Mr. Henchy said its original conceit was "a Comedy Central version of a sitcom," built on the premise that "we all grew up on these laugh-tracked, multicamera, brightly lit shows".
"These discussions, these dares, these laughs, these hesitations, these tiffs, these struggles — they aren't new.
Last year these laughing gas balloons fuelled a cottage industry for young party-goers.
Scarcely a sense that these laughs are a sign of teetering on the edge.
When the recorded data are tabulated, these laughs are rated as successful movie jokes, and the scores are high.
Mr. Trilling "gave off a soberly academic whiff of disapproval of these laughing English writers," Mr. Price writes.
"He's the most boring little old man from Texas who has these laughs that make him look like a Muppet sometimes".
But you're getting all these laughs because it's so bad.
In behavioral pilot testing, we found that naïve listeners performed significantly better than chance in classifying the recorded laughs as "real" (Evoked) or "posed" (Emitted), in line with how these laughs were produced as an expression of genuine amusement, or not.
They laughed, and when these two laugh, they really laugh.
