Posts Tagged ‘laughometer’

Manchester Labour leadership hustings: Laughometer

31/07/2010, 04:13:53 PM

This is the laughometer from today’s Labour Party hustings in Manchester.

As usual, tiny chuckles weren’t recorded. 

We maintained our rule that to score, you had to get a proper laugh from a significant portion of the room. 

The laughometer was close to breaking point under the strain of the hilarity today. On todays appearance Diane may be making her way to Edinburgh next week.

Diane Abbott – 6

David Miliband – 2

Ed Miliband – 4

Ed Balls – 3

Andy Burnham – 2

The results were taken by an experienced laughometer operator, who knows the difference between a titter and a roar.

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London Young Labour Mayoral #hustings: laughometer

21/07/2010, 04:07:30 PM

This is the laughometer from the London Young Labour hustings held at Unison HQ on the Euston Rd on the evening of Tuesday 20 July.

As usual, tiny chuckles weren’t recorded.

We maintained our rule that to score you had to get a proper laugh from a significant portion of the room.

It was a particularly dry night as far as laughs were concerned, with only five in total during the one hour plus event:

Ken Livingstone – 3

Oona King – 2

The results were taken by an experienced laughometer operator, who knows the difference between a titter and a roar.

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Coop leadership hustings in Lambeth: laughometer

02/07/2010, 12:02:53 PM

This is the laughometer from the Coop leadership hustings in Brixton on the evening of Wednesday 30 June.

As usual, tiny chuckles weren’t recorded.

We maintained our rule that to score you had to get a proper laugh from a significant portion of the room.

Diane Abbott – 2

David Miliband – 1

Ed Balls – 1

Ed Miliband – 1

Andy Burnham – 0

Taken by an experienced laughometer operator, these are by far the lowest scores so far. Lambeth is clearly not for laughing.

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Fabian Hustings: laughometer

15/06/2010, 08:23:14 AM

This is the laughometer from last night’s Fabian society leadership hustings.

Tiny chuckles weren’t recorded.

We maintained our rule that to score you had to get a proper laugh from a significant portion of the room.

David Miliband 5
Ed Miliband 7
Ed Balls 9
Diane Abbott 7
Andy Burnham 6

These numbers are significantly higher across the board than for previous hustings. Last night was a first outing for the Uncut reporter operating the laughometer on this occasion.  We have not yet been able to establish whether the leap in laughs was due to operator error, or to the candidates loosening up and getting funny.

Views from those present at last night’s Fabian as well as more than one other hustings would be welcome.

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New Statesman hustings: laughometer

09/06/2010, 10:12:20 PM

We did a laugh count at tonight’s New Statesman leadership hustings.

Tiny chuckles weren’t recorded.

We maintained our rule that to score you had to get a proper laugh from a significant portion of the room.

David Miliband  1

Ed Miliband  2

Andy Burnham  1

Ed Balls  2

Diane Abbott 5

Make of it what you will.

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PLP leadership hustings: laughometer

08/06/2010, 06:45:26 PM

We did a laugh count at last night’s PLP leadership hustings.

Tiny chuckles weren’t recorded.

To score you had to get a proper laugh from a significant portion of the room.

David Miliband  1

Ed Miliband  4

Andy Burnham  3

Ed Balls  1

Make of it what you will.

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