A laugh track (also canned laughter, laughter track, fake laughter) is a separate soundtrack with the artificial sound of audience laughter, made to be inserted into television programming of comedy shows. It was invented by American sound engineer Charles "Charley" Douglass.
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“Now get you to my lady’s chamber, and tell her, let her paint
an inch thick, to this favor she must come; make her laugh at
that.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)