The laughing man in the studio audience

[cspotrun]

Didn't syndicated radio talkers Bob & Tom start their careers as sitcom audience laughers?

i'm convinced those two have created their own "Laugh Track"- canned recordings of them laughing are played through out their show most noticable during song bits... because, there is really nothing funny going on so, they're the ONLY ones laughing at this show.

 

[benwolf]

The most obnoxious fake laughter now is on Saturday Night Live during Weedend Update. Back when the show was funny, the audience supplied the real laughs. Now the off-camera staff is apparently told to laugh in hysterics at every lame joke...ugh.

 

[oldtimeradio]

And, don't forget Lorenzo Music during the Mary Tyler Moore Show, and maybe others. He had quite a distinctive laugh.

Mike

 

[Ultimajock]

.anyone else besides me remember a regular audience member for the Merv Griffin Show named Mrs. Miller?

Yes, I do remember her but I believe she was "transferred" over to Merv after the Tonight Show left N. Y. C. for L.A. I vaguely remember her being in the audience the Jack Paar Show. Probably the Friday night prime time show. I am too young for the Paar years of the Tonight Show.

...Miss Miller was the other guest on the Jack Paar Program featuring the "duet" of Liberace and Cassius Clay (as he was still calling himself) originally scheduled for airing on NBC the night of November 22, 1963; because of the assassination of President Kennedy, that program was run the following week instead...and a few weeks later (IIRC), while Lucille Ball was in New York to appear on a prime time broadcast of Password, Ball was identified -- by her laugh -- as being in Paar's audience for one of his Sunday night tapings ("Thank you, Lucy. I'd know that laugh anywhere!")...

 

[Ultimajock]

...by the way, there was also a Mrs. Miller, who cut particularly awful versions of pop songs for Capitol Records in the mid-'60s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Miller is her Wikipedia listing...

 

[nightfly61]

Then there was the "half hearted half-laugh" tracks used on Operation Petticoat. Not to stray from the topic, but why did they bleep out cuss words on that show if it was always on T.V? I mean, were there some closed circuit PG versions out there that left the cussing in? Did they purposely put the bleep & cuss word in the script? I mean, there was no studio audience to react to a real cuss word (if there was one). ??? ??? ???