Corek BleedingHollow absolutely true. Check out layered, well written comedy. It doesn’t need a laugh track. On the flip side watch something shallow lwithout a laugh track, and you’ll sit there stony faced wondering what you ever saw in it.
The actor is putting on his shoes .. HAHAHAHAHAHA The actor is going to the toilet.. HAHAHAHAHA .. they put a laugh track everytime the actor opens his mouth really .. which is infuriating 🤯
And even if it was funny, it usually wouldn't be laugh-out-loud funny. The laugh track just interrupts scenes that might have had some potential. Some shows overused the laugh tracks so much that actors have to take a break after every line for the laugh track.
@@AloneInTheCandyJar And thanks to the heaps of laugh tracked comedy shows from america up through the years, the rest of the world see being told when something is funny to be a very american thing... Not as a command but to help slow people get the joke. Thus americans are seen as slow to the rest of the world.
There is cognitive dissonance in America with the people vs corporate curated towards the people. Both are distinctly American. America thinks it's very free, very about making their own choices, but there is a reason billions of dollars are spent on commercials and also any laws surrounding them to make them as manipulative as possible. Laugh track is actually a great example. Due to our social nature and empathy, we feel like we should be laughing when we hear laughing. If you associate a show to laughter, even when fake you are more bound to feel at ease with the show. Even knowing it's fake, unless it has direct underlying creepiness to the laugh or laughing at very inappropriate times, will make anyone feel that way. It's like commercials and advertising itself isn't something anyone on earth can "see past" not even people who make adverts for a living and know all the tricks and manipulative tactics. Knowing doesn't mean a person becomes non-susceptible.
@@vixxcelacea2778 It feels like you're saying that all americans are manipulated so much by the corporate advertising that they just do things mindlessly almost subconsciously. I'd have to disagree. Yes advertising (or laughing) obviously has an effect on people's actions and behaviours, but knowing the psychology behind advertisements would most certainly change the way people view that product or service. In fact, it can have a reverse effect, such as campaign adverts. People consciously listen and absorb the information provided by the subject of the campaign to get a sense of their ideologies. An advertisement is just like a campaign for the service/product being sold. People consciously absorb information about that product and their own personal beliefs and ideologies will either align with the product/service or not, which will influence their purchase.
When I was a kid, it was strange that the cartoon shows didn’t have a laugh track but shows for adults did. It was like adults didn’t know when something was funny or not.
@@binkwillans5138 it’s actually pretty interesting. The Flintstones, Top Cat, and the The Jetsons aired during prime time on ABC so they were marketed as a family shows and had laugh tracks. For Saturday morning shows, since Looney Tunes and MGM didn’t have a laugh tracks since they were originally shown in theaters, nearly all the other cartoons in this slot didn’t have a laugh track either. The only Saturday morning cartoon I can think of that has a laugh track is Scooby Doo. But I’m from the Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network generation so I might have missed one. But yeah, excluding Scooby Doo and maybe one or two I’m missing, the vast majority of cartoons produced for kids from the 1960s through the 1990s didn’t have laugh tracks.
I was part of a "live recorded audience" for a show.. and trust me that those weren't real laughs either.. it was sooo tiring..the jokes were good but they forced you to laugh harder each take... half the audience left before the taping was done, it was a long day and no one had the energy to keep fake laughing. And not all moments were laugh worthy but we still had to give 100%. Never again.. and every time I hear a laugh track on older shows I.used to enjoy watching, I get reminded of how painful that is..and feel bad for anyyy one who took part in that. Shudder when i hear at the beginning "this show was recorded in front of a live studio audience" ..poor audience :'(
My experience was complety different: The bloopers made things funny, and the brass band (have you ever heard Tequila played of the tuba before?) kept us entertained between takes. The taping took about an hour.
"It's an American thing - don't tell me what to laugh at." It's funny, because due to the prevalence of laugh tracks in American shows, being told what to laugh at is one of the most American things to the rest of the world.
Yeah also she didn't mention The Office (the original english version) which was one of the biggest recent comedies to do no laugh track and also a single cam mockumentary, and you notice after The American Office started to get big, a ton of very similar no laugh track/mockumentary style comedies popped up.
I absoultely get why it was created as yeah hearing the same joke 10x kills the joke. The problem for me was once they stopped using live audiences they kept the laugh track as a way to prop up shitty writting
Two Broke Girls is the worst for it!!!! It's very hit and miss with the comedy of it, but there's the canned laughter after almost every line! It's almost unbearable to watch!!
I went to a recording of a comedy show at the BBC a few years ago, they didn't use canned laughter, but relied on the live audience. The thing is, there were multiple takes & we were told to laugh as if we'd never heard the jokes before, so even though it was real people laughing, it wasn't always genuine laughter.
Sometimes you can hear gasps of disgust from a live studio audience, where the writers clearly expected laughter. Those are always interesting moments.
A lot of 80's or 70's shows did that weirdly enough. Look at A Very Special Episode series on Laugh or Die. I'm not sure which of those shows that had laughter were from live audiences or laugh tracks, but wow were they poorly timed
Which is why I didn't like Friends. I kept feeling stupid in scenes I didn't find funny until I stopped because it wasn't as funny as the laugh tracks make you believe.
I find the "don't tell me when to laugh" part of this a bit interesting. We mostly now scorn laugh tracks, however, we still praise musical scoring which often also guides (or attempts to guide) our feelings about individual scenes. We decry being guided as to when to laugh but accept being guided in how we feel. I find it a bit odd.
@@sam21462 Musical scores, unless they're intentionally going for bombastic, are subtler and could even provide insight and context. Plus there's a degree of appreciation for the artistry. Laugh tracks are meant to be intrusive and in your face and push one emotion. I think people are open to being asked to feel a certain way but hate being told "This is funny!"
There's another show you didn't mention that had an influence on laugh tracks: The Simpsons. Early Simpsons was really innovative, and the lack of a laugh track allowed them to revolutionize comedy. They would write and re-write their episodes, adding more funny moments on each pass. So you'd have a scene with one joke, then the writers would cram a mini-joke into the middle of that joke and a second, unexpected punchline after it. The humour was only able to be so rapid-fire because they didn't have to pause for a laugh track after each punchline.
Thing some people pick up on the jokes late. like telling two friends a joke and one gets it instantly and the next take a new minutes to. And some people will give a short laugh and some a none stop laugh.
@@ugur7227 How many of them created the internet and then gave it to the world for free? The same can be said for GPS and Space travel. Maybe not be so insecure about your backward culture and town down the leftist/Marxist tone. Let me give you some advice. Don't bitch like an Asian ladyboy but be genuine and positive. A person who is honest would say something to the tune of... "We are so lucky that Americans invented so many useful products that most countries would have never made in many lifetimes." Uger, who said, "YT is ONLY for Americans"? Like all leftists, you make an argument stance with no one on the other side of it. Find me a single creator of YT or manager who think like you. See, there is none. It is like calling Americans racist when they are the least racist country on earth. Asian leftist from Russia to China has been doing this. They don't compare America to their country but to Utopia. Yes I do have a post-grad background in this field of study, not that it matters to me but many leftists like to make arguments based on authority not the Socratic method. This is why even to this day in the former USSR and China you will find that most students with a degree are quite ignorant. You can find English teachers with masters who can barely speak English.
It's actually for editing. They don't actually think every single line is funny. Say you get a good take but an actor messes up at the end. The audience reacts great, but you need to get that last shot. So you film it but when you get to the edit, the laughter cuts in and out between takes. So what do you do? You take the audio from a clean laugh track and blend it in.
This video did a good job of running us through some sitcoms that have laugh tracks in them but didn't fully explore WHY sitcoms stopped using laugh tracks.
It's cheaper to record/film in a studio without an audience. That's one of the main reasons; budgetary and insurance concerns. One audience member trips and is hospitalized for an injury: big bucks out the window. I agree this was not clearly explained in an otherwise very good video.
It was started near the beginning quite clearly. Sitcoms have been declining in popularity and with that canned laughter has also gone into decline. Implicit: Comedy is evolving away from the format which used it routinely. It later pointed to beginning of the decline beginning in 1992 and described instances of producers/directors explicitly rejecting it as insincere, too much of a cue to audiences and "self-defeating."
@@ems7623 in general, mass media is declining and people don't want to be spoon fed what to believe and how to feel. That's why woke shows and movies are hated. It's bigger than comedy.
considering how subjective humour is though, I’m surprised it’s lasted this long. For instance I don’t mind it at all on King of Queens because it tends to laugh with me whereas I find Big Bang Theory mildly clever at best and the laugh track completely ruins any entertainment I could get from it.
@@gamecreatorc It's different when someone manufactures laughing into something, that's basically saying "this is funny" and telling you what's funny instead of others naturally finding something funny while others don't.
2:07 "A couple of weeks later he had a show that wasn't very funny and he insisted that we put in the salvaged laughs. Thus the laugh track was born." So as we expected even the very first use of it was to make something that wasn't funny seem funny.
when you think about it,this method exists in real life too. Like if someone is funny or does silly funny actions while telling an unfunny joke it makes it laughable,but when a normal person says the same joke its not funny at all
True, but one of the guys shown in the video admitted it is also used when a line is funnier than the writers themselves thought and using the actual audience reactions would be eating up the time needed to set up the next joke or to further the story along.
It was meant for the first people to know television after knowing live shows. Current generations have grown up watching media on their own and don't mind not feeling like in a theater.
@@josephengel2091 That is the very reason I never liked going to movies for comedy shows, or really any shows. The audience totally ruins the experience by talking laughing and screaming too long or at inappropriate times. Also getting up for concessions of the bathroom. Movies will be Blu-Ray for me.
For me MASH is my favourite example of a show that is better without the laugh track. Thanks to DVD releases you can get it with or without and it's amazing how much it changes the tone. It becomes a lot more clear that they are coping through humour and laughing so they don't cry when you cut the canned laughter and it makes the show hit a lot harder.
It was shown without a laugh track in the U.K. There was a documentary about comedy shows that aired on BBC 2. Alan Alda mentioned how glad everyone involved with M.A.S.H was glad it was aired as intended in the U.K. It's strange how a foreign country, could see the artistic merit of the show without a laugh track, and not underestimate the intelligence of its viewers. Yet the very country the show was made in and for, had the complete opposite approach.
