“These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby
Source: Lullaby
“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, book Lullaby
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Context: The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
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