Laughing audiences?

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Perhaps a silly question, but I've often wondered where the laughing/clapping comes from on TV shows that aren't filmed in a studio(with an audience)?

For example, I watched Still Game tonight which is filmed at various locations/environments, and is highly unlikely to have had an audience.

So, is it all pre-recorded laughter that they play again and again, at the funny bits? Or, do they play the completed show to a live audience and record their laughter?
 
I'm in two minds about it. I don't really like being "told" when and where to laugh, and there are shows that don't have it. But sometimes it seems to add something to a program as well.

I wish they'd air an episode of friends or frasier without the canned laughter so I could judge better.
 
Some people laugh just because other people laugh and it makes it funnier because other people are laughing - or something. :p
 
If you need to be told when to laugh, then the programme you are watching is not funny enough to carry itself without it. Canned laughter tells me a programme needs better writers.
 
Not all shows that are "not filmed in front of an audience" use canned laughter.
Although I'm not a fan myself, it is well known that episodes of "Last of the Summer Wine" are filmed and then played back to an audience where upon their laughter is taped and added before play back.
You couldn't have a live audience whilst outside in Yorkshire, so adding "live" laughter before the show is aired is the next best thing.
 
Sinque said:
Some people laugh just because other people laugh and it makes it funnier because other people are laughing - or something. :p
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I think it's mostly because a lot of TV comedies are so poor that the canned laughter is there to tell you where the jokes are, otherwise you'd miss most of them.
 
Do The Simpsons or Family Guy need canned laughter?

I think it's a shame that some great shows include it.
 
Possibly on the same theme:

If you've seen the Transformers movie there's a scene near the beginning where you see Frenzy on Air Force one. The first time I saw it I heard a high pitched lady's style laugh from the left of me, and the whole cinema seemed to laugh with it.

I didn't think anything more until I went to see the movie again and heard that very same laugh from the same position of the auditorium. The response was the same; everybody laughing a second after. It sounded really out of place with Frenzy's voice.

Was Michael Bay deliberatly trying to get people to laugh at this decepticon or something? :p
 
Greenlizard0 said:
Possibly on the same theme:

If you've seen the Transformers movie there's a scene near the beginning where you see Frenzy on Air Force one. The first time I saw it I heard a high pitched lady's style laugh from the left of me, and the whole cinema seemed to laugh with it.

I didn't think anything more until I went to see the movie again and heard that very same laugh from the same position of the auditorium.
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OMG! YOU'VE GOT A STALKER!
 
This I one of the reasons I loved Malcolm In The Middle so much. No Canned laughter ever, not that it needed it, I think it's one of the reasons it was so successfull.
 
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