Canned Laughter
February 23, 2011
I decided to read the haha joke and i found it all makes perfect sense. PERFECT sense. I know this because i go through my fake laugh everyday listening to one of the girls i live with. I dont mean to be rude but there are stories she tells that make me want to jump of a bridge and shes laughing away and as i listen i fake my laugh to be polite. When i was younger i was also confused about hearing the canned laughter on television. I didnt think my laugh was being broadcast to everyone else who “laughed” at the same time but i did think that the live studio audience produced that exact laugh as heard on TV. I know i fit all the types of the 3 laughs explained. I have my real laugh which probably doesn’t come to often. Im not up tight but i feel like i fake real laugh a lot more of the time and may mistaken it to be a genuine laugh. But that applies in different ways. I know when i watch family guy ive seen every episode 100 times so i know what to expect a lot of the time so i know this upcoming part is funny so i make my self laugh when seeing it again and again. Ive been conditioned. Its not like the first time actually seeing and getting that real laugh out at what i just saw.
Overall i really liked this article. It wasnt that boring article you’ve read 100 times before and prepare to talk about the next day in class. It stirred up ideas and reminded of many things relevant to this topic. When thinking about this fake laughter it made me remember how much i hated it when i was getting older and realized that it was just a pre recorded room of people laughing and that they have various levels of it. Lucky this will one day be obsolete.
