Laugh Track...why?

[Prosecutor]

I cannot watch a show with a "laugh track"..., the canned laughter that plays after every third sentence. I have no idea why somebody thought that this was a good idea. Laugh track = intolerable...am I the only one?

[CP]

Yes :rofl:

[Prosecutor]

Yes :rofl:

[Quote....laugh track.....Quote]

[Sea Six]

I despise laugh tracks. I just can't watch anything that uses it. For that reason, I have apparently, missed out "on a lot of great sitcoms."

Whatever. You won't see a tear in my eye.

[themonk]

one reason why I can't stand 2.5 Retards.

[Yerf Dog]

So idiots know when to laugh.

[NEVRL8T]

Drives me up a wall.

[bsmith]

My wife likes "Two Broke Girls" and I cringe at the constant laugh track. :ack:

[DJ_Critterus]

My wife likes "Two Broke Girls" and I cringe at the constant laugh track. :ack:

I cringe at the stupid jokes that need a laugh track for some kind of reccognition.

Plus, there's only like 2-3 different laugh tracks throught each show. Isnt' it odd how the live audience seems to have the same exact laugh throughout the entire show?

[mrvette]

I cannot watch a show with a "laugh track"..., the canned laughter that plays after every third sentence. I have no idea why somebody thought that this was a good idea. Laugh track = intolerable...am I the only one?

Yet another point I have with TV, for some 50 years now.....I used to run calls when starting out, and ended my TV career with being shop manager and head tech for several shops.....

one of my things was on the QC/burn in rack to keep the volume DOWN to ZERO Canned laughter is the most irritating thing on TV.....

the only thing I watch in this house is FOX NEWS....the rest is bullshit....

:cert:

[mrvette]

I cringe at the stupid jokes that need a laugh track for some kind of reccognition.

Plus, there's only like 2-3 different laugh tracks throught each show. Isnt' it odd how the live audience seems to have the same exact laaugh throught the entire show?

They use the same tracks on most shows, burned years ago when REAL funny guys like Milton Berle, Jack Benny, George Burns/Gracie Allen, and the like ran the shows.....

the shit they have for talent today is seriously lacking......there are no other Sinatras either, they all scream and shout.....can't carry a tune in a bucket.....

:beat:

[DJ_Critterus]

They use the same tracks on most shows, burned years ago when REAL funny guys like Milton Berle, Jack Benny, George Burns/Gracie Allen, and the like ran the shows.....

the shit they have for talent today is seriously lacking......there are no other Sinatras either, they all scream and shout.....can't carry a tune in a bucket.....

:beat:

You old timerrs all think the new stuff sucks. :yesnod:

[mrvette]

You old timerrs all think the new stuff sucks. :yesnod:

Because it DOES, :beat::rofl: and I don't THINK it sux I KNOW it does....

[LATB]

You old timerrs all think the new stuff sucks. :yesnod:

that's because most of it does.

most new music isn't music...it's noise.

most new comedy has a political agenda or uses blatant vulgarity to get a rise out of the viewer. the art of suggestion is lost on these newer hollyweird ass holes.

[mrvette]

that's because most of it does.

most new music isn't music...it's noise.

most new comedy has a political agenda or uses blatant vulgarity to get a rise out of the viewer. the art of suggestion is lost on these newer hollyweird ass holes.

They wooden know 'ART' if it hit them on the head......they all want to be Andy Dice Clay....trick is, he was a one act pony, heard his schtick once and the rest if fuggetaboutit.....

but Benny had more laughs with a word and a stare, he was a ARTIST,

[NeedSpeed]

You old timerrs all think the new stuff sucks. :yesnod:


The first American television show to incorporate a laugh track was the sitcom The Hank McCune Show in 1950.


:leaving:

[LATB]

I believe the laugh track comes from the time when shows were recorded in front of a live studio audience. I guess they have been trying to duplicate that.

[NeedSpeed]

In early television, most shows that were not live television used the single-camera filmmaking technique familiar from movies, where a show was created by filming each scene several times from different camera angles. Since it was not possible for an audience to be present during single-camera filming, there could be none of the live audience laughter that audiences had come to expect from radio comedy, and which was still offered in the many shows broadcast live with audiences laughing in the studio.[2] In addition, live audiences could not be relied upon to laugh at the correct moment. Other times, the audiences would laugh too long or too loud, sounding unnatural and forced or throwing off the performers' rhythms.[2]

CBS sound engineer Charles Douglass noticed these inconsistencies, and took it upon himself to remedy the situation.[3] If a joke did not get the desired chuckle, Douglass inserted additional laughter and if the live audience chuckled for too long, Douglass gradually muted the guffaws. This editing technique became known as 'sweetening', in which pre-recorded laughter is used to augment the response of the real studio audience if they did not react as strongly as desired.[3] Conversely, the process could be used to "desweeten" audience reactions, toning down unwanted loud laughter or removing inappropriate applause, thus making the laughter more in line with the producer's preferred method of telling the story.[4]

Douglass spent countless hours extracting laughter, applause, and other reactions (including people moving around in their seats) from live soundtracks he had recorded (mainly from the dialogue-less pantomime segments of The Red Skelton Show) and then placed the recorded sounds into a huge tape machine, dubbed the "laff box", the basic concept of which would later be reworked as the Chamberlin Music Master and succeeded by the more widely-known Mellotron.

:dance:

[mrvette]

:dance:

Good history there man, I had forgotten some of it, and never knew the rest....

:hurray::seasix:

[Burro (He/Haw)]

Hollywood lore has it uncle Miltie had an enormous crank.