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Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.

I have always liked shows that have laughter in them.

So many shows don't have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.

In point of fact, I'm not sure there are too many comedies with laugh tracks anymore. Most of what you hear is live studio audience laughing as a show is filmed. If this prompts you to wonder who those actual human beings are who are laughing at some of this stuff, that is a mystification I share.

We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on.

So the laughs had to come from the character, not because we had balloons in our shirts or were speaking in high voices. That was very important to us.

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.

When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television.