You aren’t necessarily wrong. Have you ever seen Friends without a laugh track?
Holy shit, this is much better than the original!!! Damn, I should rewatch the series like this. Where can I find all of it without the laugh track?
Edit: I have to add, the long pauses make it a bit annoying. With the laugh track the pauses aren’t noticeable (to me at least; my girlfriend did notice the long pauses even with the laugh track, and it was annoying to her).
There was a great take on one of these called “Everybody Hates Raymond”
It was the show Everybody Loves Ramon but the laugh track was completely replaced with boos and was frickin hilarious. I think it got removed from YouTube though cuz I haven’t been able to find it for years.
Friends without a laugh track is 1000% funnier.
Especially Ross…who becomes basically a serial killer vibe.
In The Big Bang Theory without the laugh track, Raj becomes just a huuuuuuge asshole.
laughing has been show to be a social activity which is why almost all comedies have a fake or real audience
I’m talking about laugh tracks. They are fake. The sound of laughter is homogenous. If you listen to a real audience, some people laugh louder, some softer. Also with laugh tracks, you can tell someone is turning a volume knob or slider on a mixer. It’s all fake.
I feel like laugh tracks are way to manipulate the audience. The reason they have to manipulate the audience is the joke wasn’t all that funny. If you don’t have a laugh track or a live audience then you have to actually be funny. Your jokes actually have to make people laugh in an organic way.
Laugh tracks are awful. So are shows where the live audience has people screaming “Whoooooo!!!” whenever their favorite actor enters the scene. Married With Children being one example. Jerry Seinfeld calls it “the sound of dumbness”.
Tbf it’s more that the feel of a live audience would be missing otherwise. They wanted that live audience feel and be a fully written TV series.
I guess to some degree it’s not completely wrong tho.
It’s just a passing shower thought
I personally enjoyed (didn’t enjoy) this one.
Some of those jokes were actually amusing. I don’t know why they didn’t have a real audience. Most people will come for free just to watch the show.
real people are unpredictable.
Since real people are watching that would be a good thing.
There’s a show called Kevin Can Fuck Himself that uses a laugh track to bias the audience in favor of certain characters.
That show is some of the most genius content of the last decade.
Your description way undersells it.
Kevin Can Fuck Himself is about a woman who wants to kill her husband Kevin because she thinks it’s the only way she’ll ever get it of her marriage.
Whenever Kevin is in the room it’s lit and filmed like a multi camera sitcom. He says and does horrible things to his wife and the laugh track runs. It’s a really scathing criticism of how sitcom wives are treated.
But the real genius comes when Kevin and his friends are out of the room. Suddenly it becomes lit and shot as a single camera drama. I absolutely love it. It’s so effective.
My comment was absolutely an understatement to generate curiosity. I do agree that Kevin Can Fuck Himself is a hidden gem. I’ve read that some people were saying the sitcom element takes them out of moment, but I fear they’re robbing themselves from a great experience by not continuing.
Never heard of it. I definitely have to look that up.
