Do you prefer sitcoms with audience laughter or no?

[Gough]

I meant that Black Books was the most recent example of a great show with a laugh track that I could remember

Pardon me boy is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?

 

[perthblue]

Pardon me boy is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?

Oh Eamonn, Danny dear,
I miss the Galway Bay,
And I'll sing for all I got!
With a riddle-diddle Dublin,
And a riddle-diddle Donegal,
The English are all bollocks!!!

 

[Gough]

 

[DroopStDanny]

Oh Eamonn, Danny dear,
I miss the Galway Bay,
And I'll sing for all I got!
With a riddle-diddle Dublin,
And a riddle-diddle Donegal,
The English are all bollocks!!!

Well, when you said you were going to write a poem in that other thread, I didn't expect to have to go searching for the bastard thing in all your other threads.

 

[William Wonka]

I prefer dark humour

If so and the words 'Nighty night' dont mean anything to you yet then you are in for an absolute treat.

 

[perthblue]

Well, when you said you were going to write a poem in that other thread, I didn't expect to have to go searching for the bastard thing in all your other threads.

Oh the songs of the old country, Danny, oh the songs, they’d melt your face

 

[DroopStDanny]

I like Irish folk music.

 

[Demosthenes]

"Laugh track sitcoms are cool. Here's some examples from decades ago."

That's like saying grunge music is bad because all the good bands are from the early '90s.

The best artists in any medium always gravitate towards to the most fashionable format.

 

[HairyO]

I dont need to be told when something is funny.

 

[00Stinger]

If they added anything iseful, wouldn't comedy movies use them?

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[Rotayjay]

Friends was usually filmed in front of a live audience though

 

[Beerfish]

Friends was usually filmed in front of a live audience though

Which is even scarier. They certainly had those audiences well trained.

 

[perthblue]

Friends was usually filmed in front of a live audience though

It was always filmed before a studio audience. Most of these shows don't actually use 'canned laughter' but they certainly do toy around with it.

If they added anything iseful, wouldn't comedy movies use them?

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Different medium. Here's an article that I think explores some interesting ideas with this topic:

'If you don't film a sitcom in front of an audience, it's probably because you don't think it's funny enough'

http://www.chortle.co.uk/features/2...bably_because_you_dont_think_its_funny_enough

‘If you're going to write comedy, get immediate feedback. Play it in front of an audience. I often think that usually a comedy doesn't have an audience because a writer's frightened that it's not funny.

‘What has happened with comedy on TV is that you are seen to be respectable if you can make it like a movie; and you're seen to be perverse if you want to make it like theatre. And yet I think that television comedy is a theatrical experience, not a filmic experience.’

Gran said there was a misplaced ‘snobbery’ behind studio sitcoms falling out of fashion, saying they were ‘disparaged by all those people who don't remember Yes, Minister was made in front of a studio audience because they were laughing too, so they convinced themselves there was no studio audience.

 

[Cuzz09]

I loved Seinfeld how every now and then you could hear 1 bloke who got the joke earlier than everyone else and was like HA!! then the rest would laugh... sometimes that was funnier than the scene

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[perthblue]

I loved Seinfeld how every now and then you could hear 1 bloke who got the joke earlier than everyone else and was like HA!! then the rest would laugh... sometimes that was funnier than the scene

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That bloke was probably employed by the studio to 'lead' the laughter. Most of these studio audiences are not just random members of the public, or fans of the show, but actors employed by the studio.

I read a story once about Fran Drescher. Her house was broken into, and she was assaulted and r*ped. When it came time to record The Nanny, she felt uneasy about being in front of that many strangers, so they filled the audience with actors/extras. And from then on 'professional audiences' became a common thing.

 

[raskolnikov]

I prefer not to watch sitcoms. The only sitcom I've ever really been into is Frasier.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

The problem with no-laugh-track videos is the actors are obviously directed to pause to allow a laugh track to play. Remove that laugh-track and the dialog doesn't flow and you have people sitting/standing awkwardly every pause.

I read once writers only write for two thirds of the time to make space for it. So if an episode is 21 minutes long the script is only 14 minutes long.

 

[rippersnipper]

I like friends, well the earlier seasons anyway. Kind of went to shit after season 3 imo. The laughter is irritating though. Watching frasier right now and it is funny enough with the laughter. Seinfeld is also okay.

My favourites are those without laughter though; Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Inbetweeners, Peep Show.

Can confirm that I definitely don't watch My Kitchen Rules though.

 

[Agent93]

I read once writers only write for two thirds of the time to make space for it. So if an episode is 21 minutes long the script is only 14 minutes long.

So for 30 minutes of airtime, you're getting 30% advertisements, 20% canned laughter, and 50% actual show. And they wonder why folks torrent and flock to Netflix.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

I tried to watch my housemate's Yes, Minister DVDs once. I'm not sure if the TV was ****ed but the laugh track audio was so painful I couldn't continue. I'd turn it up to hear the characters (mumbling English people) then HAHUAHAHAHHAHGAHAAHHAHAHAHAAHGA thundered out after each joke.

 

[Firestarter]

I loved Seinfeld how every now and then you could hear 1 bloke who got the joke earlier than everyone else and was like HA!! then the rest would laugh... sometimes that was funnier than the scene

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I do that when watching standup. Sometimes you can see the punchline coming so you genuinely react before they finish it

 

[FootyJunkie]

No, I don't need to be taught when to laugh

 

[Seeds]

Someone showed me a clip of a BBT joke with the laughter removed. It feels so awkward to watch the pause.

someone showed me real life with the laugher removed. it looks just as awkward.

 

[Seeds]

No, I don't need to be taught when to laugh

its not about being taught. its about stimulating our mirror neurons. We experience what we perceive others to be experiencing. We genuinly find things funnier when others are laughing. The goal of comedies is to make us laugh.

 

[radiojake]

The people who liked Friends now watch My Kitchen Rules.

and The Block


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Was up visiting my Mum's the other month and ended up watching a bit of daytime TV because there wasn't much to do - an old episode of Becker was on and it struck me how weird the studio audience laughter sitcom had become to me because I don't watch any shows like that. I remember watching Becker when I was a kid but don't remember it being that bad. Also the subject of this particular episode was awful - an old college friend of Becker's had a 'sex change' and came to visit him, but she neglected to tell Becker who she really was

So obviously lots of terrible 'transvestite/trans' jokes, an absolutely deplorable decision by the woman to build up a relationship with Becker without telling him who she really was, and a whole lot of shit laughter behind it all - I mean, the subject manner would be closer to 'sad' than 'funny'

It was just amazing how dated the whole 30 min package really was -