canned laughter
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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
Their Michael continually clicks over from reality into an imaginary TV show where saxophones and canned laughter take the sting out of his pain.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
If it wasn’t canned laughter and there was a real audience, then they must have had a copy of the script.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2017
Some extremely advanced paranoiacs can’t even watch television because they think the canned laughter is about them.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
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