Recorded audience laughter has been added to television comedies since the 1950s, when engineer Charley Douglass developed the Laff Box to sweeten shows filmed without a live crowd. Multi camera sitcoms later recorded real studio audiences, and their big collective laughs became the sound viewers associate with a joke landing. Clips of that canned reaction later spread through meme edits and soundboards, where creators reuse it without any show attached, often alongside the oh no no no laugh for a more mocking reaction.