I've always hated laugh tracks. Man walks into apartment "ahahahahahhah", man opens fridge "ahahahahaha", man grabs drink "ahahahahaha" ...so annonying
Yes. Sounds like Seinfeld. And it worked:( so many startedvto laugh due to the laughtracks. Billiondollar «invention’. Try to watch some of those classics without any of those fake laughters...
I'm very much not American, and I find canned laughter condescending. Especially since most of the time the punchlines just ain't funny. Or at least not funny enough to prompt more than a closed mouth chuckle
Someone needs to write a sitcom about morticians that uses canned laughter only while they're in the morge. It would give such a dark twist to the formless laughter that you hear ringing out from people long dead.
hmmm... yeah... but i wonder... is part of the awkwardness the "missing" of a laugh track? Is part of the funniness of the scene due to defying the audience´s expactation, that in this scene, there would "normally" be a canned laugh. But there isnt. Haha. Kinda like that? Partially?
"Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.” - Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
Married with Children had to use a laugh track and do a lot of sound editing because the live audience loved the characters and show so much that they would never stop cheering, laughing and reacting.
As a kid watching Gilligan’s Island, I said hundreds of times, “That wasn’t really funny so why are all these people laughing?” Now I understand. It was fake laughter.
I felt the same way about threes company. Especially when there would be laughter or applause at inappropriate moments. I haven't watched that show in years so I'm not sure if it would still be funny to me, but looking back on it now I realized it was the canned laughter. Although.. I think I it may have been filmed in front of a live audience.
one of the first sitcoms i remember watching without a laugh track was Parker Lewis Can't Lose, it was hilarious, energetic, and weird.. felt like i was watching some secret show no one knew about.
I hope laugh tracks never make a comeback. I used to not mind them when I was a kid but now they really get on my nerves so I can't even rewatch some old stuff that I used to enjoy.
Same here. I used to freaking love shows with Laugh tracks growing up. It was like I didn't even notice the fake laughter. Or my brain just ignored them or something. And then something happened, like a decade ago... I discovered shows like 30 Rock, Arrested Development, It's always sunny in Philadelphia and Curb Your Enthusiasm. And since then, I can't stand laught track shows. I find them SO annoying and just painful to watch nowadays.
@@ItsTheGuy77 It's such a shame too because there are some classic shows that I would've liked to watch if it weren't for the laugh track. Chappelle's Show being number one.
@@TheMrKlump I'll say just because a show used a laugh track doesn't mean its automatically bad. It's just a product of its time. Drake & Josh and the Chappelle Show are some of the best shows that ever aired on TV and are definitely still worth a watch.
Americans: invent the laugh track Mike Royce, some American guy: "People hate being told when to laugh, but you wouldnt understand unless you're American." I've never understood the appeal of laugh track but its also just not my generations thing so idk
Americans over time stopped regularly going out to live or group performances and so we stopped needing a group reaction. A group can make or break an impression of media and I'm sure you can find tons of stories and stand up about going to a movie and how rude or hilarious the group or individuals were. Over time we've verged into a individualistic culture which has it's pros and cons just like any system. So now? Def don't want to get told what's funny and additionally these canned laughter shows are frustrating because if your humor is different then you feel isolated. One of the few times I watched big bang theory all the jokes that got laughs weren't funny to me because I knew too much about the subject to find the ignorance humorous. But I did laugh at other places that I just guess wasn't supposed to be funny? (I stopped watching because I'm a nerd and watching people just shit all over nerd culture and go haha social awkwardness isn't my cup of tea) The lack of laugh track, like is mentioned, also let's jokes fall and keep going, if you don't find a joke funny you don't have to wait for the next. Which can reflect a more rapid pace we like humor now. Things change, it's a fascinating thing!
In a few shows like friends and Big Bang, they just used the laughter of the actual audience. With only sometimes putting it over the top where audience couldn’t be, like the driving scenes
the driving scenes are still filmed in front of the audience on a soundstage. They're sitting in a car that's been cut in half in front of a green screen.
This thumbnail is a good comparison to excessive laugh tracks. Pointers and circles can be useful, but there's nothing in the thumbnail related to the subject matter. It's drawing attention to nothing.
I like it cuz it gives you time to laugh and process the moment of enjoyment. Now you laugh and/or people around you laugh and you miss a few seconds. when there's two jokes in a row you have to reward.
I'm surprised there wasn't a reference to the psychology of why this used to work. I remember two friends were laughing about something and kept saying "no soap radio" and just kept laughing so I started laughing too and then they laughed even more because they were experimenting with the concept that you can get someone to laugh at anything just by laughing at it with someone else and being totally convinced. Well they got me lol. And I know the laugh track works too, I remember hating everyone loves raynond but I would let out a chuckle now and then just because of the fucking laugh track
I grew up with it. I literally don't notice it...like breathing, if you think about it, you can tell, but if you're not paying attention, you just don't notice.
@@bcubed72 you are right - and that's the problem. You may not notice it anymore than you might notice being infected with a virus, but the process is similar and outcome, in its own way, not so different. My kids now grown up professional, each in their chosen field, grew up without sitcoms - or sweetened carbonated beverages for the same reason. Instead of sitcoms, they were either out enjoying an active life, or pursuing their interests in things that became their life work or thier greatest pleasure. They did not "live" through the lives of a laugh track.
@@ArtifiSir sorry to disagree with you, my friend, but I find the laugh tracks ruined those episodes of The Pink Panther, especially in the case of "SuperPink." (yeah, it was me who "disliked," no offense meant) The original, theatrical released episodes are much funnier, and without having the laugh tracks. ;-}
I'm really happy "Malcolm in the Middle" and "Community" appeared in this video as examples of funny comedies that were so well written and performed they didn't need a laugh track.
At least one Russian (soviet at the time) comedian used to say that western audiences didn't understand that something is a joke or funny unless comedian himself laughs. Entire generations raised on canned laughter would seem to explain that. For information - soviet comedies never used canned laughter, Russian shows started using it sometime in early 2000s, copy-pasting western tradition.
even worse are the "aw" sounds editor's put in when they want to convince me some particular scene in a sitcom must have felt very heartwarming to me. it feels so controlling.
Bruh I decided to watch a bit of nickelodeon like a few months ago and can confirm this, its like every show was poorly written, had shitty sets, and every five seconds there was a fucking laugh track, its a good thing other sitcoms have stopped using them before they further devolved into that trash
@@hijodelaisla275 And then people get up from the couch and laugh at themselves while talking about anything and expect you to laugh along even if it's not funny. Know those types. They train with tracks.
I remember when I was a child, I asked so many questions about these laughs, Like: Who are these people? Where are they sitting? Why we don't see them? Is this some theater where the show was filmed? I really can't be able to figure it out.
You have never heard "The Jeffersons/ Three's Company/Cheers/Family ties/Silver Spoons/Charles in charge/Growing Pains/ect. is tape before a live studio audience" at the beginning of the show?
My Step-Father absolutely detested laugh tracks. Funny thing, he’s the most laid back gentleman you’ll ever meet, but there was a fire in his eyes when he heard a laugh track.
Unpopular opinion: a well used laugh track makes a comedy better!! But a bad laugh track that laughs at questionable material makes is much worse, indeed..
Favorite episode: the one when Malcom saves the school fair by doing all that math, off the top of his head, in front of the whole school/audience. (And ending with knowing a state capitol, and adding, "But that's not math.")
Not to age myself, but The Wonder Years was my first introduction into comedies without laugh tracks. I thought having no laugh track made the show more genuine and real.
"It's an american thing - don't tell me what to laugh at" and at the same time Laugh Track is like the most american thing ever. It was rarely used in other countries.
@Salvador Luna I remember one year when Cartoon Network was running Fullmetal Alchemist and for April Fool's Day they inserted fart noises into the episodes. The problem was they added those noises into pretty much EVERY break between lines of dialogue, completely overdoing it. Laugh tracks are the same way. The problem never was them being used, it was them being used *too often.* Live audience reactions were unpredictable (an editor's worst nightmare) but that's part of what made them authentic. If you're recording in front of a live audience (cheers if you are, pun intended) BUT are intentionally prompting the studio audience to laugh (cry, gasp, aww, etc.) then it's not actually an authentic reaction, and the broadcast audience at home WILL eventually learn how to tell.
“Write a compelling script, deliver it with quality actors, edit it together with precision edits, and your audience will naturally give you the response you’re looking for.” -Zack Synder
It’s interesting just how painfully obvious a crutch it is when it’s taken out. Ever see clips of “Friends” or “The Big Bang Theory” without laughter? They’re akward and incredibly dry. Then on the other hand, you have a show like “MASH”, which, if you watch without the laughter, you’d never even know it was supposed to be there.
Aaron Stark that’s true to an extent, especially for the Big Bang theory. However, for shows like friends the show is designed to have laugh tracks so the actors pause when there is supposed to be a laugh track making it more awkward watching it without a laugh track
Today's TV is truly horrendous. AWFUL. Last good TV show was The Office, but it went downhill wh en Michael Scott left. Friends, I Love Lucy and others were live. If they used a laugh track, it was only to enhance. I love the old TV shows... there was a sweetness about th em and they were truly funny. Done with today's awful TV.
Like how you notice from consistently watching but it is never explicitly pointed out in Trailer Park Boys how they are always using an old jug or bottle as a cup. That is one of my favorite running jokes throughout the show.
If you appreciate shows like that, then I would recommend Arrested Development. It’s full of subtle jokes and callbacks but it also has enough prominent ones to keep you watching until the very end
That was fascinating and had a lot of information I wanted to know. I remember reading articles in the '80s that dismissed the laugh tracks as cheesy, hollow, and joke-killing in rather strident terms, so the tide was already starting to turn. Just one FYI: the Bill Cosby Show ran from 1970-1971, not 1961.
"if it doesn't get the laughs it deserves" maybe it wasn't funny? "No, wee need sweetening" Money is sweet but more money with less work is sweetening.
@ericj305 Millenials, amirite?!? *laugh track while the actors awkwardly stand still and do nothing for 3 seconds* Boomers will take literally any chance they can to blame others for the terrible things they created, popularised and forced until something collapsed.
