"laugh track" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 173",
          "text": "You know where you never see a camcorder? At a funeral. Wouldn't that be fun? Especially if you didn't know any of the people there. Why not go to a stranger's funeral, and bring your camcorder? Have a little fun! Zoom in on the corpse's nose hairs. Then pull back, and pan over to the widow's tears. Get a tight shot of that. Do a montage of people wracked with grief. Then go home and put a laugh track on it! Smoke a joint and show it to your friends. That would be a lot of fun.",
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          "ref": "2004, Robert Kubey, Creating Television",
          "text": "Possibly a show with no laugh track would improve with a well-done laugh track.",
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          "ref": "2012, Ridley Pearson, No Witnesses",
          "text": "He felt it weird to have this discussion with a laugh track running faintly in the background.",
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          "ref": "2013, Allan Neuwirth, They'll Never Put That on the Air: The New Age of TV Comedy",
          "text": "There were shows where they let us not use a laugh track ... and portions of shows. Whenever they were in the O.R. or serious surgery, there was no laugh track.",
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        "The soundtrack of laughter sounds that accompanies a television comedy show"
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          "word": "canned laughter"
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          "word": "laughter track"
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          "word": "laughtrack"
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      "word": "canned laughter"
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      "word": "laughter track"
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