No, it was inserted literally because comedy was going to shit. To be honest even real laughter you can hear is feigned most times. "We record in front of a real audience". Well who fucking cares if they'll laugh at paint drying. How can we triple the time of a crappy series? Laugh tracks with long pauses. Looking at you big bang theory, you piece of shit. The best stuff has 0 laugh prompts, like the horse jumping overboard in the ring. I fucking died laughing when I saw that because it just looked so stupid.