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[ricardo shillyshally]

I realised that the laughter(real,fake,sweetened) is part of the show. I've just been reading about how laughter is a social experience, but with inserted laughter even people at home can have the same experience. 'Soon after the advent of the laugh track, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz devised a method of filming with a live audience using a multi-camera setup. This process was originally employed for their sitcom I Love Lucy, which used a live studio audience and no laugh track.[2] Multi-camera shows with live audiences sometimes used recorded laughs to supplement responses. While witnessing an early post-production editing session, comedian Milton Berle once pointed out a particular joke and said, "as long as we're here doing this, that joke didn't get the response we wanted". After Douglass inserted a hearty laugh after the failed joke, Berle reportedly commented, "See? I told you it was funny".'(Eric Levin)

Of course it's also a prompt, subconscious.