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	Laugh track - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A laugh track, laughter track or canned laughter is a separate soundtrack with the artificial sound of audience laughter, made to be inserted into TV comedy shows and sitcoms, mostly in the United States.
		From the beginning, laugh tracks were derided as being a "cue" for the viewing audience to laugh at the appropriate time during a TV show, as if they would not know otherwise.
		Laugh tracks have even been used in some traditionally animated television series, for which common sense would tell the viewer that a live audience would be impossible, unless the audience were watching the cartoon being played back.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laugh_track (641 words)

	TVparty: the laugh track
		Early uses of the laugh track are quaint by today's standards: 'The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet' used only one laugh throughout its half-hour running time, and 'The Abbott and Costello Show' used an uproarious laugh track which ran continuously, regardless of the action on screen.
		The engineer "orchestrates" the laugh track by using the keyboard to select the type, sex, and age of the laugh, while playing the foot pedal to determine each reaction's length.
		The laugh machine remains in use, but few "laugh men" (as they are known in the post-production industry) have come forward to acknowledge or discuss their work.
	www.tvparty.com /laugh.html (1445 words)

	DVD Talk Forum - My biggest Sitcom Pet Peeve...
		It's even worse when the laugh track is stuck on a scene filmed outdoors and obviously not infront of a studio audience (cough, Will and Grace, cough).
		Hmm, the "laugh tracks" at the two sitcom tapings I've been to (Newsradio and That 70's Show) were for the most part real (as in, recordings of the studio audience).
		In both cases, they did instruct the audience on their laughing (or oohing) for retakes, when they thought it was excessive (or not enough).
	www.dvdtalk.com /forum/printthread.php?t=247674 (1260 words)

	Something Old, Nothing New: Bring Back the Laugh Track! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A laugh track is useful because it identifies the show as a comedy, right away, for people who have just tuned in.
		Well, the laugh track is the "Comedy Tonight" of a sitcom: its purpose is not to tell the audience that individual jokes are funny, but to tell people who have just tuned in that it's a comedy.
		The laugh track is incredibly irritating with an unfunny show, because there's nothing more irritating than hearing forced laughter on the sountrack when you yourself have found nothing to laugh at.
	zvbxrpl.blogspot.com /2004/05/bring-back-laugh-track.html (918 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: Why do sitcoms have laugh tracks?
		I realize this doesn't say much for TV viewers, but the answer to your question essentially is yes--the purpose of a laugh track is to tell the audience when it's time to laugh.
		For those who've spent the last 55 years in a monastery, a laugh track is a pre-recorded effect inserted into most sitcoms not taped in front of a live audience.
		The laugh track is generally added in post-production--that is, during editing after the show is taped.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mlaughtrack.html (756 words)

	On many sitcoms, the laugh track's not on us anymore - The Boston Globe
		Later, these shows are doctored with laugh tracks to make the live audience mirth more consistent and more forceful.
		To me, they're as absurd as the idea of a cry track, which would play sobbing during the sad moments of ''Without a Trace," or a shock track that would let shrieks loose during ''Lost." They bully us into having a particular reaction to what we're seeing.
		While laugh tracks make watching TV seem like a communal event, they provide us with a fake and garish community I'd rather not mingle with.
	www.boston.com /ae/tv/articles/2005/10/06/on_many_sitcomsthe_laugh_tracksnot_on_us_anymore (631 words)

	He's at the beginning of his laugh track - The Boston Globe
		He got a laugh or two early on, but the laughter soon turned to silence and the occasional heckle.
		The glares shouted, ''How dare you laugh at a big man, a very big man, who is not funny!" J.J. was dying on stage, and I was dying for him.
		The audience laughed, and the stage didn't appear to be such a horribly lonely and stark place.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/03/19/hes_at_the_beginning_of_his_laugh_track (744 words)

	Printable Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This last laugh — it seems to involve the entire studio audience, leading me to believe that everyone watching was having the time of their life while I was sitting home, wondering what was so funny.
		If the laugh track is supposed to make us feel better, maybe it should be applied in other ways.
		A laugh track at a legislative hearing would be a good start.
	www.helenair.com /articles/2005/01/25/yourtime/d05012105_02.prt (540 words)

	Halfbakery: Laugh-Track Off-Button
		Laugh tracks are also easier to remove because while the laugh track is playing, nothing else is happening.
		The purpose of laugh tracks appears to have changed over the years.
		In checking on the hoohah coming from the television my son was watching, I found that he was transfixed by the scene of a couple of immobile overdressed dummies exchanging amazingly lame one-liners and mugging at one another during the long pauses for the subsequent noise.
	www.halfbakery.com /lr/idea/Laugh-Track_20Off-Button (794 words)

