What if the show had a laugh track?

"Laugh tracks are a myth. The laughs you heard on many classic shows were real laughs from the audience."

(Followed immediately by loud laugh-track guffaw.)

Sure, they were real laughs from an audience, but not necessarily the audience that was present at the filming or taping of that show, if there was an audience there at all. Pre-recorded audience laughter has been used since Bing Crosby's radio show of the late 1940s. Almost all television situation comedies of the 1950s through the 2010s have used pre-recorded laughter either to enhance live audience reaction, or to create it artificially in shows that were not recorded with an audience. In 1953, television sound engineer Charles Douglass invented a special playback machine that made it convenient to inject different types of laughter and other vocal reactions into the soundtracks of sitcoms.