Summary: Ed has been given his own printer so he can stay locked in his office, because of an annoying habit.
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[Kandice] my favorite commercial ever!!!
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[Bill] I wonder why the laugh is different from the original commerical. Could it be it was lifted from the "laughing song" by George W Johnson, one of the first recordings ever.
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[Bill N] It sounds mozartian. Possibly from Don Giovanni?
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[Karen] I looked into the "laughing song" in this commerical, and it's definitely not from Don Giovanni(an opera I know pretty well) and it's not lifted from 'The Laughing Song' by George W Johnson, either. It's most likely a piece of music made expressly for this commercial, made to sound like an opera passage.
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[Bill] Karen - I began to doubt what I had written above until I found this passage from an article about "Lost sounds".
So are the riveting stories of legendary artists George Washington Johnson (the ex-slave whose "Laughing Song" was used briefly in a recent Xerox ad), Bert Williams (featured in PBS' Broadway documentary series), Charley Case (a vaudeville comic who was rumored to be "passing"), and dozens of others.
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Summary: Ed has been given his own printer so he can stay locked in his office, because of an annoying habit.
