canned laughter
Example Sentences
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Leanne says kindly, earning a few gales of canned laughter.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2025
"All the footage was covered in Japanese graphics, it's got Japanese narration, canned laughter, sound effects, it's a cacophony of noise and graphics," she explains.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2024
The supplied courtroom chuckling, a sort of dramatic canned laughter that accompanies Madeline's courtroom quips only goes so far.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2019
Let no one confuse it with a show using canned laughter, even though for people watching from home, there is no meaningful distinction between canned laughter and the manipulated, required laughter of a studio audience.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2014
Some extremely advanced paranoiacs can’t even watch television because they think the canned laughter is about them.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
