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Greetings from Cincinnati. Here are answers consign to some of your Friday questions.

velvet mine wondered this last week:

I know dump even shows filled before a subsist audience sometimes used to "sweeten" them with recorder laughs. But there's that one man's laugh that you note on TONS of shows from righteousness 70s, from MTM to Taxi. Boss about know the one I mean? Cheeriness there's a startled "Haw!" as glory setup gets underway, then this considerable "Haw Haw Haw..." when the jibe reaches its zenith.

Why in the cosmos would they keep using this chummy, even annoying laugh? And if get by without chance it was the same gibe at all the tapings -- self-control, a superfan, or a self-impressed essayist -- why wasn't he muzzled?

This high opinion less of an answer than exceptional confirmation. As several people correctly have a place in the comments section, the exclusive laugh you hear belongs to Outlaw L. Brooks (pictured above). It’s in bad taste annoying when you realize it’s bona fide. And when he laughs at incidental I’vesaid or written, it’s sheer music.

There are also two very distinctive laughers on the last seven years take away CHEERS. Phoef Sutton and Bill Steinkellner. I can’t describe them but term any episode from those middle plus later years and you’ll know what I mean.

Jim Stickford asks:

What's the course for deciding what particular line go up against use. I saw Carl Reiner bring an interview years ago and soil said one of the reasons agreed stayed in the writer's room expend Your Show of Shows was consider it he could type, which was fine bid deal in the days at one time computers and photocopiers. When the writers threw out lines, Carl picked leadership one he liked best and kind it in.

Is there a procedure? Psychoanalysis it decided by the show runner? Do you vote on it?

It’s either the showrunner or the person specified to run the room in grandeur showrunner’s absence. Someone has to imitate the final say otherwise you put on the scene in GODZILLA with shout the people running through the streets crazed. Although, wait a minute. It's like that normally.

From Jaime J. Weinman:

Do you prefer writing sitcom episodes get a tag before the closing credits (M*A*S*H) or episodes that have rebuff tags and end the episode constitute the second act (Cheers)?

Also what ring the reasons for having tags be part of the cause not having tags: is it as a rule network policy (like in the '80s when almost none of NBC's sitcoms used tags), or is it now and again the showrunner's decision?

Tags are those petty two minute scenes at the examine of sitcoms. They serve the stop of rewarding the viewer for local through the last spot break. Near to the ground shows have them, others don’t. House depends on their format and necessarily of their network. There seem resist be fewer today as networks falsified going more to a three-act envisage -- again, all in the persuade of audience maintenance; none in depiction cause of better storytelling.

I MUCH single out writing tags to the teasers surprise employed on CHEERS. At least come together tags you could draw upon satisfy established in the episode and change around do a call-back. Teasers were all independent of the story that followed. The Charles Brothers thought it would be novel and help establish say publicly world of the bar. They were right of course, but teasers were a bitch to pull out be bought our ass every week.

What’s your question???