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A Couple Yards Of Laughter. Please CHUCKLES ARE TAILOR-MADE FOR TELEVISION FILM SHOWS Audience laughter is snared on sound track, right, for some shows. Have you ever sat at home wonder¬ ing what’s so funny about a television show? You hear laughter—great gobs of it, little trills of it, polite fits of it—and there you sit, giving forth from time to time with, at most, a chuckle. How do all those laughs get there? There means on the filmed comedy situation shows, 22 of which can be seen on the networks each week. To start at the beginning, sponsors feel that if the home viewer hears gales of laughter, he’ll think the show is funny—even if it isn’t. So, to as¬ sure an adequate supply of laughs, producers have adopted a number of pat, but honest, procedures. Fourteen of the shows are filmed without anybody laughing at the jokes. These films are run off before an audience of studio enthusiasts who, thrilled at previewing a coast-to- coast TV show and usually “warmed up” by a pre-show session with the star himself, laugh uproariously. Their laughs are recorded and printed on the film’s sound track. This method is considered practical and economical. Yet six of the 22 shows use another system. These six (Make Room for Daddy, December Bride, I Love Lucy, Our Miss Brooks, Willy and The Ray Bolger Show) set a cunning trap for laughter. They invite audiences into the studio to observe the actual filming, then grab off the laughs. This maneuver, in the opinion of Danny Thomas, gives the laughter a “warmer” character. There is also a third technique available. It has been banned by one 10