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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Famous quotes containing the words laugh and/or track:
“And I did laugh sans intermission
An hour by his dial. O noble fool,
A worthy fool—motley’s the only wear.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)