Consider the following.
Laugh track is not an attempt to give you cues on when to laugh, it is there to simulate a theatric experience. You can't have a theatric sitcom without a laugh track (or live audience) without losing that sense of community, which is essential to the experience. Furthermore, some of the best and highest rated sitcoms use it. You can't recreate an authentic sitcom experience without a laughing track.
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*canned laughter*
So it's a feature that should exist simply because it's been used up 'till now by similar shows, with no added benefit other than "it's a sitcom thing"?
Theatric performance is not the same thing as movie performance. You simply can't have the same sitcom, or even the same kind of acting, if you omit laughter and audience responses
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It's not canned if it's a live studio audience.
it's also edited in to fill empty air when a joke doesn't get laughs which is most of the time
Curb doesn't have a laugh-track and does just fine by it.
Imagine being the guy who wrote this
*live studio audience erupts in hearty laughter*
it makes sense in Seinfeld because it's about a comedian and they edited actual laughter together. I usually hate laugh tracks though.
I'd murder your family to get a Roseanne cut without the laugh track. That show had immaculate writing and delivery.
Laugh tracks are absolute shit. The IT Crowd would have been world class if not for the stupid fucking laugh track
Malcolm in the middle exists ya turdtrader
why wouldn't I want to laugh out loud alone just on my own?
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Laugh tracks? Yikes, those are just comedic jump scares!
Laugh tracks are there as a sort of beat in-between jokes, it wouldn't feel natural with silence instead.
sounds like a way to pad the run time
it is but jokes also need timing. if they unloaded one after another it wouldn't feel right.
Consider the following.
even though you are somewhat correct, you still can't deny that laugh tracks are now used as a crutch for what would otherwise be unfunny and shitty programs.
Some sitcoms get it wrong though, way too over the top and clearly reused edited laughter patched on to the end of bad jokes.
Tried watching an episode of 3rd Rock From the Sun the other day but the hooting, clapping, hysteric laughter at innocuous quips, was too much
3rd rock is pretty damn solid
>Laugh track is not an attempt to give you cues on when to laugh, it is there to simulate a theatric experience
Wrong. They're written into the script deliberately because actors have to know when to pause, it's a cue. Your entire argument stems from a false premise, laugh tracks are for stupid people. Ever hear that Steven Wright joke about wind chimes?
>[Applaud sign]
>*laugh track*
watch Malcolm in the Middle. it came out in the 2000s and it never used them, yet you knew which lines were jokes and which weren't.
I admit it's cheesy most of the time but some jokes in it are really clever and overall it has a clever plot and interesting storylines
People who need laugh tracks are sheep that only laugh because the rest of the herd is laughing.
Because they would use music and sound cues. People seem to hate laugh tracks because its a trick but all editing is a trick, and single camera shows use plenty of tricks to make you know its time to laugh
What are you talking about? This is Big Bang Theory tier humor.
But it's comfy
so i still hate laugh tracks
if those options are available why didn't they use them? why did they have to insert artificial laughter?
you're not convincing me that laugh tracks are good, you're only confirming that they're unnecessary
t. sheep
>it is there to simulate a theatric experience
No shit. Film and tv has always played to a theater backdrop. The earliest moving pictures made were just recorded vaudeville acts people could watch in a bar.
It isn't. Watch something that isn't seinfeld.
Always Sunny blows your retarded ass out of the water. Please kill yourself as soon as possible.
Who said anything about needing them? The issue is people not seeing their purpose and think of them only as a crutch.
They can and are used as a crutch but in intimate shows attempting a theatrical atmosphere, a reactive audience is important.
Okay. Always Sunny does not use music or sound cues.
You need to be fucking killed.
>equating 3rd rock from the sun with bbt
Jesus christ
BBT is the lowest possible tier, except for the first season which is actually remarkably decent
While 3rd rock from the sun is in my top 5 sitcoms probably
I can't even imagine being this pretentious. Please don't ever share your opinions on any subject ever again.
I've never laughed at these supposed "cues".
The funniest I ever laughed at Seinfeld, for instance, was one of the bloopers involving Kramer telling Jerry not to look at him and Jerry not being able to keep from laughing.
Then again, I don't really find sitcoms to be funny, I tend to enjoy the plots.
Because its usually not, or at least wasn't always artificial laughter.
But stuff like All In The Family and Cheers are enhanced by the audience reactions. At a certain point they started really editing more in shows to fluff it up, but it serves a purpose to the atmosphere. They can be used as tricks and as a crutch, but are not exclusively used that way.
3rd rock from the sun shouldn’t be in anyone’s top 5
they are exclusively used that way
you're just someone who likes the show and wants to defend it despite being wrong. are you a woman? it would be worse if you weren't a woman.
It's in mine
1. Seinfeld
2. Seinfeld because it's that fucking good
3. Allo' Allo'
4. Only fools and horses
5. 3rd rock from the sun
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Editing cues
How is it pretentious, brainlet? Sitcoms with audience reactions can be great
Shut up zoom zoom
That might be more believable if performances didn't plant people to clap and laugh at shit.
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