@@PlsWaLuigiDomMe : Yeah, it was a familiar thing growing up but imagine having a laugh track on your favorite old comedy movies. It would be disastrous.
What is interesting is the possibility that the "Laff Box" and subsequent laugh tracks actually had a peer pressure effect that could manipulate a social value system in the audience.
In soviet Russia there was no additional synthetic laughter in translations, only an audience reaction if it was some live show. In the nineties we’ve got foreign content on tv and met this added laughter. Most common reaction was “jeez, are they really so stupid so they need a reminder to laugh?”
Seinfeld didn’t have a “laugh track”, they had an actual studio audience who they played to so those laughs were genuine. They would actually rewrite lines on the spot that didn’t receive big laughs. Much different than shows with no audience that pipe in the laugh track after the fact.
It wasn't either / or. Mostly it was audience AND a laugh track. Yes they had an audience but they also had a laugh track too. That's why it's called sweetening, they make the audience's reactions sweeter by adding in a laugh track. And "Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience" didn't mean that they weren't going to sweeten it after the fact, almost all did.
Almost every other country for decades: Frick off with your laugh tracks. Some dude in America who doesn't wanna be told when to laugh: It's an American thing. Every other country: -_-
This video and channel feels very US-centric, or as I've coined the term as: "US-default". That is the mentality that everything, unless otherwise stated, is USA. That everyone is from USA, and that you can speak to anyone as if they're from USA. Some minor examples are when people references historic events. A Brit would call their civil war the "British civil war" on a video, because the audience are from across the world. But an American would can their civil war the "civil war", because everything is about USA, right? - This video shows this example by reference the "history of TV", when it's just the history of US TV (which might coincide with some other countries too). This isn't an exclusive American thing either. These ways of speaking does spread to other people around the world, and they also speak in this US-default mentality. Examples are the Brit that said the weight in stones (very British), but gave it in pounds for their "international viewers" (aka USA), while the majority of the world uses metric. Another example is (paraphrasing here), that "Bruce Lee is China's answer to Chuck Norris ... or rather that Chuck Norris is the rest of the world's answer to Bruce Lee", because Chuck Norris is an international citizen or something. It's stupid and should stop.
My problem with using laugh tracks wasn't the laugh track itself. If used appropriately, it would have people laughing at the same times that I was laughing (mostly). The problem came when the laughter began to be used more and more often, when nothing funny was happening on screen. No jokes, just what would've been ordinary dialog. Dad - Hey kids, what are we having for supper? *chuckles* Kids - Let's have hot dogs! *laughter* Dad - Mmm, I love hot dogs! *louder laughter* One kid - Aww, hot dogs are boring! *mix of chuckles and laughter* Mom walks in - So what are we having for supper? *riotous extended laughter*
"In recent years, the laugh track has been used less and less as sitcoms generally have decreased in popularity" Taking a more optimistic view, perhaps it's been used less and less because the writing has improved to the point where *the jokes are actually funny so you don't need to be told when to laugh*
If the writers know how to write better jokes then why are sitcoms decreasing in popularity? Wouldn't they be increasing? Not saying sitcoms today are bad but if you were to ask anyone to list the top 10 sitcoms of all the only one that would make most people's list that is currently on the air is The Simpsons and that's a technicality since it's been on for 30 years and it's first 10 are considered by most to be superior.
@@TheAtkey I think it's human nature to list old shows which are not anymore as your favourites, also with more channels and streaming services no show will have the universal appeal that the likes of friends had. but even so there have been loads of great recent sitcoms (dependent on taste) Brooklyn 99 for example is really funny. however my personal favourite American sitcom remains Fraser, good sitcoms have died a death in the UK however but a flame that shines twice as bright burns for half as long.
@@TheAtkey Over time we have seen more Dramedy shows of which there are many current and successful ones (e.g. Orange is the New Black drove this for Netflix content but then there is Grace and Frankie, Sex Education and many others in this format). Dramedy shows also allow producers try to add more meaning and cover topics whilst avoid offending different groups of people. In terms of recent sitcoms there is also The Good Place and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt which both ended this year. I think many would have The Good Place on their top 10 list. With the lockdown resurgence of shows like New Girl and Community being rewatched and also discovered by many, we may (and hopefully) see an increase in comedy shows on air. Likely that we will have movies or feature length special episodes for the finished shows that have become popular again too like the rallying of #sixseasonsandamovie for Community.
it was the brains of several people in jars, connected to various apparatus that when the peddle was pressed would zap the brains and interact with the hardware to create the laughs. A truly horrific device. That's why Andy Kaufman called it dead people laughing. Because it was always true. It wasn't just recordings of now dead people, but psuedo-undead preserved people laughing.
I'm glad that animated sitcoms ie. Family Guy, Futurama, Simpsons, South Park, etc. decided not to use a laugh track. I think that's maybe part of the reason why those shows lasted so long.
I think the laugh track started waning in popularity because people didn't want to be reminded of an audience watching. they wanted to see a show that took place inside a bubble or a universe where no one is aware that they are a character on stage. And if they do break the fourth wall, they want it done more intellectually or intentionally (like Malcolm in the Middle did).
Sheldon: hey Leonard Leonard: yeah sheldon? Sheldon: *Bazinga* *Universal applause and laughter* *Several Emmies* *The actor for Sheldon got paid 1 million dollars per episode*
I always felt like the first 2.5 - 3 seasons were written to be smart but as the show got more popular the "smart people are also humorous" aspect turned into "smart person says big science word, hahaha" so that more people could watch it. One of the many reasons I gave up on it.
There was a sitcom with Aston Kutcher I saw on Netflix I turned off because of the laugh track. The show failed and I personally blame the laugh track.
i dont really care, people nowadays is like, "ugh can laughs is so wrong, it steps over my rights" and yet nobody cares about war, injustice and hunger in the world
@smelly_meat boss but for real, who actually watches recordings from a cinema? if i want to go there, not that i could atm, i'll go there for the expirence... it's kinda like watching pov footage of a amusement park instead of going there yourself, not that this is possible either... oh maybe there is a reason now why someone would seek out those kind of videos and rips ^^
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 people watch those recordings not because they want to but because it's the only way to watch a newly released movie without going to the cinema
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 You don't watch the recording of the cinema just because, you watch it because the movie just came out in theaters and digital copies aren't available yet, also its free. Obviously if a real digital copy was available you'd watch that instead of the footage from a cinema showing.
@@denisl2760 of course, but i'm not that horny about a new movie to go through that... if it's only available in cinema and i "have to" watch it, i'll go there... but i guess at the moment the whole cinema discussion is a whole subject for itself ;)
@@gps9715 I get the sentiment, but don't blame it on education. Education (outside of the US at least) has not declined in any way. You could argue the attention span of people who watch videos has declined and that's fair, but a blanket statement about "education today" is a bit too vague if you ask me, especially if you haven't been in contact with students or teachers.
Chuck Lorre: "I do not, and have never, sweetened my shows with fake laughs. I've always thought it was pretty hateful and a self-defeating practice." Big Bang Theory: "I'm gonna put a canned laughter when someone says a long scientific word."
that might be why i hate it and have never understood why.... it's like a similar thing when all the late night hosts where first hosting at home with no one there.... it was incredibly fucking awkward for the first episode, because they were still used to having it, but they seem to be getting the idea now...
Zoey 101 and Lizzie McGuire never used laugh tracks and yet they are the two most successful original comedy shows respectively in Nickelodeon and Disney.
I went to a taping of Married With Children, specifically the high school reunion episode. You’re sitting there and above you, hanging from the ceiling are these microphones. When there’s a joke or a gag, we found ourselves laughing out loud even if it wasn’t that funny. Seeing the microphones pointing down at you makes you feel compelled to over do the laughter and be heard.
Live audience laughter is contagious and a great experience but when you're home and there is no audience or the pretense of one it's weird like adding a track on Anchorman or Bridesmaids. In the theater you get that live audience experience but at home canning those laughs would be really odd.
@@marsneedstowels Nope. No drunks. BUT...the mood was casual. Most of the action took place on the stage to the right of the Bundy living room. During set up, Christina Applegate (Kelly Bundy) was resting on the Bundy couch. Couple dudes would yell, "Kelly! Wake up!" She would playfully reply, "Shuttup..." That's about the extent of the raucousness.
That's very interesting. But it feels more like a recommendation to like and subscribe rather then having fake ppl laugh and make you think ppl are entertained
"The laughter was inconsistent and the timing was off." Almost like it was...fake? I'm so glad this is going away. If a joke isn't funny it deserves to fail.
Pretty sure it was saying the real laughter was inconsistent because they recorded the scene multiple times over the course of a day. So the laughs didnt always line up, similar to how clocks and outfits and other minor details dont always line up between cuts. So they used laugh tracks to fix that
@@jatzi1526 The real laughter was inconsistent to their vision of how it should play out because in their vision, the jokes were funnier than they actually were, and the live audience was enjoying the show rather than waiting to go home.
@@TheReaverOfDarkness It's also that the laughing audio doesn't line up correctly because angles were filmed at different times and then cut together. Even though laugh tracks are already jarring, it would be even more so if the laughing randomly changed to a completely different sound as soon as the camera cut away - would defeat the purpose of creating an imaginary "audience" watching the show with you.
I laughed and they recorded me laughing five times. Then they tried to join those five videos together. Of course some inconsistencies will occur, since it’s all edited, but I still did a real laugh.
Funny how getting rid of laugh tracks was called "an American thing ... we don't like to be told what to laugh at"". Lol. I always thought of laugh tracks as very American.
A key aspect wasn't covered: comedies using laugh tracks are written in a style that replicates the live theatre experience, including a shared audience response, the invisible fourth wall separating the audience from the scene, and actors playing to the audience and holding for laughs. Single camera shows are replicating a more cinematic, real life experience (even if it is full of unrealistic, outlandish events, like in the Office) and so the storytelling style is different. Single camera storytelling is currently in fashion, and so no laugh track is needed. Aaron Sorkin's first TV series, Sports Night, featured the disappearing laugh track, where they gradually reduced its use over the lifetime of the series to (I believe) zero. Sorkin's writing for the series with its rapid, elaborate dialogue was a better fit for the single camera format and so worked better without a laugh track.
also I think guys from Seinfeld said laugh tracks weren't necessarily to sweeten but more because shows started to be complicated when ti comes to shooting, editing, splicing different parts and takes together, so it needed some canned laughters to smoothen these edits
I honestly like the laugh track, I'm not sure why but it adds something the scene feels kinda empty without it. Maybe it's just because I'm used to it in a way or something.
