We learned from Robbie Parker at Sandy Hook in 2012, that it doesn't matter how hard a crisis actor laughs; hypnotised TV consumers will justify it as grief.
Piers plays part of the double-act here by pretending to take his emotions seriously when it's plain to see the Health Secretary Matt Hancock, is creased-up laughing at the notion of the second person to receive the Pfizer vaccine, William Shakespeare.
All the world is a stage?