Aug 203 min read

The Classic Laugh Bag (1968) Laugh Sack

Updated: 17 hours ago

We often get emails from people seeking the original Laugh Bag Novelty Item, which we

had not planned to sell here at at Californiamagic.net.

Even though this classic item is still available for purchase on the internet.. Today's versions however are usually smaller, and use digital audio technology. The reason we had not

planned to sell it here was because of the laugh track as you will discover in this blog.

The original toy was originally sold under several different names such as Laugh Bag, Laughing Bag, Bag of Laughs, and Bag of Joys. It had a battery-operated record player inside of a drawstring pouch. The record could even be turned over to play a female laugh

on the flipside of the disc.

Unfortunately, the Laugh Bag quality today is nowhere near the product it once used to be and most everyone who remembers the original version, usually ends up being very disappointed in the product when they receive it. If you go to Amazon and type in "Laugh Bag" you can read the comments for yourself, no matter who is selling them, the disappointment is always the same.

For anyone who has never experienced the original laugh bag and purchased it on Amazon..

They are probably among the people who account for the 32% of customers who gave the product a 5-star rating. People who remember the original laugh were sorely disappointed.

So why were so many people disappointed? Because around 25 years ago when they started to make them in a digital version.... They edited the original Laugh Track!

Laugh Bag Inventor Walter Thiele

The original name for this product was "Laugh Sack" named by the German inventor Walter Thiele in 1968. It was the most successful of about 1,600 items he invented.

Original Laugh Sack

Thiele developed the concept by staging a laughing contest and using a recording of the winner's laughter in the redesigned Laugh sack in which a sock was replaced by a small sack.

The winner, a tax inspector from Nuremberg, was offered a prize of either 1,000 Marks or a 10 Pfennig royalty per Laugh sack sold. He played safe and chose the lump sum.

An estimated 120 million had been sold by 2007 (39 years later) and the Laugh sack is still in production.

Sadly.. today's Laugh sacks only give the first two seconds of the original laugh... which simply repeats three times.. for a total of six seconds. The original recording was 20 seconds.

Not only do you not get to hear the original Laugh Contest laugh in it's entirety, but you only get six seconds of laughter instead of the original 20 second track. We agree, it is disappointing.. And somebody should do something about this.

With today's technology, you think it would be possible to record a digital laugh for 20 seconds. Here at Californiamagic.net we wont sell items that will disappoint you, sorry we just don't just want to sell you crap in a box. (unless that is what you ordered) Lol

The original record player had an adjustment to speed up or slow down the recording, a far cry from today's digital models. Today's audio models don't offer that feature.

Californiamagic has made the decision to do something about this situation and reintroduce the Laugh Bag with the original Laugh Recording in its entirety, the way the original inventor would have wanted it.

Because... The world needs Laughter now more than ever.

This is what Everyone else is selling in their Laugh Bags

If you never heard the original laugh track you can hear it on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIUg56-tvaw