I have one of those coffee tables that can serve as a desk (top swings up), I have it on a laptop cooler on there.
Laptop overheats (older IBM Thinkpad) and will shut itself down, so I bought a Cooler Master laptop cooler/stand with 2 fans mounted on the bottom, so far working out wonderful, keeps it happy.
Only had the cooler stand a month though and one of the fans bit the dust a few days ago, spliced in one of my own in it's place from my parts bin. The stand design is nice, keeps it at an angle/easier to type, the fans it came with are shit.