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Laugh Track Quotes

This collection holds 14 laugh track quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Mitchell Hurwitz, Zach Galifianakis and Bill Watterson.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian

I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.

Bill Watterson / Author

I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.

Bob Newhart / Stand-Up Comedian

I have an aversion to laugh tracks - the moment I hear a laugh track, I go to another channel.

Josh Radnor / Actor

There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.

Bill Bixby / Film Actor

Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.

Mitchell Hurwitz / Television Writer

When you don't have a laugh track, you can make the clothes funny. We can make a sign funny. We can make the way somebody walks funny. The makeup can be funny.

Mona Eltahawy / Journalist

What is satire if not a marriage of civil disobedience to a laugh track, a potent brew of derision and lack of respect that acts as a nettle sting on the thin skin of the humourless?

Teddy Thompson / Musician

I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I'm trying to be funny.

Alia Shawkat / Actress

We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on.

Sarah Chalke / Actress

I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.

Sarah Cooper

The laugh track was invented to cue the audience to the jokes and encourage laughter in response. But it has another effect: if you hear people laughing and you're not, you start to question if maybe there's something wrong with you for not getting it.

Stephen Colbert / Satirist

The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There's a lot of supposed tween comedy on TV that isn't particularly funny, but it's got a lot of laugh track. And I go, 'Please don't watch that. Please just watch something that's actually funny.'

Sarah Mcbride

The first time I heard the word 'transgender' had been in a sitcom episode that mocked the potential for cisgender people to find people like me attractive. Every time someone expressed any interest in the gorgeous trans guest character - her identity still a secret to most of the main characters in the show - the laugh track would cue.

Mitchell Hurwitz / Television Writer

Something about not waiting for the laugh of a laugh track allows you to take lines that otherwise might be seen as just direct jokes, and make them seem realistic.

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