I Love to Laugh Mr. Wigg, is said to float because of an excess of "laughing gas", although it is clear that the term is not used in the chemical sense. So-called "laughing gas" (nitrous oxide) was one of the earliest effective anaesthetics developed in the Nineteenth century. it was popularised by dentists, for pain-free tooth extractions, as well as by showground novelty booths. Customers at the booth would be gassed and, as they were recovering from the drugged sleep they often felt euphoric and giggly. Hence the name. A famous 1931 British comedy sketch starring Cicely Courtneidge, called "Laughing Gas", was based on
Laughing Sinners films ended and he wound up demoted to cowboy B pictures, with his name changed to "Johnny Mack Brown." Crawford and Rambeau, who both play chorus girls in "Laughing Sinners, "would go on to play mother and daughter in the film "Torch Song" in 1953. "Torch Song" is the name of the play on which "Laughing Sinners" is based. Andre Sennwald commented in "The New York Times", "Miss Crawford...has tempered the intense and not a little self-conscious quality of her acting without hurting her vibrant and breath-catching spirit." According to MGM records the film earned $624,000 in the US and