The title was going to be 'out swimming in the flood' but a month before release the tsunami hit, so they changed it to Palanuiks Laughter, because of what he said in one of his books about canned laughter in sitcoms being recorded in the 1920's, so basically its dead people laughing. They thought the idea of dead laughter was pretty cool, personally I think it's a little morbid.
The title was going to be 'out swimming in the flood' but a month before release the tsunami hit, so they changed it to Palanuiks Laughter, because of what he said in one of his books about canned laughter in sitcoms being recorded in the 1920's, so basically its dead people laughing. They thought the idea of dead laughter was pretty cool, personally I think it's a little morbid.