thought of the day 2009 10 08 - TV in foreign countries

I'm here in Germany for a week and I'm watching some TV. It's actually kind of funny because I'm watching Comedy Central but its all dubbed into German. So I'm watching South Park dubbed into German. Now if you've seen the South Park episode where Cartman dresses up like a Nazi, yeah, that, dubbed into German. Nice. Also, Hogan's Heroes dubbed into German. That in it's own right is something of a mind fuck.

But they've also got other normal sitcoms and stuff and the laughs happen at the same place so I wonder if they also have to dub the laugh tracks. Is there a difference between a German laugh and an American one?