He soon becomes a laughingstock, unable to live down his reputation. Their team was now the laughingstock of the league. However, his cultural ignorance and general roughness makes him a laughingstock. The club was long considered the laughingstock of the NBA. CNET's Alfred Ng called the bust "ugly" and made Ronaldo a "laughingstock" of Twitter. He mistakenly climbs into a teacher's room instead, and becomes the laughingstock of the school. It's Pontius Pilate and the character in the film is made to an absolute laughingstock. Cooper is no longer a laughingstock and is praised for taking down Cortez. Nonetheless, the setup made the A's a laughingstock in the Bay Area. Word leaks out to the press and Gary is now the laughingstock of New York.