DO WE HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE “PROFESSIONAL LAUGHERS”?

The humor stakes in Los Angeles are so high that live-audience sitcoms are turning to laughter ringers, folks planted in the audience to get everyone else cackling at the right moment. We got to audition with the woman who started it all. Did our guffaws make the cut?

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THE NSFW VENN DIAGRAMS WE COULDN’T SHOW YOU AT WIRED.COM

To explore alcohol and humor creation, we ran an experiment involving some of New York’s top advertising creatives, a hypothetical marketing campaign, and lots of booze. Many of the results are so racy we couldn’t post them at Wired -- but that doesn’t mean we can’t publish them here.

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