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laugh track en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The soundtrack of laughter sounds that accompanies a television comedy show.
   • You know where you never see a camcorder? At a funeral. Wouldn't that be fun? Especially if you didn't know any of the people there. Why not go to a stranger's funeral, and bring your camcorder? Have a little fun! Zoom in on the corpse's nose hairs. Then pull back, and pan over to the widow's tears. Get a tight shot of that. Do a montage of people wracked with grief. Then go home and put a laugh track on it! Smoke a joint and show it to your friends. That would be a lot of fun. 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 173:
   • Possibly a show with no laugh track would improve with a well-done laugh track. 2004, Robert Kubey, Creating Television, →ISBN:
   • There were shows where they let us not use a laugh track ... and portions of shows. Whenever they were in the O.R. or serious surgery, there was no laugh track. 2013, Allan Neuwirth, They'll Never Put That on the Air: The New Age of TV Comedy, →ISBN:
   • He felt it weird to have this discussion with a laugh track running faintly in the background. 2012, Ridley Pearson, No Witnesses, →ISBN:

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Synonyms

laughter track · canned laughter