At what the dancers are doing which they intend to be funny which = laughing with; NOT at the bits that aren't intended to be so, which = laughing at the tradition, and the concept, as a whole, regarded among too many as something intrinsically absurd.

My point in OP-ing this thread was that some seemed to me to emerge from the Dancers Wanted For Pimms Ad thread as perhaps prone facilely to pander to the latter attitude as an unworthy popularity-winner at the expense of the tradition; & that indeed that was the aspect that the ad would be aimed at exploiting.

I think you knew this really. Smokey, & your question was a windup -- or else it was not - er - right bright.

~Michael~