Meaning of laugh track | Babel Free

Definitions

The soundtrack of laughter sounds that accompanies a television comedy show.

Examples

“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.”

“Possibly a show with no laugh track would improve with a well-done laugh track.”

“He felt it weird to have this discussion with a laugh track running faintly in the background.”

“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.”

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