with laughter…
I was at a circus with my family watching all the performers doing their silly acts, but not everyone was laughing like me. There were people that just sat there with straight faces, bored and wanting to go home. Unlike me, I was giggling my head off.
The performers did not like that the audience wasn’t laughing so they said to the ringmaster, “We need to be as funny as we can so people will tell their friends to come and watch us.” The ringmaster agreed. They went out and performed their new acts and then the crowd erupted with laughter.