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I’m going to make you feel old. It’s been 25 years since the final episode of Father Ted. Can you sense the cold hand of mortality reaching out to grab your shoulder?
The sitcom laugh track has finally died after a long illness. Now what were we being made to laugh at all those years?
To laugh is human, in a full room, divine We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Not all laughter is created equal. Consider the canned variety. For decades it was the rule that TV and radio comedy came with a pre-recorded laugh track, and Charley Douglass was their maestro. The sound engineer at CBS studios cobbled together a machine out of household odds-and-ends on which he could store up to 320 different laughs, from the gentle murmuring titter to the full-throated guffaw. He’d play them like a mad organist, pumping pedals ...