They have required of him that he should feel amused, or affect to feel amused, by their efforts.

He has had to supplement his skill as a musician by his readiness as an actor.

It has been thought desirable that the audience should be enabled to exclaim: "The great So-and-So _must_ be funny! Why, see, the man at the piano, who plays for him every night, who has, of course, seen his performances scores and scores of times, even _he_ can't help laughing, the great So-and-So is so funny." The audience, thus convinced, find themselves, no doubt, very highly amused.

Garrick himself appears, on one occasion at any rate, to have been much enraged at the indifference of a member of his band.

Cervetto, the violoncello player, once ventured to yawn noisily and portentously while the great actor was delivering an address to the audience.