Can the canned laughterby Kevin Levine is a very interesting read. You should read it in its full glory. My favorite part is quoted here:
Can the canned laughter:
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One final note: On CHEERS and FRASIER we used recorded laughs from our own shows. Not so with other series. A lot of the laughs you hear were recorded fifty years ago. Many of the people you hear laughing are now dead.
Talk about leaving a legacy. Grandma may now be a distant memory but she’s still with us, every week, laughing at Jim Belushi.(Via By Ken Levine).
Kind of scary, isn't it? OTOH, who would notice?
