From TV punchlines to political institutions, the name Harvard reverberated across the canyons of culture with an infinite echo.

从电视节目到政坛，" 哈佛" 这个名字响彻在文化之巅，回响不绝于耳。

So they rallied up a group of stagehands to watch their show and laugh at their gags and punchlines.

于是他们召集了一群舞台工作人员来观看他们的表演，并为他们的笑料和妙语而开怀大笑。

It kind of has two punchlines.

它有两条妙语。

But here there's one set-up, and three punchlines.

但这里有一个设置和三个笑点。

30 years, 50 setups a year, three to six punchlines.

所以：30 年，每年 50 个场景，三到六个妙语。

But it's struggling to make those punchlines actually funny, actually work as jokes.

但它正在努力让这些妙语真正变得有趣，真正发挥作用。

So, they're - it's like what you might call a punchline or two punchlines which completes the poem.

所以，它们是——就像你所说的一个妙语或两个妙语来完成这首诗。

So today I want to dive into where this weird sound effect comes from, why it emerged, and why it's still punctuating punchlines in comedy shows today.

所以今天我想深入探讨一下这种奇怪的声音效果是从哪里来的，为什么会出现，为什么它仍然会在今天的喜剧节目中成为笑料。

Virgil Prins, who speaks English, Afrikaans and Xhosa, notes that whites are impatient for punchlines; black audiences enjoy the journey as much as the destination.

维吉尔·普林斯 (Virgil Prins) 会说英语、南非荷兰语和科萨语，他指出白人对妙语不耐烦。黑人观众和目的地一样享受旅程。

Sidekicks are one of the most common and direct ways to do this: they can supply sneakily perceptive commentary on the main action, often while simultaneously serving as blundering, hapless punchlines.

他们除了能悄悄地针对主要行动提供精明的评论，同时又扮演粗笨、倒楣的点睛之笔。

Their mad vocal skills have let them co-host TED Talks, sing in heavy metal bands, and made them the pet of choice to deliver punchlines in pirate movies.

他们疯狂的声乐技巧让他们共同主持了 TED 演讲， 在重金属乐队中演唱，并使他们成为在盗版电影中提供妙语的首选宠物。

According to Giotta, the laugh track wasn't originally about papering over terrible jokes and missed punchlines, but rather a way to control the unpredictable responses of studio audiences that were a hold over from radio broadcast days.

据 Giotta 说，笑声音轨最初并不是为了掩盖低俗的笑话和防止错过笑点，而是一种控制演播室观众不可预测的反应的方式，就像在播出广播节目的日子里一样。

Don't ramble because if a story is amazing in two minutes but boring in five minutes, you have to keep it tight — hit your spots, hit your punchlines, get your highs and lows then be finished.

不要漫无边际，因为如果一个故事在两分钟内就很棒，但在五分钟内就很无聊，那么你必须保持紧张——抓住你的位置，抓住你的妙语，找到你的高潮和低谷，然后完成。