The concept did not require recorded sound. Like why put in a source if nobody is going to use it, especially when it’s the one named for the Today I Learned community?
Nero had people sit in the audience and purposefully laugh and do other reactions on cue. He was the first to do this as a routine, which turned into the practice we know today. Maybe it’s the use of the word “track”; I did not mean the device.
You can call that planted actors or audience participation. Which were things that were probably done long before him. But it’s not the same as a laugh track, which is a specific thing.
He invented the concept.
No, he didn’t do that either. He had no concept of the possibility of recorded sound. Don’t get your history information from YouTube videos.
The concept did not require recorded sound. Like why put in a source if nobody is going to use it, especially when it’s the one named for the Today I Learned community?
How exactly would you invent the laugh track if you didn’t understand the concept of recorded sound since it literally requires recorded sound?
This is like saying the Mayans came up with the car despite not understanding the wheel.
Nero had people sit in the audience and purposefully laugh and do other reactions on cue. He was the first to do this as a routine, which turned into the practice we know today. Maybe it’s the use of the word “track”; I did not mean the device.
You can call that planted actors or audience participation. Which were things that were probably done long before him. But it’s not the same as a laugh track, which is a specific thing.