Honestly, he kind of wants to laugh, and Joker does, although it's only a couple of small chuckles. All this work sure is doing its job of exhausting them, he has to say. Everything else, like the overwhelming sense of despair, can't be helping.

"I'm good at handling a crowd," he tells her honestly. He's a ringmaster first and foremost. 'Diplomat', well, that kind of got shoved onto a group of people who didn't really have the first idea of how to actually do it. "I like ta think I can handle people, but you'll find that there are a lot of stubborn folks in our lot that don't listen ta reason or loved ones. It's gonna be worse after what we've all just been through. I've learned not ta make promises on anythin' in that arena."