It was know as the Laff Box, and it was mocked up - jerry-rigged, almost - by mechancial engineer Charlie Douglass. You've heard it on everything from The Munsters and Gilligan's Island to Cheers and MAS*H, and "[it] could chuckle. It could guffaw. It could laugh with sighed relief. It even had a reel, controlled […]
SOURCE: Slate at 09:54AM on May 4, 2018