Hank McCune Show on TV4U.Com Was First to Use A Laugh Track.
There are two interesting items regarding the long forgotten Hank McCune Show.
The first is that it was one of the first efforts in the business by a young lawyer from Iowa named Samuel Arkoff. Arkoff later made his mark on American culture by helming American International Pictures a few years later, bringing us Roger Corman, Annette Funicello & Frankie Avalon, the start for Jack Nicholson and Peter Bogdonovich, and revivals of the careers of Vincent Price and Boris Karloff.
His first mark on the culture was equally impressive. He saw that the dreadful Hank McCune Show was far from funny, so he dubbed in a laugh track to 'help' the audience know when to laugh. Viola! The laugh track was born!
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