0 recordings of laughter that have been added to a humorous radio or television programme when something funny has been said or done --
Partly due to the somewhat cerebral nature of the show's humor, the version without the laugh track failed while the version with canned laughter received an excellent reaction.
Issue was taken with the perceived over-use of canned laughter and what they considered to be poorly written, dated, cheap humour that attacked easy targets and propagated offensive stereotypes.
Some shows used the canned laughter technique very obviously rather than the in-between technique (a recording from an external audience, but genuine laughter) described as a laugh track.
Leading industry experts reasoned that laugh tracks were a necessary evil in prime time television: without the canned laughter, a show was doomed to fail.
Although artificial, canned laughter was not used, the laughter sometimes had to be tweaked during the editing process.
While they tell jokes, canned laughter is played, but the audience appears unamused.
These parts were performed and filmed on a closed set with the use of canned laughter to simulate a studio audience.
The primary purpose of the studio audience is to provide applause and/or laughter to the program's soundtrack (as opposed to canned laughter).
