Show uses laughter track = unfunny

[Fullmetalnoob]

Is that true?

Wizards of Waverly Place has a laughter track throughout one of their movies.

A movie.

[Scintillating]

Are you calling Seinfeld unfunny?

[Otto]

Are we talking filmed in front of a live studio audience or something put in afterwards?

Also Fawlty Towers don't fuck wit it

[Sequenced]

yes. that's why shoes without it are more funny because they actually try.

[Tobi]

At 4/2/13 02:29 PM, Scintillating wrote: Are you calling Seinfeld unfunny?

hopefully

[Entice]

I used to love Senfeld

Haven't seen it since I was little though

[HibiscusMallow]

What if the laughter is from a live audience?

[Boomstick]

All live action Disney show uses laugh tracks.

So yes.

[All-American-Badass]

At 4/2/13 03:09 PM, HibiscusMallow wrote: What if the laughter is from a live audience?

They use cues for laughter.

[Scarface]

I'd say 95% of the time, yeah. At the very least, the laugh track devalues the comedy the show has by making it seem like the jokes aren't funny enough on their own.

[Manly-Chicken]

It really depends on a show but it's generally a crutch because you're more likely to laugh if a bunch of other people are laughing.

[Viper]

Whether its live laughter or not if you need to have a cue as to when to laugh thats a pretty good sign that the shows not funny.

[Ceratisa]

Laugh tracks harm pacing, delivery and always have that one person with a very annoying laugh.

[CresIsis]

Laugh tracks are filler to me, nothing more.

If I felt like laughing then I'd laugh, I don't need a cue.

[Chdonga]

If the show's actually performed in front of a live audience it's okay. But that canned laughter track really ruins funny jokes. Especially when the joke is too highbrow for the average audience to immediately get. I'm looking at you, Big Bang Theory.

[CresIsis]

At 4/2/13 04:21 PM, Chdonga wrote: If the show's actually performed in front of a live audience it's okay. But that canned laughter track really ruins funny jokes. Especially when the joke is too highbrow for the average audience to immediately get. I'm looking at you, Big Bang Theory.

Lol, I love the Big Bang Theory, it's one of my guilty pleasures.

[BasedBubbus]

Some older shows are OK with laugh tracks. Threes Company, Good Times.
other than that, that shit can go suck a dick

[Darthdenim]

Nonsense.

How am I supposed to know when to laugh without a laughtrack?

[Darthdenim]

If the show's actually performed in front of a live audience it's okay. But that canned laughter track really ruins funny jokes. Especially when the joke is too highbrow for the average audience to immediately get. I'm looking at you, Big Bang Theory.

I don't know if I'd call anything associated with The Big Bang Theory "highbrow".

[Crink]

At 4/2/13 04:21 PM, Chdonga wrote: If the show's actually performed in front of a live audience it's okay. But that canned laughter track really ruins funny jokes. Especially when the joke is too highbrow for the average audience to immediately get. I'm looking at you, Big Bang Theory.
Big Bang Theory
highbrow

the fuck big bang theory you been watching? one on discovery with stephen hawking or what

[LionzNTiggerz]

It's like Pavlov's dogs, except with laughter instead of saliva!

[Lemonardo]

Bazinga.

[Auz]

I agree that laughter tracks are kind of silly, but most sitcoms do need to resort to it to be at least somewhat entertaining. I've seen a couple of scenes from sitcoms where they edited out the laughter tape and it just becomes very awkward to watch.

At 4/2/13 04:58 PM, Crink wrote:

At 4/2/13 04:21 PM, Chdonga wrote: If the show's actually performed in front of a live audience it's okay. But that canned laughter track really ruins funny jokes. Especially when the joke is too highbrow for the average audience to immediately get. I'm looking at you, Big Bang Theory.
Big Bang Theory
highbrow

the fuck big bang theory you been watching? one on discovery with stephen hawking or what

Well it's not all that highbrow, but I'm sure those nerd culture jokes would go way over my parent's head (to name some people). I think that's what he meant.

[Darthdenim]

I actually have a baseball cap with The Flash on it, but I'm afraid to wear it in public now because people will think I'm trying to imitate the Sheldon look.

Goddamn that show to Hell.

[The-Great-One]

A laugh track isn't always bad. However a live studio audience will always be better. There are cues for laughter at times because of bloopers, but the laughs are still real and people love the joke. If there aren't any bloopers or mistakes in the scene then the laughter is real. Fuck Whose Line Is It Anyway used cues for laughter from their audience!

A sense of humor is subjective, but at the same time there is a lot behind it. Including tone, delivery, pacing. So just bringing up a laugh track or a canned studio audience with cues is not enough to say if something is funny or isn't funny.

[NothingStudios]

I think most people would say this is true

there are some exceptions, of course

[Nor]

Most of them do, meaning they are all unfunny

[Cosmic]

Some shows can pull it off because the jokes are actually funny. I can't stand the Disney ones where there is that one obese motherfucker in the back going AHUUEU HUAUE HUEU

[Ronald-McDonald-LoL]

At 4/2/13 05:20 PM, Lemonardo wrote: Bazinga.

Botswana.

Laugh tracks are a show killer for me. I understand if it was filmed in front of an audience, but inserted laugh tracks are obnoxious and annoy me to no end.

[Jeffyx]

I think shows that don't have them are funnier. Shows with a laughing track put the track on when something isn't even remotely funny sometimes.