It only worked on some of the audience. About 50% of them I reckon.
"Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it." - Giordano Bruno to his judges on being sentenced to death without the shedding of blood.
I don't think anything on the TV is ever 'random' these days. It's all rehearsed and preplanned, even the so called 'spontaneous' man in the street interviews.
"If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking it is stupid." Albert Einstein