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laugh track

noun

  1. a separate sound track of prerecorded laughter added to the sound track of a radio or television program to enhance or feign audience responses.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of laugh track1

First recorded in 1960–65
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Example Sentences

None of this makes sense out of context—nor, despite a laugh track deployed so frequently I felt gaslighted, is any of it funny.

From Time

“We get it,” he replied as the laugh track on the FX comedy roared.

The result was strange, a sort of jerryrigged Eden with a laugh track, somehow both idyllic and lunatic all at once.

Decoding the laugh track of the CNN Debate in Arizona, featuring references to George Costanza and bogeyman Mike Dukakis.

Can the White House turn off the laugh track and give us both?

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