[ SECRET POST #3433 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3433 ⌋

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[(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.