Laff

Mind you a couple of our hours were spent on the patio of The Laff, which is not exactly a posh restaurant, but it is right in the heart of the allegedly rotting core.

Field trip to Ottawa’s rotting core « knitnut.net 2007

I had to take the Laff-a-Lympics DVD off the shelf and show my wife what is was all about.

Brian from Family Guy as Muttley - The Retroist 2010

Wally was a regular on Laff-A-Lympics, and the original cartoons occasionally pop up on Boomerang — unfortunately as unscheduled “time-fillers” between shows.

Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume 2 and 1970s Volume 2 » DVDs Worth Watching 2009

Next week: Look both ways, or Laff Offal, or Trope Report

Week 889: Tour de Fours neologism contest: Make up a word containing the block of letters P, O, L and E The Empress 2010

Laff: back then they could hardly give the seats away ... today it looks like it'd cost over $300 per.

Your Right Hand Thief 2008

Laff at teh lyon den git en teh kar wiffa kwickniss

U mite wanna refink ur - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

Ron Rosenbaum1 wrote a story for Esquire in the 1970s titled “Inside the Canned Laughter War” that chronicled attempts by Ralph Waldo Emerson III2 to sell American TV networks on a new laughter device that was intended to usurp the original “Laff Box” designed by Charlie Douglass for the early fifties program The Hank McCune Show.

“Ha ha,” he said. “Ha ha.” Chuck Klosterman 2009

During the height of the Laff Box Era (the 1970s), lots of TV critics railed against the use of canned laughter, so much so that TV shows began making a concerted effort to always mention that they were taped in front of a live audience (although even those live tapings were almost always mechanically sweetened).

“Ha ha,” he said. “Ha ha.” Chuck Klosterman 2009

Ron Rosenbaum1 wrote a story for Esquire in the 1970s titled “Inside the Canned Laughter War” that chronicled attempts by Ralph Waldo Emerson III2 to sell American TV networks on a new laughter device that was intended to usurp the original “Laff Box” designed by Charlie Douglass for the early fifties program The Hank McCune Show.

“Ha ha,” he said. “Ha ha.” Chuck Klosterman 2009

During the height of the Laff Box Era (the 1970s), lots of TV critics railed against the use of canned laughter, so much so that TV shows began making a concerted effort to always mention that they were taped in front of a live audience (although even those live tapings were almost always mechanically sweetened).

“Ha ha,” he said. “Ha ha.” Chuck Klosterman 2009