"You might as well laugh as cry and the tragedy that is the human condition invites sarcasm, invites irony,invites satire, invites laughter.

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I tried to negotiate a laugh track so that if the jokes don't work we can superimpose some laughter.

罐头笑声,《老友记》等喜剧类美剧中常用的笑声录音

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It's also-- a lot of laughter isn't caused by incongruity so a lot of times when we laugh there's nothing incongruous in any deep sense about it.

还有…,很多笑不是因为不一致引起的,很多时候我们笑,并不是因为其中有不一致的现象。

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When you're in a group doing something terribly aggressive and you are not--you don't feel like you're at risk you might laugh and laughter is a signal to other members of your group as a signal of solidarity and what you're doing together.

当你在群体在做具有强烈攻击性的行为时,你不会觉得自己有危险,你会笑,你笑是向其他群体成员传达一个信号,你们团结一致，共同进退。

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