Possible Clues:

• Employ people in the mat, just for fun
• Entertain the chaps at a bar, causing mirth
• Something essential to entertain English people?
• Outside, you think, meant to create a diversion
• Employ people in the twisted mat, just for fun
• (State of) finding something funny
• Beer and skittles
• Diversion set up through arcade?
• Funny way to get at about thinking people, perhaps
• Diversion, recreation