Do you feel that we don't take laughter seriously enough as a society? I think the laugh track is really interesting since you mentioned it. The original laugh track was developed to become infectious and to sweeten moments when there wasn't laughter or desweeten moments when laughter went on too long because laughter can get weird. And professional mourners are a lot like professional laughers and professional mourners have been for centuries to laugh in a certain way at funerals so that the laugh, I mean, doesn't control the audience's response.

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