Laughter is the cheapest emotional shortcut in sound design and also the easiest to ruin. A canned audience laugh from the wrong era flattens a sitcom timing beat. A genuine giggle, captured close, can carry an entire scene of intimacy without a single line of dialogue. The register matters more than the volume — happy, evil, sarcastic, awkward and demonic all live on different shelves and rarely substitute for each other.
Sound designers will find 141 laughter sound effects spread across those shelves: warm happy giggles, the canned audience swell for sitcom punch-ins, the maniacal evil cackle the villain edit needs, plus sarcastic chuckles and cartoon demonic laughs for animation work. Audience laughter sound effect cues sit alongside more textured solo takes, so you can match the room rather than just the emotion. Free MP3 download, no attribution required.