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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a clip from the hit TV series,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Parks and Recreation."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...128 ounce option.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most people call it a gallon, but they
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,call it the regular.\NNow let's see what
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that same clip would\Nbe like if we added
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a laugh track.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[rewind sound]\N...128 ounce option.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]\NMost people call it a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gallon, [laughter]\Nbut they call it the regular. [laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seems so wrong,\Nbut for most of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,television history, it was\Nso right. [background laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the last half century\Nor so almost every
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,comedy on television had canned laughter,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from "I Love Lucy"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to "The Big Bang Theory."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For some, the laughter is viewed as an
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,imposition. For others, a secondary
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,character you almost forgot was there,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until it wasn't anymore.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In recent years, the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laugh track has been used less and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,less as sitcoms in general have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,decreased in popularity.\NLet's break down
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the mysterious laugh box came from
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and where it went.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before television existed,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was the ballet, the opera,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,magic and comedy shows.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you went to one of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these events, you were
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,experiencing the audience reactions in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,real time.\NIf something was shocking,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could hear and\Nfeel the gasps echo
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around you and\Nsimilarly with laughter.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then came the radio,\Nthe first ever
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,broadcast medium.\NThose communal
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reactions disappeared as American
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,families gathered in their living rooms
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be entertained.\NRadio producers wanted
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to develop a way to give people the live
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,experience at home.\NThe first-ever laugh
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,track began with\NBing Crosby's radio show.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recording pioneer Jack Mullen
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recalls the creation to "Channels of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Communication," a trade journal in 1981.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The hillbilly comic Bob Burns was on the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,show one time and through a few of his
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then extremely racy and off-color folksy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,farm stories into the show. We recorded
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it live and they all got enormous laughs,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we couldn't use the jokes. So
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,scriptwriter Bill Morrow asked us to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,save the laughs.\NA couple of weeks later he
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had a show that wasn't\Nvery funny and he
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,insisted that we put\Nin the salvage laughs.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thus the laugh track was born.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fast forward to the\Nera of early television.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Comedies were filmed with a single
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,camera in front of a live audience.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That meant that each scene would be filmed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,multiple times from multiple angles,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of the multi cams today, which
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have multiple cameras capturing one take.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those separate angles and takes would be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cut together and when that happened, the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laughter was inconsistent.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Audiences would laugh at the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wrong time, too loudly,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for too long and were simply unreliable.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the late 1940s, CBS sound engineer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Charlie Douglas noticed those
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inconsistencies and couldn't take it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anymore. If a joke didn't get a desired
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laugh, he would insert one with the use
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a laugh track. This technique became
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,known as "sweetening." Douglass went so far
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as to create a physical laugh box.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to Ron Simon, curator of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,television and radio at the Paley Center
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for Media, the device was about three
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feet tall, the shape of a filing cabinet,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very heavy and had slots for 32 reels,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which could hold ten laughs each. It was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,officially named the audience response
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,duplicator, but it became known as the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"laugh box." At its best,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the "laugh box" could hold 320
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laughs. Press them one at a time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you get a similar laugh.\N[single laugh]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Press multiple keys at once \N[laughter] and a symphony of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laughter would play.\NEach key represented
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a different age, sex,\Nand style of laugh,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a foot pedal regulating the way.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The "laugh box" was mysterious though.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since Douglas owned the patent and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,created all of them, nobody outside of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,him and his family members had ever seen
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the inside of the machine. And when
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Douglas wasn't around, the machine was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kept tightly padlocked.\NIn an interview
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with "TV Guide" in 1966,\NDick Hobson said
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if the laugh box should start acting
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strangely, the laugh boys
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wheel it into the men's room,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,locking the door behind them so no
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one can peek.\NI mentioned the name
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Charlie Douglas and it's like Cosa
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nostra, everybody starts whispering.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the most taboo topic in TV.\NThe first sitcom to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,use the "laugh box" was the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,short-lived series, "The Hank McCune Show"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in 1950. [laughter on show]\NThe idea of recorded laughter