Yes, but also I don't notice it when it's missing. I never would have guessed that "the Office" has no laugh track. Now I have to go back and re-watch it.
Because they abused the laugh button. 9 times out of ten the line wasn’t funny.
Corek BleedingHollow absolutely true.
Check out layered, well written comedy. It doesn’t need a laugh track.
On the flip side watch something shallow lwithout a laugh track, and you’ll sit there stony faced wondering what you ever saw in it.
The actor is putting on his shoes .. HAHAHAHAHAHA
The actor is going to the toilet.. HAHAHAHAHA .. they put a laugh track everytime the actor opens his mouth really .. which is infuriating 🤯
And even if it was funny, it usually wouldn't be laugh-out-loud funny.
The laugh track just interrupts scenes that might have had some potential. Some shows overused the laugh tracks so much that actors have to take a break after every line for the laugh track.
True, but I still prefer shows that have the laugh track. The ones that don't I feel are even less funny.
Secondary character walks in and the audience pees their pant.
"Americans don't like to be told how to react", and yet laugh track is one of the most American thing on TV lol
Jose De Leon I don’t think it’s an American thing, people in general don’t like to be told when something is funny. It’s like explaining a joke
@@AloneInTheCandyJar And thanks to the heaps of laugh tracked comedy shows from america up through the years, the rest of the world see being told when something is funny to be a very american thing... Not as a command but to help slow people get the joke. Thus americans are seen as slow to the rest of the world.
There is cognitive dissonance in America with the people vs corporate curated towards the people. Both are distinctly American. America thinks it's very free, very about making their own choices, but there is a reason billions of dollars are spent on commercials and also any laws surrounding them to make them as manipulative as possible. Laugh track is actually a great example. Due to our social nature and empathy, we feel like we should be laughing when we hear laughing. If you associate a show to laughter, even when fake you are more bound to feel at ease with the show. Even knowing it's fake, unless it has direct underlying creepiness to the laugh or laughing at very inappropriate times, will make anyone feel that way.
It's like commercials and advertising itself isn't something anyone on earth can "see past" not even people who make adverts for a living and know all the tricks and manipulative tactics. Knowing doesn't mean a person becomes non-susceptible.
@@AloneInTheCandyJar i was paraphrasing Mike Royce 7:57 from the vid.
@@vixxcelacea2778 It feels like you're saying that all americans are manipulated so much by the corporate advertising that they just do things mindlessly almost subconsciously. I'd have to disagree. Yes advertising (or laughing) obviously has an effect on people's actions and behaviours, but knowing the psychology behind advertisements would most certainly change the way people view that product or service. In fact, it can have a reverse effect, such as campaign adverts. People consciously listen and absorb the information provided by the subject of the campaign to get a sense of their ideologies. An advertisement is just like a campaign for the service/product being sold. People consciously absorb information about that product and their own personal beliefs and ideologies will either align with the product/service or not, which will influence their purchase.
When I was a kid, it was strange that the cartoon shows didn’t have a laugh track but shows for adults did. It was like adults didn’t know when something was funny or not.
That's an amazing observation
It's funny because it is true
Didn't Top Cat and the Flintstones have laugh trax?
@@binkwillans5138 it’s actually pretty interesting. The Flintstones, Top Cat, and the The Jetsons aired during prime time on ABC so they were marketed as a family shows and had laugh tracks. For Saturday morning shows, since Looney Tunes and MGM didn’t have a laugh tracks since they were originally shown in theaters, nearly all the other cartoons in this slot didn’t have a laugh track either. The only Saturday morning cartoon I can think of that has a laugh track is Scooby Doo. But I’m from the Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network generation so I might have missed one.
But yeah, excluding Scooby Doo and maybe one or two I’m missing, the vast majority of cartoons produced for kids from the 1960s through the 1990s didn’t have laugh tracks.
@@l4ndst4nder I think Pink Panther originally didn't have a laugh track, then they ruined it forever.
I was part of a "live recorded audience" for a show.. and trust me that those weren't real laughs either.. it was sooo tiring..the jokes were good but they forced you to laugh harder each take... half the audience left before the taping was done, it was a long day and no one had the energy to keep fake laughing. And not all moments were laugh worthy but we still had to give 100%. Never again.. and every time I hear a laugh track on older shows I.used to enjoy watching, I get reminded of how painful that is..and feel bad for anyyy one who took part in that. Shudder when i hear at the beginning "this show was recorded in front of a live studio audience" ..poor audience :'(
лунита Jesus you make it sound traumatising
What show were you laughing for?
Haha sounds worse than Jury duty.
My experience was complety different: The bloopers made things funny, and the brass band (have you ever heard Tequila played of the tuba before?) kept us entertained between takes. The taping took about an hour.
I heard if the live audience doesn’t laugh they scrap the joke but I always knew they probably made people laugh or pressured.
When I was a kid, I thought my TV was picking up the laughter of other people who were watching the same show.
That is legitimately wholesome
someone make this
I too thought that until this video.
That's hilarious !
Tom Remes - omg me too!! 😂😂
"It's an American thing - don't tell me what to laugh at."
It's funny, because due to the prevalence of laugh tracks in American shows, being told what to laugh at is one of the most American things to the rest of the world.
Exactly, it's also one of the most annoying things in the world.
Yeah also she didn't mention The Office (the original english version) which was one of the biggest recent comedies to do no laugh track and also a single cam mockumentary, and you notice after The American Office started to get big, a ton of very similar no laugh track/mockumentary style comedies popped up.
>It's funny
Are you telling me what to laugh at?
*Only Fools and Horses*
Americans think everything's their thing
“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950's. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”
now that's a killing joke
"Insert laughtrack"
"Bring out your dead! · Here's one. · Nine pence. · I'm not dead! · What? · Nothing. Here's your nine pence. · I'm not dead!
Oof
Awesome horror concept
I’ve been in a live audience. A 30 min show took 6-8 hours to film. We had to laugh at the same jokes 5-10x.
It’s depressing
Really ? What show ?
I was about to ask about that.
I've been at a live concert filming.... snoooooze boring hours
Hahahahaha...hahaha
I absoultely get why it was created as yeah hearing the same joke 10x kills the joke. The problem for me was once they stopped using live audiences they kept the laugh track as a way to prop up shitty writting
@porschedriven918 if i said that to a woman i would be prosecuted or called a creep 🙃
Because they started to sound like this:
Hey man 'AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHA'
*3 second pause*
What's up? 'HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA'
So true! :D
Yeah and it gets so annoying
@@ChileCheez Finally R.I.P to that dog, now my gate premise will be clean.
Hahahhahahahahhahahha
Big Bang is very unfunny, its hidden in the canned laugh imo.
VAZUUUUUUUUUUUP
Imagine if they had these for horror films and it was just hundreds of people screaming at the scary bits.
They would be called "sithors"
Or a romance and its just moaning at the romance bits
@@maulalex08 bruh put in that one moaning girl meme for every sexy bit
I think the soundtrack is for that. The “Psycho” stabs are basically that.
Watch midsommar there’s a scene that reproduce that a bit
Actor: "The other day, I.."
Laugh track: "Ahahahaha ... wooh!"
Me: 😶
look up greentext big bang theory
Two Broke Girls is the worst for it!!!! It's very hit and miss with the comedy of it, but there's the canned laughter after almost every line! It's almost unbearable to watch!!
😶, guess its time to move on to another series noww..
That is literally Lilly Singh every night
I went to a recording of a comedy show at the BBC a few years ago, they didn't use canned laughter, but relied on the live audience. The thing is, there were multiple takes & we were told to laugh as if we'd never heard the jokes before, so even though it was real people laughing, it wasn't always genuine laughter.
Yeah that's just the same as canned laughter.
Not to burst your bubble, but real live audience that is forced to laugh is what called canned laughter…lol your life is a lie…
Wouldn't it be easier to record the laughs separately?
@@bonaaq86 Yep, it would. But if they do use an audience they’re able to say “filmed in front of a live studio audience”
@@lake4433 lol, didn't know that was a thing
How is it an American thing not to like being told when to laugh when Americans created the whole fake laugh sitcom thing and it was successful too
Big Boi cause shit gets old
exactly, wtf. those laugh tracks were a very American thing.
because, on the contrary, Americans love to be told what to do
because the guy is talking out of his ass just for the sake of it. yet another very american thing.
@@charlesvan13 minstrel shows, not vaudeville shows
Imagine if they used it for every emotion. Like a sad scene with just hundreds of people crying at the same time. This shit’s really horrifying
Some show do do a sort of "awwwww" sound for sad scenes but it's not as common as laugh tracks
I could see a show using that successfully, the next big step in comedy is the ironic laugh track.
"Sad" music is used in these momments
Sometimes you can hear gasps of disgust from a live studio audience, where the writers clearly expected laughter. Those are always interesting moments.
A lot of 80's or 70's shows did that weirdly enough. Look at A Very Special Episode series on Laugh or Die.
I'm not sure which of those shows that had laughter were from live audiences or laugh tracks, but wow were they poorly timed
Societal pressure. Everyone else is laughing, so it must be funny, and I should too. Laugh tracks are added to make a show seem funnier than it is.
Same thing that drives fashion, consumerism in general and is a basis for most advertising.
Which is why I didn't like Friends. I kept feeling stupid in scenes I didn't find funny until I stopped because it wasn't as funny as the laugh tracks make you believe.
I find the "don't tell me when to laugh" part of this a bit interesting. We mostly now scorn laugh tracks, however, we still praise musical scoring which often also guides (or attempts to guide) our feelings about individual scenes. We decry being guided as to when to laugh but accept being guided in how we feel. I find it a bit odd.
Its part of it, but have you ever gone to the cinema, or maybe a comedy show and everybody else is laughing along? Its just a different experience.
