Laugh track is a separate soundtrack for a recorded comedy show containing the sound of audience laughter.
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Laugh track is a separate soundtrack for a recorded comedy show containing the sound of audience laughter.
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Douglass laugh track became a standard in mainstream television in the U S, dominating most prime-time sitcoms and sketch comedies from the late 1950s to the late 1970s.
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Physically editing a taped audience show before electronic dubbing arrived caused bumps and gaps on the soundLaugh track; Douglass was then called upon to bridge these gaps.
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Network research suggested that the laugh track was mandatory in order to brand a single-camera show as a comedy.
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The experiment to see if a comedy fared better with a laugh track was tested in 1965 when CBS showed its new single-camera sitcom Hogan's Heroes to test audiences in two versions: one with the laugh track, the other without.
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Laugh track had dozens of reactions, and he knew where to find each one.
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Laugh track's work was well-appreciated by many in the television industry.
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Laugh track was used on some prime time animated television series, starting with The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, but only used it for the first four episodes of the series .
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Hanna-Barbera laugh track affected several television specials as well, many of them from The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie, which served as a showcase for hopeful new comedic cartoon shows.
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Lear was not a fan of pretaped audiences, resulting in no laugh track being employed, not even during post-production when Lear could have had the luxury of sweetening any failed jokes .
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Laugh track experimented with this technique in The Courtship of Eddie's Father, which featured a subdued laugh track.
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The only way to get away from a laugh track is to use music, which can indicate when something is funny.
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One notable exception to the use of a live audience was Thames Television's The Kenny Everett Video Show, whose laugh track consisted of spontaneous reaction to sketches from the studio production crew.
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However, when it entered the Canadian network realm, a laugh track was added which was composed almost exclusively of children's laughter, with some peppering of adult laughter.
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The last six episodes of 1982 corrected the repetition of the kiddie track by mixing different laughs together, along with the titter track.
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In 1986, a new children's laugh track was used with decidedly younger sounding laughs to match the material, which targeting a younger demographic than earlier seasons.
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