Peter Simon is also a made up comic character. One designed NOT to get laughs. They were laughing at him, not with him tends fits the profile I’ve seen of the chortling that he gets in the studio from the juvenile sycophants surrounding him. I’ve seen two more genuine glimpses of him: one when he was caught talking candidly off camera a few months ago with the microphones left on, and previous to that, when he went off on one, which ultimately led to him being suspended by the previous version of Ideal World.