	User talk:Oanabay04 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This laugh track is known for sounding especially tinny, and containing less than ten different laughs.
		Hanna-Barbera useed their home-grown laugh track to their animated shows after 1972 as a cost-saving measure; it was less expensive to add their own chuckles instead of hiring Charley Douglass's company (who added laugh tracks to all the major network shows).
		It would be much better to simply mention that The Such and Such Show had a laugh-track, and go into detail about the laugh track on the laugh track page, where someone who is looking for the information will find it and it appears more relevant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User_talk:Oanabay04 (1342 words)

	London's Live Laugh Track
		Laughing out loud, they graphically disproved the suggestion that comics -- especially British comics -- are a morose bunch off-stage.
		Sitting a few rows from the stage, I laughed so hard I almost rocked off my chair and my abiding memory of the night is the sound of my friends convulsing at least as uncontrollably.
		Deploying the standard attack strategy, he immediately set-upon those in the front row, moving effortlessly from a group of recruitment professionals still wearing their office ties to a table of South African visitors who looked decidedly perplexed for most of the evening.
	www3.telus.net /johnlee/londoncomedy.html (2205 words)

	DVDork.com Forums - Now this is pretty weird (DVD Related)
		Actually it was wierd one day I was watching 'That 70's Show' and for some reason the laugh track caught my attention and for the rest of the show it bugged the absolute crap out of me..
		The creator of the show has a little message at the start of the DVD saying how much he hates laugh tracks, and why it was removed.
		Then again, most of the crap on TV these days would be impossible to laugh at if it didn't have a laugh track.
	www.dvdork.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1511 (455 words)

	I Am A Cheeseburger: I Am Not Your Laugh-Track
		Refuse to be a laugh-track for near- and far-miss wit.
		In fact, when someone makes a joke they know to be lackluster they may not expect you to laugh at the telling, but they will when they explain their own frank assessment of the joke's calibre.
		This is, of course, because their own insecurity has created a moment of emotional tension, which can only be popped with the validation of non-derisive laughter.
	mfdh.blogspot.com /2004/11/i-am-not-your-laugh-track.html (770 words)

	OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts Responses
		What I hate most about canned laughs is that 98% of the alleged jokes and gags they are intended to highlight are not the least bit funny.
		When he says "non" just like a Frenchman who has never seen action in Vietnam, the laugh box is turned on, you throw all of the howls, the guffaws, the hyena laugh, giggling and gasps of air on loud but of course with Mr.
		The laugh track is a perfect supporting character when it comes to a show.
	www.opinionjournal.com /la/responses.html?article_id=110003464 (1465 words)

	DVD Talk Forum - What's a Laugh-Track for?
		I know that some sound work is done on the laugh tracks of some shows, but I don't believe that it's as extensive as you think.
		I think the laugh track is horribly outdated and I wish more shows had the guts to just do away with them altogether.
		They probably inserted the laugh track so kids knew what of the more "adult" humor was supposed to be funny.
	www.dvdtalk.com /forum/printthread.php?t=189434 (1573 words)

	Laugh Track
		The fifteen stories selected for Laugh Track are an eclectic mix, ranging from a haunting vignette called "You," to "Triptych," the tale of an elementary school teacher whose men in her life include a precocious third-grader.
		In the title story, a failed comedian brings a recorded laugh track to his regular Wednesday psychoanalytic session.
		Laugh Track offers fifteen different worlds--from a blocked expatriate writer in Mexico, to a drug heist gone wrong in downtown Manhattan, to a love affair pursued at the last leper colony in the United States.
	www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/spring2002/laugh_track.html (363 words)

	Salon \| Laugh track
		If so, that was fine with him, since his pain was mostly gone, his fatigue was gone, he could turn his neck and play the piano again, he discarded his metal braces, and the gravelly nodules on his neck and the backs of his hands shrank.
		Cousins wrote his book in response to people asking "whether it was true that I 'laughed' my way out of a crippling disease that doctors believed to be irreversible." The parts about aspirin, vitamin C and hand-to-hand combat with overzealous phlebotomists aroused little interest in comparison to the Marx Brothers cure.
		Many people were drawn to the idea of laughing their way (or in my case, gak-horking my way) to good health.
	www.salon.com /health/feature/1999/09/08/laughter/print.html (2604 words)

	The Infinite Mind: New York Daily News
		The "MASH" producers also thought the laugh* track changed the whole show, but could only convince CBS to drop it for operating room scenes.
		In any case, what's interesting is that researchers would break down the difference a laugh track makes.
		Turns out 70%-80% of the times that we laugh, it's not because anything was funny.
	www.lcmedia.com /dailynews2005.htm (408 words)

