How The Laugh Track Made TV Jokes Seem Funny Even If They Really Weren’t

from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson

Today in 1910, the birthday of Charlie Douglass, who popularized the use of prerecorded laughter to help TV comedies seem more funny. Amirite folks? Plus: an astronaut uses microgravity to demonstrate a shape that we can't reproduce on Earth. Charles Rolland 'Charlie' Douglass (Variety via Archive.org) The Art of Science: Soft Cell in Space (University of Oxford) Laugh along with our show every day as a backer on Patreon

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