Well at least he had a sense of humour!...something that's sorely lacking in some people.

First thing they teach you in reporter school, never never never hold a microphone and a mushroom at the same time, it's a recipe for disaster and the main ingredient in mushroom soup. Having said that is it a mushroom? Having said that isn't the sound of someone laughing like that just the most joyful sound in the world, doesn't matter what nationality or language it's always the same and I love it. What keeps it going is that little voice on a loop in your brain saying "you were talking through a mushroom, talking through a mushroom, not a microphone but a mushroom, isn't that the funniest thing ever, a mushroom, you old fool, you were basically talking through a mushroom"

Well it seemed to work ok, I could hear him...