@@sam21462 Musical scores, unless they're intentionally going for bombastic, are subtler and could even provide insight and context. Plus there's a degree of appreciation for the artistry.
Laugh tracks are meant to be intrusive and in your face and push one emotion. I think people are open to being asked to feel a certain way but hate being told "This is funny!"
There's another show you didn't mention that had an influence on laugh tracks: The Simpsons. Early Simpsons was really innovative, and the lack of a laugh track allowed them to revolutionize comedy. They would write and re-write their episodes, adding more funny moments on each pass. So you'd have a scene with one joke, then the writers would cram a mini-joke into the middle of that joke and a second, unexpected punchline after it. The humour was only able to be so rapid-fire because they didn't have to pause for a laugh track after each punchline.
“Audience would laugh at the wrong time”? So maybe your jokes are not as you expect them to be.
Thing some people pick up on the jokes late. like telling two friends a joke and one gets it instantly and the next take a new minutes to. And some people will give a short laugh and some a none stop laugh.
@@phoenix0547 or laugh longer than expected. Timing in comedy is everything. A pause from the actor two seconds longer can ruin the joke
Agreed, you don't see a comedian telling the audience that they're laughing at the wrong time 🤣
not only that but they would watch the same scene over and over so of course it gets unfunny and they gotta force it, thats not easy to time
@@phoenix0547 if some laughs at your "serious scene" you should think about its actual seriousness.
Cheddar: “Americans don’t like being told what to do”
Also Cheddar: “Make sure to like, comment, and subscribe and turn on bell notifications”
Well no one likes it
UA-cam videos are not only for Americans. There are at least 193 more countries besides USA.
@@ugur7227 You lie.
@@ugur7227 How many of them created the internet and then gave it to the world for free? The same can be said for GPS and Space travel.
Maybe not be so insecure about your backward culture and town down the leftist/Marxist tone. Let me give you some advice. Don't bitch like an Asian ladyboy but be genuine and positive. A person who is honest would say something to the tune of... "We are so lucky that Americans invented so many useful products that most countries would have never made in many lifetimes."
Uger, who said, "YT is ONLY for Americans"? Like all leftists, you make an argument stance with no one on the other side of it. Find me a single creator of YT or manager who think like you. See, there is none. It is like calling Americans racist when they are the least racist country on earth. Asian leftist from Russia to China has been doing this. They don't compare America to their country but to Utopia.
Yes I do have a post-grad background in this field of study, not that it matters to me but many leftists like to make arguments based on authority not the Socratic method. This is why even to this day in the former USSR and China you will find that most students with a degree are quite ignorant. You can find English teachers with masters who can barely speak English.
Maybe the joke is they like telling you what you do
Laugh tracks were excessive. It would be
"Hi." [CANNED LAUGHTER] "What's your name?" [CANNED LAUGHTEER]
ua-cam.com/video/fF0Havte3Os/v-deo.html
"Mom, I'm pregnant."
Woooooooo!
It's actually for editing. They don't actually think every single line is funny. Say you get a good take but an actor messes up at the end. The audience reacts great, but you need to get that last shot. So you film it but when you get to the edit, the laughter cuts in and out between takes. So what do you do? You take the audio from a clean laugh track and blend it in.
I think HIMYM found a good middle ground. Not too much but just enough to lighten the mood.
Especially on shity shows like The big bang theory where nothing is funny so you got to act like the word hello is
This video did a good job of running us through some sitcoms that have laugh tracks in them but didn't fully explore WHY sitcoms stopped using laugh tracks.
It's cheaper to record/film in a studio without an audience. That's one of the main reasons; budgetary and insurance concerns. One audience member trips and is hospitalized for an injury: big bucks out the window. I agree this was not clearly explained in an otherwise very good video.
You don't want to make enemies of shows, writers and producers. There are popular videos that show why The Big Bang Theory was not funny at all.
It was started near the beginning quite clearly. Sitcoms have been declining in popularity and with that canned laughter has also gone into decline. Implicit: Comedy is evolving away from the format which used it routinely.
It later pointed to beginning of the decline beginning in 1992 and described instances of producers/directors explicitly rejecting it as insincere, too much of a cue to audiences and "self-defeating."
@@ems7623 in general, mass media is declining and people don't want to be spoon fed what to believe and how to feel. That's why woke shows and movies are hated. It's bigger than comedy.
@@SonicWizKid_Kates laugh tracks don't need live audience, that's why they are called canned laughter.
I have a simple veiw on It:
If the laugh tracks laughs with me. It's fine
If it laughs at something that isn't funny. Its really annoying
True
considering how subjective humour is though, I’m surprised it’s lasted this long. For instance I don’t mind it at all on King of Queens because it tends to laugh with me whereas I find Big Bang Theory mildly clever at best and the laugh track completely ruins any entertainment I could get from it.
Why? If you're in a theater watching a movie and a few people laugh at a joke that you and most others don't, do you find that annoying?
@@gamecreatorc It's different when someone manufactures laughing into something, that's basically saying "this is funny" and telling you what's funny instead of others naturally finding something funny while others don't.
@@gamecreatorc if its 50 times a movie, yes.
2:07 "A couple of weeks later he had a show that wasn't very funny and he insisted that we put in the salvaged laughs. Thus the laugh track was born."
So as we expected even the very first use of it was to make something that wasn't funny seem funny.
Now THAT's funny!
P.s - Friends is not funny
Kinda pathetic haha
when you think about it,this method exists in real life too.
Like if someone is funny or does silly funny actions while telling an unfunny joke it makes it laughable,but when a normal person says the same joke its not funny at all
Everyone's suspicions are confirmed: The laugh track was first added because the unedited material wasn't funny.
True, but one of the guys shown in the video admitted it is also used when a line is funnier than the writers themselves thought and using the actual audience reactions would be eating up the time needed to set up the next joke or to further the story along.
@@josephengel2091 I've never heard a single funny joke in a sitcom.
It was meant for the first people to know television after knowing live shows. Current generations have grown up watching media on their own and don't mind not feeling like in a theater.
@@ZaveAres I feel bad for you.... to be unable to find something funny sounds like a terrible way to live.
@@josephengel2091
That is the very reason I never liked going to movies for comedy shows, or really any shows. The audience totally ruins the experience by talking laughing and screaming too long or at inappropriate times. Also getting up for concessions of the bathroom. Movies will be Blu-Ray for me.
For me MASH is my favourite example of a show that is better without the laugh track. Thanks to DVD releases you can get it with or without and it's amazing how much it changes the tone. It becomes a lot more clear that they are coping through humour and laughing so they don't cry when you cut the canned laughter and it makes the show hit a lot harder.
It was shown without a laugh track in the U.K. There was a documentary about comedy shows that aired on BBC 2. Alan Alda mentioned how glad everyone involved with M.A.S.H was glad it was aired as intended in the U.K. It's strange how a foreign country, could see the artistic merit of the show without a laugh track, and not underestimate the intelligence of its viewers. Yet the very country the show was made in and for, had the complete opposite approach.
Laugh Tracks are the television equivalent to if we actually laughed out loud when we said lol in messages.
Lol
I use 😂 for something funny
But I use 🤣 for when I laughed out loud
There should be a sound feature every time you type lol
@@jayyt2969 same response!!
AAAAAARRRRRRRRRREEEEEEERRREE YYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUU SSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS????????????????????
I've always hated laugh tracks. Man walks into apartment "ahahahahahhah", man opens fridge "ahahahahaha", man grabs drink "ahahahahaha" ...so annonying
Only thing worse is Jonny Test, where every single moment has a weild noise. Literally every single movement
I've always felt they insult my intelligence lol like I'll tell what I think is funny thank you very much
Yes.
Sounds like Seinfeld.
And it worked:( so many startedvto laugh due to the laughtracks.
Billiondollar «invention’.
Try to watch some of those classics without any of those fake laughters...
@@WolfgangDoW like Big Time Rush, it makes you miss the laugh track
Man comments...ha ha ha ha
that guy said not liking laugh tracks is “an american thing” even though laugh tracks were invented and predominantly used in America ? lol
I was just about to comment the same when I spotted this.
This “american thing” was to much
Umm, didn't the Benny Hill show use a laugh track?
I'm very much not American, and I find canned laughter condescending. Especially since most of the time the punchlines just ain't funny. Or at least not funny enough to prompt more than a closed mouth chuckle
Yes, laugh tracks "didn't catch on" … except as a staple of prime time TV for over 50 years LOL
Someone needs to write a sitcom about morticians that uses canned laughter only while they're in the morge. It would give such a dark twist to the formless laughter that you hear ringing out from people long dead.
You giving this for free
...
What?
That thing writes itself! You can give it a great 80s sitcom title like "Dead Tired", "Morgan's Morgue", or "Working Stiffs".
The best parts of comedy series like the Office is the awkward pause, which would be totally ruined by a laugh track.
Well sure because it was documentary style.
But it isn’t awkward when watching alone...
That's why I love The Office, I can choose what is funny or not in the plot
hmmm... yeah... but i wonder... is part of the awkwardness the "missing" of a laugh track? Is part of the funniness of the scene due to defying the audience´s expactation, that in this scene, there would "normally" be a canned laugh. But there isnt. Haha. Kinda like that? Partially?
The UK version is excellent, the US version........pretty damn weak. :/
I’m glad Malcom in the middle doesn’t use laugh tracks
Hill yeah!!
One of my favorite shows. 😁
@@Victoria-so1in was that- was that a pun?
It would be a completely different show with laugh tracks. It wouldn't be funny at all...
Malcom in the Middle is master piece!
"Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.” - Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
DODOFRO
Damn...
thats lowkey kind of creepy
DéJi Vu
Damn man, chill.
@DéJi Vu lmaooo
#whoslaughinnow
Married with Children had to use a laugh track and do a lot of sound editing because the live audience loved the characters and show so much that they would never stop cheering, laughing and reacting.
Yea, it got rediculous with The Fonz on Happy Days, and on Seinfeld they had to tell people to keep quiet when Kramer would pop in.
When it lands on a truly funny joke it seems natural. When the 'joke' isn't funny it's really jaring.
Which means it's either pointless or jarring
You are right about that
The laff box was full of human souls, forced to laugh for eternity.
