The chair had to gavel it, which is so telling to me. The chairman couldn't even convincingly pull off the normal go-to theatrical move of "how dare you shameful people laugh" because everyone who laughed couldn't help laughing and they immediately stopped on their own accord, so the chairman was left standing there looking like a power hungry chairman who just wanted to take an opportunity to scold the room.
The chair had to gavel it, which is so telling to me. The chairman couldn't even convincingly pull off the normal go-to theatrical move of "how dare you shameful people laugh" because everyone who laughed couldn't help laughing and they immediately stopped on their own accord, so the chairman was left standing there looking like a power hungry chairman who just wanted to take an opportunity to scold the room.