Laughtracks: No problem

I don't have the slightest problem with a sitcom having a laugh track.
Or to be more specific, I don't mind it at all when a comedy has a
studio audience whose laughter is audible after jokes.

Some people are under the mistaken impression that studio laughter is
there because TV execs think people are too dumb to know when to
laugh. Ummm, no, sorry. It's there because for the entirety of
theatrical history that preceded TV (and radio), people experienced
comedy in the presence of an audience, and studio laughter is meant to
reproduce the experience of being in an audience.

I don't think every comedy has to have studio laughter (I love "The
Office" for instance), but those of you who complain that the ones
without studio laughter are inherently better are faux-intellectuals,
I'm afraid. The kind of person who thinks that Steinbeck was the one
who first penned the line "Of Mice and Men" or think that Ronald
Reagan was the first person to use the phrase "a City upon a Hill"

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  • Re: Laughtracks: No problem
    ... The laugh track is faked, by that I mean it is prerecorded and stored away ... problematic if not impossible to have any kind of studio audience present. ... Then again many so called comedy shows would face the problem of their TV ... Or the TV audience laughing in all the places at all the wrong things. ...
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  • is the LAUGH-TRACK really necessary ?
    ... Why doe's Hollywood deem it necessary to place the so called *Laugh Track* ... over all its so called comedy shows? ... be very problematic to have any kind of live studio audience present, ...
    (rec.arts.tv)
  • Re: Multicamera - What is it?
    ... is the ability to turn the laugh track completely off. ... Drama -- was episode 17 of the first season. ... If I say something is comedy, ...
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  • Re: Multicamera - What is it?
    ... I think it was generally considered a comedy, ... Drama -- was episode 17 of the first season. ... storylines -- a gay soldier, a patient dying in real time (complete ... mostly for laughs despite the inclusion of a laugh track. ...
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  • Re: is the LAUGH-TRACK really necessary ?
    ... over all its so called comedy shows? ... Some of the so called humorous scenes are filmed on location were it would ... that scene comes with its very own *Laugh Track* why? ... applied that reaction over the episode. ...
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