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spread throughout Hollywood and by the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1960s almost every single cameras sitcom
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was utilizing canned laughter. But it was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only Douglas that engineered the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laughing for everyone for almost a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,decade. For $100 Douglas would wheel the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mysterious box to each studio on a dolly
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sit with the producers in a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,screening room and decide what kind of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laughter and when. Eventually Douglas
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hired a second-in-command to keep up
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the 100 hours of television he
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,needed to sweeten.\NAnd the rest was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,history. Multicam sitcoms were
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,popularized in shows like "Friends,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Frasier," "Seinfeld" and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more incorporated canned laughter.\N[Sound of "Friends" in the background]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The actors and actresses would know to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hold for laughter, knowing that each
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,scene would be sweetened.\N[more sound from "Friends"] The Discovery
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Channel documentary, the one that goes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,behind the scenes, shows how it works.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Sometimes the audience responds too big.]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I went with the actual\Nlaugh, [laughter]that laugh
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is still going through her next line
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into his next reaction and that's, it's
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,five, six seconds. And in TV land that's
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an eternity. [laughter]\N[Sometimes we have to put in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a laughter that is shorter.]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It felt like comedies would be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like this forever. And then "The
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Big Bang Theory" went off the air in 2019
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and took with it one of the last
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,multicam sitcoms with canned laughter.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we look at the television landscape
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,today almost, every single comedy is a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,single-camera comedy and not a multicam
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sitcom with canned laughter. You can
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,count on two hands how many multicam
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sitcoms that use a laugh track are on TV
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right now, and not to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mention those that went off
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the air this year [2020].\NThe use of the laugh
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,track has almost disappeared completely
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the TV lineup.\NSo what changed?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dead air in television\Nused to be frowned upon
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and shows would push for laugh
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tracks whenever possible.\N[distant laugh track]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bill Cosby claimed his first sitcom, "The
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bill Cosby Show," that ran from 1961 to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1971, failed because he had insisted on
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not using a laugh track. Not to be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,confused with the very successful "The
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cosby Show" that aired in the 1980s and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did have a laugh track.\NAnd "MASH" fought
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to not have a laugh track at all, but
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they came to a compromise with the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,studio. They would use the canned
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laughter, but just not during the very
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,serious OR scenes.\NWhile we associate
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the 80s and the 90s with the laugh track,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was actually the time when single
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,camera comedies without canned laughter
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started to take over.\NA key player in this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,transition was HBO. Their show's
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Dream On" in 1990 and "The Larry Sanders
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Show" in 1992 ran without laughs tracks
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even garnered praise for doing so.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The airing of these shows proved that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,comedies could exist, and exist
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,successfully without laugh tracks. Other
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,studios took notice and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,began to follow suit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then came "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Malcolm
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Middle," "Scrubs,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Arrested Development," "It's Always Sunny
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Philadelphia," "30 Rock," "The Office" and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the list goes on and on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Writers and producers were excited by
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the change, as it allowed them to stray
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the constant stream of punchlines
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to explore character based humor. Another
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reason the laugh track fell to the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wayside? According to Mike Royce the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,co-showrunner of Netflix's\N"One Day at a Time,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I think one of the reasons why
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people don't like laugh tracks is they
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't like to be told how to react. It's
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an American thing: Don't tell me what the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[bleep] to laugh at."\N"T"he Big Bang Theory was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the last big sitcoms that used
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,canned laughter and even their creator
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chuck Lorre insisted that absolutely no
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sweetening took place on any of his
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,series, which also include "Two and a Half
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Men"" and Mike and Molly,"\Nstating "I do not
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have never, sweetened my shows with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fake laughs. I've always thought it was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pretty hateful and\Na self-defeating practice."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For now, the laugh track lives
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a very strange state. It's used in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very few shows, but lives on in the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reruns of ever popular series like
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Friends," "How I Met\NYour Mother," and more.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perhaps history might repeat itself
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we'll see a resurgence in multicam
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sitcoms and the laugh track.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until then, we can thank streaming
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,services like Netflix and Hulu for
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,keeping Charlie Douglass's legacy in our
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,living rooms. Thank you for watching.
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