Forced to laugh at unfunny things too
@@MMMaple (plays laugh track)
dark
(Plays metal guitar)
@@MMMaple Forced To Laugh?
As a kid watching Gilligan’s Island, I said hundreds of times, “That wasn’t really funny so why are all these people laughing?” Now I understand. It was fake laughter.
And where was the live audience? Hiding in the jungle? Swimming offshore? It was such a puzzle!
Married with children had a live audience.
Tim Rohrbach
I knew the laughter was fake and was asking the same thing.
I THINK the big bang theory was the last show that used live audience
I felt the same way about threes company. Especially when there would be laughter or applause at inappropriate moments. I haven't watched that show in years so I'm not sure if it would still be funny to me, but looking back on it now I realized it was the canned laughter. Although.. I think I it may have been filmed in front of a live audience.
one of the first sitcoms i remember watching without a laugh track was Parker Lewis Can't Lose, it was hilarious, energetic, and weird.. felt like i was watching some secret show no one knew about.
I hope laugh tracks never make a comeback. I used to not mind them when I was a kid but now they really get on my nerves so I can't even rewatch some old stuff that I used to enjoy.
ICarly is ruined by it. And the fake oos, ahhs, and whoos are SUPER INFURIATING!
Same here, I used to love Big Bang THeory, but somewhere in the middle they've added too much!
Same here. I used to freaking love shows with Laugh tracks growing up. It was like I didn't even notice the fake laughter. Or my brain just ignored them or something. And then something happened, like a decade ago... I discovered shows like 30 Rock, Arrested Development, It's always sunny in Philadelphia and Curb Your Enthusiasm. And since then, I can't stand laught track shows. I find them SO annoying and just painful to watch nowadays.
@@ItsTheGuy77 It's such a shame too because there are some classic shows that I would've liked to watch if it weren't for the laugh track. Chappelle's Show being number one.
@@TheMrKlump I'll say just because a show used a laugh track doesn't mean its automatically bad. It's just a product of its time. Drake & Josh and the Chappelle Show are some of the best shows that ever aired on TV and are definitely still worth a watch.
I always wondered why we used these laughs tracks. It pissed me off even as a child.
Nwabueze Ozuzu me too!
"HAHA PLEASE LAUGH MONKEY DIS FUNNEH HERD RESPONE BAA BAA HAAA HAA"
~ The jist of the laugh track
Samee, this is why I hated the Big Bang Theory as a kid.
@@josephpak4277 wow I'm old
It's so overused. Someone only has to walk in and say hello, then the laugh track starts. What is funny about someone saying hello?
Americans: invent the laugh track
Mike Royce, some American guy: "People hate being told when to laugh, but you wouldnt understand unless you're American."
I've never understood the appeal of laugh track but its also just not my generations thing so idk
That part confused me more than anything.
Americans over time stopped regularly going out to live or group performances and so we stopped needing a group reaction.
A group can make or break an impression of media and I'm sure you can find tons of stories and stand up about going to a movie and how rude or hilarious the group or individuals were.
Over time we've verged into a individualistic culture which has it's pros and cons just like any system. So now? Def don't want to get told what's funny and additionally these canned laughter shows are frustrating because if your humor is different then you feel isolated. One of the few times I watched big bang theory all the jokes that got laughs weren't funny to me because I knew too much about the subject to find the ignorance humorous. But I did laugh at other places that I just guess wasn't supposed to be funny? (I stopped watching because I'm a nerd and watching people just shit all over nerd culture and go haha social awkwardness isn't my cup of tea)
The lack of laugh track, like is mentioned, also let's jokes fall and keep going, if you don't find a joke funny you don't have to wait for the next. Which can reflect a more rapid pace we like humor now.
Things change, it's a fascinating thing!
@@ShawnxPerez As opposed to awful "jokes" from Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy huh.
In a few shows like friends and Big Bang, they just used the laughter of the actual audience. With only sometimes putting it over the top where audience couldn’t be, like the driving scenes
the driving scenes are still filmed in front of the audience on a soundstage. They're sitting in a car that's been cut in half in front of a green screen.
2030: “Why UA-cam content creators stopped using arrows and pointers for their video thumbnails”
This thumbnail is a good comparison to excessive laugh tracks. Pointers and circles can be useful, but there's nothing in the thumbnail related to the subject matter. It's drawing attention to nothing.
That probably peeked in the mid 2010s
Funny comment.
But wouldn't it be funnier with a laugh track?
@@remkoburger6595
[cue laughter]
@@BonaparteBardithion 9 hours late
Just in time
Actors pausing for laughter just kills my immersion. I hope it stays gone.
me too
that's why I hate friends
Well, they still pause for laughs, bit now thereare none
Wanderer um it’s still there
I like it cuz it gives you time to laugh and process the moment of enjoyment. Now you laugh and/or people around you laugh and you miss a few seconds. when there's two jokes in a row you have to reward.
Actor: shows on screen
Laugh track: HAHAHAHhahhahhHAaHHaHaHaHahahhsfkjsdfhhahhfhHAHAHAHhahahwoooh!
Lmaooo
Or WOOOOHHHHH YEA
Actor: *Says a single word*
Laugh track: HAHAAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAAHKJDSKASo@im()[Wi{omimJIODUN EDOJNO(u*(##@uj(j#@!!!!! THAT WAS SOOO FUNNY!!!!
Well, it worked for Cosmo Kramer....
I'm surprised there wasn't a reference to the psychology of why this used to work. I remember two friends were laughing about something and kept saying "no soap radio" and just kept laughing so I started laughing too and then they laughed even more because they were experimenting with the concept that you can get someone to laugh at anything just by laughing at it with someone else and being totally convinced. Well they got me lol. And I know the laugh track works too, I remember hating everyone loves raynond but I would let out a chuckle now and then just because of the fucking laugh track
It used to work until it was overused
There where even some cartoons who used Laugh Tracks. Like The Flintstones
. I just have always found it annoying.
"Scooby-Doo, Where are you?" used the laugh track in their later episodes, too.
Then there are ones where it works pretty well. i.e: The Pink Panther
I grew up with it. I literally don't notice it...like breathing, if you think about it, you can tell, but if you're not paying attention, you just don't notice.
@@bcubed72 you are right - and that's the problem. You may not notice it anymore than you might notice being infected with a virus, but the process is similar and outcome, in its own way, not so different. My kids now grown up professional, each in their chosen field, grew up without sitcoms - or sweetened carbonated beverages for the same reason. Instead of sitcoms, they were either out enjoying an active life, or pursuing their interests in things that became their life work or thier greatest pleasure. They did not "live" through the lives of a laugh track.
@@ArtifiSir sorry to disagree with you, my friend, but I find the laugh tracks ruined those episodes of The Pink Panther, especially in the case of "SuperPink." (yeah, it was me who "disliked," no offense meant) The original, theatrical released episodes are much funnier, and without having the laugh tracks. ;-}
I'm really happy "Malcolm in the Middle" and "Community" appeared in this video as examples of funny comedies that were so well written and performed they didn't need a laugh track.
THE OFFICE!
Six Seasons and a Movie!
Malcolm in the middle is utter garbage. Hated it as a kid and still hate it.
@@schwarz8614 who hurt you
@@manchesterunitedno7 #andamovie
A quote from the height of the cold war: "Whatever their faults, communists didn't invent canned laughter."
Immortal SoFar Well of course not! The assholes banned comedy.
@@stockinettestitch When did they outright ban comedy?
No laughing allowed
At least one Russian (soviet at the time) comedian used to say that western audiences didn't understand that something is a joke or funny unless comedian himself laughs. Entire generations raised on canned laughter would seem to explain that.
For information - soviet comedies never used canned laughter, Russian shows started using it sometime in early 2000s, copy-pasting western tradition.
@@stockinettestitch I suppose you also think that they swallow whatever propaganda they are fed without considering whether it's true or not. Hmmm?
even worse are the "aw" sounds editor's put in when they want to convince me some particular scene in a sitcom must have felt very heartwarming to me. it feels so controlling.
I remember when I watched Nickelodeon and the laugh track played every single time someone said something and it got annoying
I've run into people like that. If you think this kind of laugh track is annoying, imagine dealing with it in real life.
Bruh I decided to watch a bit of nickelodeon like a few months ago and can confirm this, its like every show was poorly written, had shitty sets, and every five seconds there was a fucking laugh track, its a good thing other sitcoms have stopped using them before they further devolved into that trash
@@hijodelaisla275 And then people get up from the couch and laugh at themselves while talking about anything and expect you to laugh along even if it's not funny. Know those types. They train with tracks.
Zoey 101 was the only show on Nickelodeon I could watch as a teenager because it didnt have a laugh track.
Definitely agree and also the the joke and when they do something is so lame they still use then laugh effect is overrated
I remember when I was a child, I asked so many questions about these laughs, Like: Who are these people? Where are they sitting? Why we don't see them? Is this some theater where the show was filmed? I really can't be able to figure it out.
There's a live studio audience of 300 or 400 people watching the show being taped.
You used to be able to get tickets to see the shows filmed live and be part of the audience.
I remember being very concerned as a kid, that Dr Who's Tardis seemed to lack a bathroom.... very troubling, heh
Those laughs come from the elves living in the TV
You have never heard "The Jeffersons/ Three's Company/Cheers/Family ties/Silver Spoons/Charles in charge/Growing Pains/ect. is tape before a live studio audience" at the beginning of the show?
My Step-Father absolutely detested laugh tracks. Funny thing, he’s the most laid back gentleman you’ll ever meet, but there was a fire in his eyes when he heard a laugh track.
He is based
I hate them too.
He seems cool
I never minded but my mother could not get passed it. Never! She is not sorry to see it fall out of fashion.
Yep. I'm that way with laugh tracks & commercials.
Just get the hell out of my way & let me watch what I want to, without all of the fakery.
Unpopular opinion: a well used laugh track makes a comedy better!!
But a bad laugh track that laughs at questionable material makes is much worse, indeed..
Malcolm in the middle was my childhood, my real introduction to no laugh track.
One of the best comedies ever!!!!
Same was brill
Favorite episode: the one when Malcom saves the school fair by doing all that math, off the top of his head, in front of the whole school/audience. (And ending with knowing a state capitol, and adding, "But that's not math.")
