Laugh track

As Lach Preserve, organ Lach, Lach machine, laugh track or plastic Lacher (English laugh track, canned laughter or laugh machine), refers to a recorded tape-recorded laughter, which is especially played in sitcoms following a punch line.

For the first time a joke Preserve in the Hank McCune Show was used in September 1950. The trains from the assumption that people who watch television alone, would not laugh and should be animated by a laugh recording it.

To let the laughter appear authentic and individual, many sitcoms are recorded before an audience. So get into the soundtrack also applause, heckling and expression of surprise, astonishment, or disappointment, such as moaning. The reactions of the audience in attendance, however, is for the viewers to fulfill the same purpose as canned food. During synchronization, such records must be resorted to canned laughter often, as there are often other lengths of the dialogue comes through the translation and thus in time no longer fits the laughter from the studio audience in the original. With applause, heckling and the like procedure is the same.

Rehearsed laughter is passed as an example of inter- passivity.

Examples

Laughing Preserve, public domain audio file? / I

Some better-known sitcoms with laugh canned in the German dubbing:

  • Alf
  • All under one roof
  • Becker
  • Dharma & Greg
  • The Cosby Show
  • The Nanny
  • The wild seventies
  • A house full of daughters
  • Hogan's Heroes
  • Married with Children
  • A trio good enough to eat
  • Frasier
  • Friends
  • Full House
  • The Golden Girls
  • What I Like
  • Listen, Home Improvement
  • How I Met Your Mother
  • Good Luck Charlie
  • Mr. Bean
  • The King of Queens
  • Roseanne
  • Rules of Engagement
  • Still Standing
  • Two and a Half Men
  • Growing Pains
  • Who 's the Boss?
  • What's up, Dad?

In a few well-known in Germany sitcoms in the original canned laughter were used:

  • Alf
  • Married with Children ( episode to 1.12 )

Canned laughter often been used particularly in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States, but these were rarely aired in Germany.

Family Matters Becker (TV series) Married... with Children What I Like About You (TV series) Rules of Engagement (TV series) Still Standing (TV series)
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