[Struggling to keep himself from laughing.]

Well, yeah, you're hilarious! But nah, you don't make me feel bad.

[He didn't mean to put that emphasis there, so now he's going to push right past it to another question and hope she doesn't notice.]

For real, some people just... have a different sense of humor, I guess. What, uh. What'd you say to Merlin that got his roots in a knot?