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- Novelist and scriptwriter Michael J. Buchanan-Dunne, suggests that although canned laughter continued to be used through the 60s and 70s: Canned laughter did not have enough range to authentically convey such a complex human emotion, therefore when it was used it lacked subtlety, spontaneity, naturalism and quite often logic.
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Nov 5, 2021 · Yep, we're calling it: The sitcom laugh track, more recently known in the trade as "sweetened" audience laughter, canned laughter to its enemies, is finally stone-cold dead in its eighth...
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Dec 29, 2020 · NBC. By Abbey White Dec. 29, 2020 1:03 am EST. Once a staple of the American sitcom, the canned laughs of yesteryear have all but died out. Laugh tracks — or pre-recorded and sometimes even live...
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Apr 16, 2020 · Novelist and scriptwriter Michael J. Buchanan-Dunne, suggests that although canned laughter continued to be used through the 60s and 70s: Canned laughter did not have enough range to...
Sep 26, 2016 · The show was shot with a single camera – in other words, with no studio audience – but the network, nervous about the format, tested two versions: one with canned laughter and one without.
Apr 1, 2015 · But around the ’60s, the laugh track started taking over the need for an audience completely and eventually replaced real people, saving costs on the production, but setting itself up —...
Jul 20, 2010 · How did canned laughter come about? The concept actually goes back at least five hundred years. History tells us that there were audience “plants” in the crowds at Shakespearean performances in the 16th century.
