Google has updated Google+ Hangouts to include sound effects that range from laugh tracks, to chirping. Get ready to be annoyed by constant laughing after jokes, clapping after singing, and plenty of ...

While scientists have thoroughly researched many other human sounds, such as singing and talking, remarkably little is known about the acoustics of laughter. Seeking to rectify this, psychologists ...

Following the mustaches and creepy masks which debuted in Google+ Hangouts over the past year, Google has just added yet another source of entertainment: sound effects. As teased by Google’s own Amit ...

The guy who made the sound effects in the “Police Academy” movies will be in Newport News this weekend. Comedian Michael Winslow – who established his legacy as the only thing worth watching in seven ...

College Park, MD (October 3, 2001)-Humans have many ways to express themselves, but one of the most enjoyable-and mysterious-is laughter. More than a frivolous emotional outburst, laughter has many ...

The history of ‘the laugh track’ says much about what the makers of television thought of their audiences, writes Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. Charley Douglass didn’t like the laughter he was hearing.