[ SECRET POST #3433 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3433 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Why else would they put it in? It serves no other purpose than to suggest "laugh here, this part is supposed to be funny". You don't need to have it in a comedy show at all.

[(Anonymous)]

Because there's a rhythm to comedy that develops when performers are playing off an audience, and because people watching feel more connected when a laugh track exists, and because (scientifically) people watching laugh harder when there's a laugh track - not because they don't know where to laugh, but because humans are social beings and we just laugh harder when other people are laughing too.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, so it's a crutch for shitty comedy then. I've laughed just as hard - or harder - during shows that don't have one, and what you've said supports the notion that those are objectively better shows, because they don't need to enhance the effect with a laugh track

[(Anonymous)]

It enhances a good show just as much as a bad show. It's not just a crutch for shitty comedy. If you find single-cams with no laugh tracks funnier, that's fine, I'm not trying to convince you of that.

[(Anonymous)]

Watch a good comedy show filmed without a laugh track, then watch an episode of BBT with the laugh track taken out. Enough said.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a stupid post, for two reasons.

One, you're artificially handicapping BBT by just eliminating the laugh track. Its sound and acting are cut around the idea of a laugh track. You would need to re-edit it to make it fair.

Two, of fucking course any good show is going to look better than BBT. Whether or not BBT has a laugh track. Because BBT is a bad fucking sitcom, for reasons totally unrelated to its laugh track. It's bad either way. The question isn't whether BBT is a bad show, it's whether shows like Newsradio and Seinfeld are worse because of their laugh tracks. And I don't think they are.

[sarillia]

Personally I like when you can pick out a few people with distinctive laughs who really seem to be enjoying themselves. I just like when people are happy. I don't really care if the purpose is to put up an audial "laugh" sign because that's not how it affects me.

But then I'm not someone who reacts to a lot of things with "don't tell me what to do" which is the sense I get of some of the people who make this argument.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly how I feel. I can understand people finding laugh tracks annoying to listen to, perhaps, or if someone in the crowd has a particularly over the top laugh, sure, that could be grating.

But the whole "being told when to laugh" argument's never made sense to me, either.