Have you ever been watching a movie or TV show with family or friends when one of them gets tickled and can't stop laughing. Maybe it wasn't even that funny to you, but they can't stop. You look at them for a bit and think what was so funny. It's not long and next thing you know you can't stop laughing. It escalates to a point that you think you can't breathe. Let's face it, laughter is contagious. It's more viral than Ebola. (Now see that kinda made me chuckle).
Some of you might remember the old sitcoms that used a "laugh track"(Hogan's Hero's, Get Smart, The Brady Bunch, just to mention a few). It was a set of prerecorded laughs that were inserted at key times to prompt a laugh from the viewer. Obviously, they were a lot more reliable than a live audience. What I didn't know was that one man and his family had a corner on the "laugh track". The man responsible for those adorable laughs was Charley Douglass. For years he would take his "box" of laughs to studios and "Lay in the laughs"
The contraption that he used to bring his fictitious crowd to life was recently appraised on the Antiques Roadshow for $10,000.00.
I have to admit, the old shows with the laugh track would get me to smile. Sometimes, I would even laugh out loud. LOL!
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More laughs to you today!
-Red
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