	The Lucy Shows
		The "Uh-Oh Lady" button had to be the most frequently used control on the laugh track machine.
		I'd be interested to know how many times they used her on the laugh track.
		I can envision a little old lady in a nursing home somewhere today telling her friends that she used to be the Uh-Oh Lady on the laugh track of "I Love Lucy".
	www.tvparty.com /movlucy.html (607 words)

	RelishNow \| Quietly Comical: Sitcoms are finally kicking the crutch of laugh tracks
		Laugh tracks continue to set our teeth on edge, both on elders such as Will and Grace and newbies such as How I Met Your Mother.
		To me, they're as absurd as the idea of a cry track, which would play sobbing during the sad moments of Without a Trace.
		Though laugh tracks make watching TV seem like a communal event, they provide us with a fake and garish community I'd rather not mingle with.
	www.journalnow.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_RelishArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031785515535&path=!news!entertainment!television!sub!article&s=1037645508994 (800 words)

	Antipixel \| Blog \| Laugh Track
		Another thing I thought today was what it would be like to work at a laugh-track production house making laugh tracks and other simulated laughter products, but business is bad and they laid off everyone except me so now I have to do all the voices.
		One of my friend’s Dad invented the laugh track machine that does most of the sitcoms and stuff in the States.
		I’ve long thought there’s a book waiting to be written about the laugh track and its relationship to the inherent loneliness of televised entertainment.
	www.antipixel.com /blog/archives/2004/03/16/laugh_track.html (256 words)

	Laugh Track - Page 3 - The Unofficial Opie and Anthony Message Board - Wackbag.com
		TO be honest, knowing it was a live audience and no laugh track made laughing at it easier than most sitcoms.
		One scene that nobody is mentioning, that made me, my wife and the audience laugh was then ending of the meat spanking in the supermarket.
		For those who think it was weird that stuff you found unfunny got big laughs, that's fine, but remember that if you're there in person and actually watching it happen, with tons of other people around you, you're more likely to laugh.
	www.wackbag.com /showthread.php?p=1060842#post1060842 (507 words)

	USATODAY.com - On the laugh track (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alas, that is not to be — not after Dad (Jeffrey Tambor) is sent to jail for fraud, leaving Michael in charge of the new season's funniest and oddest brood.
		Even in a show that is two steps away from a shambles, she made me laugh.
		We may laugh at little shows that sneak up on us, while rejecting admittedly glossier and more competent shows that fail to match their build-up.
	www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2003-09-11-fall-tv_x.htm (2129 words)

	'Sports Night' one of best players in season's starting lineup
		The laugh track is absent in tonight's first scene set in a hectic control room just before air time.
		True, the laughs are sporadic, and I still think the show would be better off without them altogether, but great care has been taken to make sure they're not overly intrusive.
		In both episodes the laughs primarily come during scenes with associate producer Natalie Hurley (Sabrina Lloyd) and the new research analyst on staff (Josh Malina), whom she has a crush on.
	www.postgazette.com /magazine/19980922sports5.asp (963 words)

	washingtonpost.com: With 'Office,' NBC Goes Off the Beaten Laugh Track
		There will be no laugh track for "The Office" on NBC, joining a small number of network comedies that operate sans canned guffaws such as "Scrubs" and "Arrested Development" and the HBO hit "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
		but take the laugh track away, you don't know where the humor is. It could be a reaction shot.
		And people who love pineapples who are used to the mature fruit, they might be looking at our little plant and thinking it's not as sweet as pineapple I've had before, but to them I would say: Let it ripen.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A47391-2005Mar18?language=printer (1400 words)

	The Laugh Track - Parenting Tips for Dads
		Jacob loves special effects, so this had his raspy giggle chiming in as the kids laughed all the way through the story, falling over each other, and watching me with tears in their eyes.
		Benjamin has a genius belly laugh, but Jacob is the real comic in the family.
		I may not always be able to inspire their chuckles, but I have no intention of getting off the laugh track.
	www.keepkidshealthy.com /parenting_tips/dads/laugh_track.html (1004 words)

	CINCYPUNK: Review / Sloppy Meateaters - Conditioned by the Laugh Track (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sloppy Meateaters have been around for some time now and with a third full length, Conditioned by the Laugh Track, under their belts, the band is poised to either make their mark and enjoy the notoriety of success in the music business, or crash and burn like thousands of bands before them
		The 12 other tracks are similar to the first two in the vein of their crunching guitars, wailing monolithic vocals, and danceable beats.
		Give their new album (Conditioned by the Laugh Track) at least five play throughs and you'll see what I'm talking about.
	www.cincypunk.org /v1/content.php?review.50 (569 words)

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