Laugh track
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A laugh track is an audio recording consisting of laughter usually used as a separate soundtrack for comedy productions. The laugh track may contain live audience reactions or artificial laughter made
The test to see if a sitcom could survive without a laugh track was performed on the pilot episode of Hogan's Heroes
Charles Douglass
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Charles Rolland Douglass was a Mexican-born American sound engineer, credited as the inventor of the laugh track.
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…inserted into the show, or a combination of the two. The use of canned laughter to "sweeten" the laugh track was pioneered by American sound engineer Charles Douglass. The Douglass laugh track became a standard in mainstream television in the U.S., dominating most prime-time sitcoms and sketch comedies from the late…
Douglass in the University of Nevada, Reno yearbook, 1933