Poll: Do you like canned laughter?
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She likes it more than I do, now that she's finally finished her first full 11 season viewing... she's starting all over again.mojojowjow2007 said:
It's also fair to describe her as a Father Mulcahy fangirl.
Really, I love canned laughter. If the show is so bad that I quit paying attention, the canned laughter keeps me laughing at the right moments. The worse the show, the more valuable the canned laughter.
Allow me to not be sarcastic for a second though- I would like to be the guy who inserts the canned laughter. I'd pick times where nothing was really going on, and during the funny parts...silence.
Allow me to not be sarcastic for a second though- I would like to be the guy who inserts the canned laughter. I'd pick times where nothing was really going on, and during the funny parts...silence.
This, by the way, some shows would be VERY dull without it, it kinda makes mediocre shows a bit more funny. However the actually fun shows would be gay with it.Bofus Teefus said:
I hate it completely and utterly, if I didn't laugh at something the first time, playing back a laugh-track won't suddenly make me think "Oh yeah that actually was funny".
If you need to inform the audience when you make a joke, it's obviously not a good one, that said "Frasier" uses it and that show's funny as hell, I can only assume they thought it was too awesome and decided to use the canned laughter to ballance out the universe.
If you need to inform the audience when you make a joke, it's obviously not a good one, that said "Frasier" uses it and that show's funny as hell, I can only assume they thought it was too awesome and decided to use the canned laughter to ballance out the universe.
It smells of American cheesy TV, I mean the target audience for these programs must be pretty stupid if they have to be told which parts are funny and when they should laugh.
I don't mind it too much. However, I know that I would laugh a lot more if the comedic scenes sequenced without those breaks in between jokes.
I dislike canned laughter. Or frozen. I much prefer fresh laughter.
Canned laughter creeps me out. It's like ghosts are laughing or something.
Canned laughter creeps me out. It's like ghosts are laughing or something.
Right? Why don't they just flash the words "LAUGH HERE" in red on the screen while playing the laugh track? I forgive shows that are filmed in front of an audience - obviously there is going to be some laughter there. To me, with a lot of the shows that use the laughing, it's like there's a pause for a moment to let the joke sink in - and for those of you that didn't think it was funny, "OH LOOK! Everyone else thought that was funny! This is some funny stuff!" Yeah, no... doesn't really work for me.SchnorriS said:
I love The Office - the whole thing is filmed sort of like a documentary or something, so when the characters look at the camera and Jim gives his little smug/confused look - it's funny to me. I don't need to hear laughter when he does that so I feel like someone else thought it was funny too.
The Simpsons mention above - Indeed, so true! There are so many moments in that show when I have laughed my ass off over things that others didn't find particularly funny. An example of one of my favorites is the Peruvian Fighting Frogs; how could you add a laugh track to that?
I think canned laughter is on its way out. The one show to really suffer from it was I'm Alan Partridge. It was a perfect single camera sitcom following a dysfunctional middle aged man, the humour in it was just priceless. No way would it have had a laugh track if it was made now, but this was 1997 I suppose.
I hate canned laughter. It's like the show is saying "Hey you're supposed to laugh at this. EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING IT SO YOU SHOULD TO".