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Make 'Em Laugh

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

CHAPTER

The Early Laugh Track

The laugh track began in earnest in 19 50, when an engineer named charles douglas, a sound engineer at c b s, developed not only the idea that you could insert pre recorded laughter, but he built and designed it himself. The exact same guffaws and shrieks that people heard in the fifties are still sweetening modern teady shows.

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