We’ve been living in the “clapter”-instead-of-laughter years. To hear studio audiences doing clapter, turn on the Steve Colbert Show. It’s an amalgam of clapping and laughter—a very few real belly laughs, no “I’m falling out of my chair” stuff, maybe a forced chuckle here and there, but mostly approving clapping.
Clapter, in other words, is a social r…
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