Will You Laugh for Me, Please?

I remember when I was little I had a laughing machine ... is it still on the market ?

Posted by Charly the Ejaculator on Jul 18, 2003 at 11:04 AM

I was expecting some details on the actual mechanics of the “laff box”. This article got a little too pretentious to read. The addition of “canned” laughter is not the problem with most TV programming, it is the content of the sitcom that blows.

Posted by demosuzuki on Jul 19, 2003 at 11:34 AM

A profound article. Let it awaken us to the fact that cultural conditioning and moral subversion is happening to us constantly in the most non-subtle ways.

Posted by Allan Weatherall on Jul 20, 2003 at 2:01 AM

a crappy device trying to tell me what is funny…its analagous to reading the top 40 list of albums to give me an idea of what good music is…which is crazy because 95% of the top 40 are pure garbage albums manufactured not for musical content but to sell as many records as possible to people who don’t have time to really listen to an album and discover some real musical talent…coltrane anyone?...the same for sitcoms…the majority are just mindless comedy shows that are watched just to pass the time because many can find nothing better to do with themselves then plop themselves in front of a screen…the jokes are all rehashed and lazy and nothing is gained from watching them…even with the laff machine, i still dont find the humor…

Posted by jebisaurus rex on Jul 21, 2003 at 9:39 AM

During ‘Natural Born Killers’ the “home life” rape/incest scenes included a laff trak that caused (some) audiences to initially laff, as if programmed to do so on cue, and then stop, horrified with the realization of the subject matter.  Har har.  The don’t call TV ‘programming’ for nothing…

Posted by NpC on Jul 23, 2003 at 5:33 PM

Significan emotional manipulation through subliminal response.

Posted by stefan the researcher on Jul 27, 2003 at 7:51 AM

This is a signifiacen observation of emotional manipulation through sublimal responses based on the human need to identify with others around them.

Posted by stefan the researcher on Jul 27, 2003 at 7:55 AM

Hi Lizzie:

Ah, another by SZ.

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Posted by Liz on Aug 2, 2003 at 6:06 PM

Great article. Since IE6 showed miniscule text I had to fire up Firebird in order to read it.

Posted by Laughing Boy on Aug 3, 2003 at 11:21 AM

Imagine using his device during the eulogy.

Posted by neil on Aug 5, 2003 at 11:11 PM