laugh track

NOUN
  1. prerecorded laughter added to the soundtrack of a radio or television show
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How To Use laugh track In A Sentence

  • Now imagine the same scene with a laugh track. Times, Sunday Times
  • But this collective assumption raises two questions: 1. If TV audiences have come to accept that comedic shows without laugh tracks are edgier and more meaningful, is it not possible that the reverse would also be true in other words, does removing the laugh track change the way a viewer preconceives the show, regardless of its content? Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television
  • The more dimensionless the character, the less you'll need to use that laugh track like a cripple who needs to use his crutches to beg for spare change... the spare change of laughter, that is. Joe Cristalli: How to Successfully Write Broad Comedy
  • From cartoons to sitcoms, the stars are now sassy children who deliver flip one-liners, put down authority figures and revel in a laugh track.
  • Like laugh tracks, they cue our emotional responses, but they also disguise their coerciveness by making us feel included.
  • They want to make screwball romantic comedies but they wind up producing sitcoms that look lost without a laugh track.
  • Now imagine the same scene with a laugh track. Times, Sunday Times
  • He looked his usual comfortable if twitchy self, and seemed to pick up right where he left off, with a Godfather-style newsreel, complete with laugh track, that recalled his annus horribilis. Canada.com Top Stories
  • They did every convention, from pratfalls to bad catch phrases to a live audience that laughed uproariously at the stupidest jokes - and were then accentuated by a laugh track.
  • Traditional sitcoms, in particular, have fallen out of fashion as networks ditched the laugh track in recent years for "dramedies" such as "Desperate Housewives" and fresher formats in the vein of the mock documentary "The Office. A Nerdy Comedy's Winning Formula
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