Communication Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something…

— Henri Bergson

So many shows don't have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.

— Casey Wilson

In point of fact, I'm not sure there are too many comedies with laugh tracks anymore. Most of what you hear is live studio…

— Christopher Lloyd

My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest to the…

— Steven Weber

You can't have a laugh track that sort of tells the audience when to laugh and, you know, it's difficult to find those moments.

— Chris Pratt

The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I…

— Jean Cocteau

These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

— Chuck Palahniuk

We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and 'sweetened' applause have been TV staples…

— Serge Schmemann

The laugh track was invented to cue the audience to the jokes and encourage laughter in response. But it has another effect: if you…

— Sarah Cooper

“What is laughter, after all, but a scream turned backward?”

— Maria Rachel Hooley