I just realized I didn't really answer Maryann's question.
The thing about laugh-out-loud funny is it depends so much on mood and surprise. I did laugh out loud the first time I read "evacuate with us" in that poem, but not the second time. After the first time the funny part was more remembering how funny it was the first time. I was in the right mood the first time, plus the phrase surprised me. A lot of light or humorous verse, like a lot of poetry in general, lacks surprise--an unexpected turn of wit or language. So even if it's chuckle material it's not really laugh-out-loud material.
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