So are lots of shows....its still canned laughter
Canned Laughter
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So are lots of shows....its still canned laughter
Indeed, as was Cheers, that also had a canned laughter track.
The first meeting of Mickey and Mallory in "Natural Born Killers" has to be one of the best satires on the american sitcom/laughter track farce.
It has an audience though?
Who are either all mutes, or people who would probably like their money back.
Mock the week has never had canned laughter before 
not seen this new episode yet. I thought the BBC had pretty much banned canned laughter, it's almost entirely from live audiences (but will obviously be faded up and down, and because of the cuts can seem to come/go suddenly)
not seen this new episode yet. I thought the BBC had pretty much banned canned laughter, it's almost entirely from live audiences (but will obviously be faded up and down, and because of the cuts can seem to come/go suddenly)
Often it isn't canned laughter, just horrendous editing. If they kept in all the bits where it's just the audience laughing the program would need to be ten minutes longer. Instead they chop it off and go straight to the next person talking. Happens in a lot of live panel shows.
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Mock the week isn't amazing anyway. Buzzcocks was ok but Bill Bailey gone it is just an insult celeb fest, QI is pretty good but I prefer Brooker to Fry so You have been watching is my new favorite panel show.
ye, that's what i always figured it was. that and people just finding it funnier that it actually is
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Again can be put down to editing to an extent, and that things are just a bit funnier in a live setting, all those "you had to be there moments" you are there, so you laugh, and everyone around you laughing makes people more likely to laugh. Not to mention that you could get the laughter from an unbroadcastable joke tacked onto what was essentially the build up to it, seems to happen a fair bit.
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I cannot STAND Charlie Brooker! He takes smugness to the next level and its really tiresome. He's on a par with Jeremy Kyle with irritating smugness and self importance
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That sounds like bad sound design to me, they film about 2-3 times as much as gets shown so it's probably where it's cut.
I don't like canned laughter. I know when to laugh I don't have to be prompted.
Perhaps in the future TV Programmes will have to have a warning:
"THIS PROGRAMME CONTAINS CANNED LAUGHTER WHICH SOME WATCHERS MIGHT FIND OFFENSIVE"
Yes, I know when to laugh, imagine if the equivalent was used in a book, with a "ha, ha" after each quip! Certainly books like Catch 22 would be half an inch thicker!
Perhaps in the future TV Programmes will have to have a warning:
"THIS PROGRAMME CONTAINS CANNED LAUGHTER WHICH SOME WATCHERS MIGHT FIND OFFENSIVE"
Yes, I know when to laugh, imagine if the equivalent was used in a book, with a "ha, ha" after each quip! Certainly books like Catch 22 would be half an inch thicker!
It depends on the style of show as to whether it should have studio laughter, nothing imo should have actual recorded laughter. Something like mock the week or never mind the buzzcocks where it's essentially panel format stand up comedy works best for most people with a natural level of laughter, as if you're sat in the audience, they seem to have mastered the art a lot better on radio 4 but then again I think those things are much less edited.
QI is awesome, except for the episode(s) where they had the fat, drunken numpty on. You know the one. Fry and the others spent the whole show cringing whenever he opened his mouth.
I can't remember his name because I've blocked it out, along with everything else about him
His only claim to fame is being, fat, drunk, and spouting nonsense in the name of comedy. Should be shot, imho