@@skyden24195 my favorite was when the kids pushed the glass cart off the roof to keep Frances from getting in all the trouble. Great show!
Not to age myself, but The Wonder Years was my first introduction into comedies without laugh tracks. I thought having no laugh track made the show more genuine and real.
"It's an American thing - don't tell me what to laugh at."
I'm sorry but I heard a laugh track after this line.
😂🤣
An idea that a very American invention of canned laughter is somehow un-American is indeed laughable
That’s just morbidly obese, man...
Was that some kind of joke? Coz I don't hear anyone laughing.
HAHAHAHAHAH!
"It's an american thing - don't tell me what to laugh at" and at the same time Laugh Track is like the most american thing ever. It was rarely used in other countries.
@Salvador Luna my opinion is laugh tracks aren't funny ever
@Salvador Luna I remember one year when Cartoon Network was running Fullmetal Alchemist and for April Fool's Day they inserted fart noises into the episodes. The problem was they added those noises into pretty much EVERY break between lines of dialogue, completely overdoing it.
Laugh tracks are the same way. The problem never was them being used, it was them being used *too often.* Live audience reactions were unpredictable (an editor's worst nightmare) but that's part of what made them authentic. If you're recording in front of a live audience (cheers if you are, pun intended) BUT are intentionally prompting the studio audience to laugh (cry, gasp, aww, etc.) then it's not actually an authentic reaction, and the broadcast audience at home WILL eventually learn how to tell.
I was thinking the exact same thing!
MrGlasspider Finally Americans are embracing the British ‘no laugh track’ format of comedy.
“Write a compelling script, deliver it with quality actors, edit it together with precision edits, and your audience will naturally give you the response you’re looking for.” -Zack Synder
Snyder*
Too bad he couldn't do this with his DCU movies.
Funny how the quality of the shows and their jokes got better once that god awful laugh track was removed
yep. laugh tracks were certainly often used as crutches for bad jokes. remove those crutches, and that forces the jokes to stand on their own merits.
It’s interesting just how painfully obvious a crutch it is when it’s taken out. Ever see clips of “Friends” or “The Big Bang Theory” without laughter? They’re akward and incredibly dry. Then on the other hand, you have a show like “MASH”, which, if you watch without the laughter, you’d never even know it was supposed to be there.
Aaron Stark that’s true to an extent, especially for the Big Bang theory. However, for shows like friends the show is designed to have laugh tracks so the actors pause when there is supposed to be a laugh track making it more awkward watching it without a laugh track
Some shows work well without it, Seinfeld is funny either way. But not all shows are that well written.
Today's TV is truly horrendous. AWFUL. Last good TV show was The Office, but it went downhill wh en Michael Scott left. Friends, I Love Lucy and others were live. If they used a laugh track, it was only to enhance. I love the old TV shows... there was a sweetness about th em and they were truly funny. Done with today's awful TV.
Theory: when you die your laugh gets added to the sitcom laugh track
Then your soul is trapped...forced to watch each recording.
So else they dont use mine or it will reach an end when i die because my laugh is terrible
Theory:a horror movie with a laugh track would be hilarious
this is, at least partially, an SCP article
@cumquatrct3 a trained leprechaun to change the reels
The funniest jokes are the ones so subtle, you almost miss them. Laugh tracks ruin that moment of 'wait, what?'.
You put it in WORDS! God
Like how you notice from consistently watching but it is never explicitly pointed out in Trailer Park Boys how they are always using an old jug or bottle as a cup. That is one of my favorite running jokes throughout the show.
Paige Connelly yep
In friends I never get tired of the laughs, I think it kept the thing more live.
If you appreciate shows like that, then I would recommend Arrested Development. It’s full of subtle jokes and callbacks but it also has enough prominent ones to keep you watching until the very end
That was fascinating and had a lot of information I wanted to know. I remember reading articles in the '80s that dismissed the laugh tracks as cheesy, hollow, and joke-killing in rather strident terms, so the tide was already starting to turn. Just one FYI: the Bill Cosby Show ran from 1970-1971, not 1961.
Yeah- and the narrator told us that the show was considered to have '"failed." This "failure" of a show would've had to have been on for 11 seasons.
"if it doesn't get the laughs it deserves"
maybe it wasn't funny?
"No, wee need sweetening"
Money is sweet but more money with less work is sweetening.
@ericj305 ok boomer
@ericj305 Millenials, amirite?!?
*laugh track while the actors awkwardly stand still and do nothing for 3 seconds*
Boomers will take literally any chance they can to blame others for the terrible things they created, popularised and forced until something collapsed.
@ericj305 baka
@ericj305 Boomer is a state of mind.
It's you. You're the Boomer.
In Short: It's annoying and makes it less funny
TheBlueArmageddon well stared my good man.
TheBlueArmageddon Only now because we're used to it not being there. If you were 30 in the 90s it'd seems normal
@@PlsWaLuigiDomMe if you were 30 in the early 1900's, having cocaine in everything would seem normal
@@PlsWaLuigiDomMe : Yeah, it was a familiar thing growing up but imagine having a laugh track on your favorite old comedy movies. It would be disastrous.
Seriously, the funniest sitcoms didn’t/don’t use a laugh track
Now, how do we stop audiences from clapping or whooping every time a character enters a scene???
You mean the live studio audience which this video didn't even cover.
HONEY IM HOME!
Opens door and enters the scene
Hey everybody! I'll be in my BOO-OOOTH!!!
What is interesting is the possibility that the "Laff Box" and subsequent laugh tracks actually had a peer pressure effect that could manipulate a social value system in the audience.
Everything has been a lie. At least I know Scooby Do was filmed before a live studio audience. No way those were fake laughs.
Rut row.
Okay gang, lets split up and look for Laughs!
"Ohhh no! NOt us. Right scoob?" "RAH! Ras righ!"
"would you do it for a... Laughy Track?"
Nope. It was filmed before an animated studio audience.
I feel bad for the animators that must have been hard
The live studio audience are they just other staff members gathered to fill in the laughter or they actually brought in fans to watch it?.
“Americans don’t like being told what to do”
Neither does anyone else, I think even more so in some other cultures.
Is this comment ironic? I’d like to think so.
Also "America" invents the machine that tells you when to laugh😂
And it was American comedies and sitcoms that popularised the laugh track in the first place
I think the laugh track was almost purely an american thing...
In soviet Russia there was no additional synthetic laughter in translations, only an audience reaction if it was some live show. In the nineties we’ve got foreign content on tv and met this added laughter. Most common reaction was “jeez, are they really so stupid so they need a reminder to laugh?”
just imagine, everyone recorded for the laughter has passed away and so now in all of the shows you are listening to dead people laughing
Nate Movies
Yeah, ever watch a movie from the 60s or earlier. There all the *actors* are deceased.
That's deep, yo.
@@judsongaiden9878 no it's not.
@@crisleroi299 lol why did you bother replying to him "no its not."
I hear dead people
The laff box has another great feature: add a laugh track to an inappropriate moment in a drama and it adds a whole new dynamic to the show.
Yeah maybe, but what happens when it’s used every bloody second by an unimaginative minority, Tell-A-Vision is obsolete
Seinfeld didn’t have a “laugh track”, they had an actual studio audience who they played to so those laughs were genuine. They would actually rewrite lines on the spot that didn’t receive big laughs. Much different than shows with no audience that pipe in the laugh track after the fact.
friends was live too aside from drama episodes
dean Yah but they would drug the audience so they would laugh more
It wasn't either / or. Mostly it was audience AND a laugh track.
Yes they had an audience but they also had a laugh track too. That's why it's called sweetening, they make the audience's reactions sweeter by adding in a laugh track.
And "Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience" didn't mean that they weren't going to sweeten it after the fact, almost all did.
Caden Rolland Seinfeld only did it for consistency when they were putting together multiple takes for a scene.
D T Later Seinfeld used canned laughs. Early seasons had a true audience
When you don't watch enough sitcoms to realize they stopped laugh tracks
I haven't watched TV in like 10 years, so I didn't even know they went away either, but I say good, always hated them.
Seriously, I think only really old people watch tv now. Like 60+
So true. I really did not knownthey stopped completely by now, untill this video! Shows you how much of that stuff I watch.
@@BoqPrecision thats a blatant lie. Only the young people dont watch TV. Everyone past 30 watches it.
@@gamingnubs7628 I'm 32 and don't watch any...so seems like you're the liar.
Almost every other country for decades: Frick off with your laugh tracks.
Some dude in America who doesn't wanna be told when to laugh: It's an American thing.
Every other country: -_-
Other Americans: -_-
exactly what i thought
Wait, there are other countries aside from America?
Revolution I'm pretty sure New York and California, but that's about it.
This video and channel feels very US-centric, or as I've coined the term as: "US-default". That is the mentality that everything, unless otherwise stated, is USA. That everyone is from USA, and that you can speak to anyone as if they're from USA.
Some minor examples are when people references historic events. A Brit would call their civil war the "British civil war" on a video, because the audience are from across the world. But an American would can their civil war the "civil war", because everything is about USA, right? - This video shows this example by reference the "history of TV", when it's just the history of US TV (which might coincide with some other countries too).
This isn't an exclusive American thing either. These ways of speaking does spread to other people around the world, and they also speak in this US-default mentality. Examples are the Brit that said the weight in stones (very British), but gave it in pounds for their "international viewers" (aka USA), while the majority of the world uses metric. Another example is (paraphrasing here), that "Bruce Lee is China's answer to Chuck Norris ... or rather that Chuck Norris is the rest of the world's answer to Bruce Lee", because Chuck Norris is an international citizen or something.
It's stupid and should stop.
My problem with using laugh tracks wasn't the laugh track itself. If used appropriately, it would have people laughing at the same times that I was laughing (mostly). The problem came when the laughter began to be used more and more often, when nothing funny was happening on screen. No jokes, just what would've been ordinary dialog.
