I ran into an old episode of Hogan’s Heroes the other day that stuck me as odd. It didn’t have a laugh track. Ironically, the show was one where two pilots were shown, one with and one without a laugh ...

For decades, a hidden machine determined when television audiences would laugh. Invented by engineer Charles Douglas, the “laugh box” blended hundreds of recorded reactions into seamless canned ...

When the cameras stopped grinding recently on an installment of I Love Lucy, Co-Star Desi Arnaz turned to thank the studio audience for its laughter during the filming of the show. Slipping up from ...