Dad - Hey kids, what are we having for supper? *chuckles*
Kids - Let's have hot dogs! *laughter*
Dad - Mmm, I love hot dogs! *louder laughter*
One kid - Aww, hot dogs are boring! *mix of chuckles and laughter*
Mom walks in - So what are we having for supper? *riotous extended laughter*
"In recent years, the laugh track has been used less and less as sitcoms generally have decreased in popularity"
Taking a more optimistic view, perhaps it's been used less and less because the writing has improved to the point where *the jokes are actually funny so you don't need to be told when to laugh*
If the writers know how to write better jokes then why are sitcoms decreasing in popularity? Wouldn't they be increasing? Not saying sitcoms today are bad but if you were to ask anyone to list the top 10 sitcoms of all the only one that would make most people's list that is currently on the air is The Simpsons and that's a technicality since it's been on for 30 years and it's first 10 are considered by most to be superior.
Nope, definitely not.
@@TheAtkey I think it's human nature to list old shows which are not anymore as your favourites, also with more channels and streaming services no show will have the universal appeal that the likes of friends had. but even so there have been loads of great recent sitcoms (dependent on taste) Brooklyn 99 for example is really funny. however my personal favourite American sitcom remains Fraser, good sitcoms have died a death in the UK however but a flame that shines twice as bright burns for half as long.
@@TheAtkey Over time we have seen more Dramedy shows of which there are many current and successful ones (e.g. Orange is the New Black drove this for Netflix content but then there is Grace and Frankie, Sex Education and many others in this format). Dramedy shows also allow producers try to add more meaning and cover topics whilst avoid offending different groups of people.
In terms of recent sitcoms there is also The Good Place and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt which both ended this year. I think many would have The Good Place on their top 10 list. With the lockdown resurgence of shows like New Girl and Community being rewatched and also discovered by many, we may (and hopefully) see an increase in comedy shows on air. Likely that we will have movies or feature length special episodes for the finished shows that have become popular again too like the rallying of #sixseasonsandamovie for Community.
True and it worked!
the reason the laugh box is so secretive is because it is actually just 32 people squeezed in a box and being told to laugh
Haha
it was the brains of several people in jars, connected to various apparatus that when the peddle was pressed would zap the brains and interact with the hardware to create the laughs. A truly horrific device. That's why Andy Kaufman called it dead people laughing. Because it was always true. It wasn't just recordings of now dead people, but psuedo-undead preserved people laughing.
I'm glad that animated sitcoms ie. Family Guy, Futurama, Simpsons, South Park, etc. decided not to use a laugh track. I think that's maybe part of the reason why those shows lasted so long.
I think the laugh track started waning in popularity because people didn't want to be reminded of an audience watching. they wanted to see a show that took place inside a bubble or a universe where no one is aware that they are a character on stage. And if they do break the fourth wall, they want it done more intellectually or intentionally (like Malcolm in the Middle did).
Sheldon: hey Leonard
Leonard: yeah sheldon?
Sheldon: *Bazinga*
*Universal applause and laughter*
*Several Emmies*
*The actor for Sheldon got paid 1 million dollars per episode*
dumb people watching fake smart people with a laugh track, very american.
Sheldon: bazinga
Jim parsons: S t O n K s
“Hey Leonardo Da Vinci”
“Yes Shel Silverstein?”
*”BEELZEBUB”*
Okay, but Jim Parsons is a talented guy who was cast in a bad show that got supremely popular.
I always felt like the first 2.5 - 3 seasons were written to be smart but as the show got more popular the "smart people are also humorous" aspect turned into "smart person says big science word, hahaha" so that more people could watch it. One of the many reasons I gave up on it.
“Those are dead people laughing. Don't you know those people are dead?" -Andy Kaufman
Devon Cripsy so? We also watch classics when the actors aren’t around anymore 🤷♂️
Isn't it like the 1950's? Or am I wrong?
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@@NameBrand__ yeah that.
Really didn't expect to be linked to A Funny but that was a nice twist
@@valentinpiombo2310 that is a false equivalency. A fake audience recording edited into a show is not the same as a real actor.
I hate laugh tracks so much. Makes shows unwatchable.
Makes the jokes forced and really just flats it out. What
AHAHHAHAHHAHA
There was a sitcom with Aston Kutcher I saw on Netflix I turned off because of the laugh track. The show failed and I personally blame the laugh track.
@Divinital You can literally tell people ages in the comments
My mom keeps trying to get me to watch MASH but the laugh tracks just kill the humour for me
i dont really care, people nowadays is like, "ugh can laughs is so wrong, it steps over my rights" and yet nobody cares about war, injustice and hunger in the world
If you watch pirated movies you get a genuine laugh track
Hahahahahhhahhh
@smelly_meat boss but for real, who actually watches recordings from a cinema? if i want to go there, not that i could atm, i'll go there for the expirence... it's kinda like watching pov footage of a amusement park instead of going there yourself, not that this is possible either... oh maybe there is a reason now why someone would seek out those kind of videos and rips ^^
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 people watch those recordings not because they want to but because it's the only way to watch a newly released movie without going to the cinema
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 You don't watch the recording of the cinema just because, you watch it because the movie just came out in theaters and digital copies aren't available yet, also its free.
Obviously if a real digital copy was available you'd watch that instead of the footage from a cinema showing.
@@denisl2760 of course, but i'm not that horny about a new movie to go through that... if it's only available in cinema and i "have to" watch it, i'll go there... but i guess at the moment the whole cinema discussion is a whole subject for itself ;)
I glad they stopped using the laugh track it insults your intelligence.
Not really if anything the laugh track makes you feel like you’re actually there
Yes! It's like the people who are making the show think we're to stupid to realize when something's supposed to be a joke.
I didn't even know that America had stopped using laugh tracks.
@@Jinaria101 how? it's not like there's a bunch of people standing around laughing in every scene at every thing?
Odoury
I’ve never been to a live stage show before but hearing a laugh track makes me feel like I’m actually there watching one
My pet peeve is videos that say "why" something and then just give the history.
I guess it makes it sound simpler and less "boring."
With the state of education today I would not be surprised if the young people that made this truly think they answered the "why".
@@gps9715 I get the sentiment, but don't blame it on education. Education (outside of the US at least) has not declined in any way. You could argue the attention span of people who watch videos has declined and that's fair, but a blanket statement about "education today" is a bit too vague if you ask me, especially if you haven't been in contact with students or teachers.
Had the exact same feeling
Thank you for saving 7 minutes of my time then
Chuck Lorre: "I do not, and have never, sweetened my shows with fake laughs. I've always thought it was pretty hateful and a self-defeating practice."
Big Bang Theory: "I'm gonna put a canned laughter when someone says a long scientific word."
Big bang theory is crap
The first few seasons of BBT was good and then it went downhill.
Hey penny bazinga haha so funny
I've always hated laugh tracks, I'm glad shows are ditching them now
Me too
It's why I don't like Jessie anymore
@@tourmelion9221 Plenty of other things wrong with Jessie.
I just LOVE the awkwardness of The Office in moments where you would EXPECT a laugh track.
Sometimes awkwardness is needed. I love it more.
The US Office is dogshit
Connor no one asked
It makes it funnier. Same with Parks and Recreation.
that might be why i hate it and have never understood why.... it's like a similar thing when all the late night hosts where first hosting at home with no one there.... it was incredibly fucking awkward for the first episode, because they were still used to having it, but they seem to be getting the idea now...
Nickelodeon and Disney used an ample amount of laugh tracks in most of their shows from 2000-2010
I only watched cartoons on that two kids channels
They still do. Not joking, watch any of their recent sitcoms. (tbh there not that bad but still)
Zoey 101 and Lizzie McGuire never used laugh tracks and yet they are the two most successful original comedy shows respectively in Nickelodeon and Disney.
CanDo Autistic I disagree here Hannah Montana was the most successful Disney show in my opinion
@@mathautist factsssss
I never noticed them when I was a kid, but when I did start noticing, I could no longer take watching a show with laugh tracks.
I went to a taping of Married With Children, specifically the high school reunion episode. You’re sitting there and above you, hanging from the ceiling are these microphones. When there’s a joke or a gag, we found ourselves laughing out loud even if it wasn’t that funny. Seeing the microphones pointing down at you makes you feel compelled to over do the laughter and be heard.
Also wasn't Married with Children known for being a raucous crowd where people went to drunk or is that a myth?
marsneedstowels it’s a lie
Live audience laughter is contagious and a great experience but when you're home and there is no audience or the pretense of one it's weird like adding a track on Anchorman or Bridesmaids. In the theater you get that live audience experience but at home canning those laughs would be really odd.
@@marsneedstowels Nope. No drunks. BUT...the mood was casual. Most of the action took place on the stage to the right of the Bundy living room. During set up, Christina Applegate (Kelly Bundy) was resting on the Bundy couch. Couple dudes would yell, "Kelly! Wake up!" She would playfully reply, "Shuttup..." That's about the extent of the raucousness.
It reminds me of how Monsters Inc. started capturing laughs for energy production.
That’s why Disney channel has so much energy they have a laugh track in every show
Oh
This comment here is tops 👌
"Mike Royce once said, people don't like to be told how to react"
"Anyway, please 'like' our video :)"
That's very interesting. But it feels more like a recommendation to like and subscribe rather then having fake ppl laugh and make you think ppl are entertained
AHH ... totally went over my head :) lol
😂 At least they say please
Asking and telling are different.
Again. Big Bang and most sitcoms where shot in front of a LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE and not a laugh track.
I love many of these shows, but I have absolutely no nostalgia for the laugh track. I think the jokes are way funnier without a cue they’re there.
"The laughter was inconsistent and the timing was off." Almost like it was...fake? I'm so glad this is going away. If a joke isn't funny it deserves to fail.
Pretty sure it was saying the real laughter was inconsistent because they recorded the scene multiple times over the course of a day. So the laughs didnt always line up, similar to how clocks and outfits and other minor details dont always line up between cuts. So they used laugh tracks to fix that
@@jatzi1526 The real laughter was inconsistent to their vision of how it should play out because in their vision, the jokes were funnier than they actually were, and the live audience was enjoying the show rather than waiting to go home.
@@TheReaverOfDarkness It's also that the laughing audio doesn't line up correctly because angles were filmed at different times and then cut together. Even though laugh tracks are already jarring, it would be even more so if the laughing randomly changed to a completely different sound as soon as the camera cut away - would defeat the purpose of creating an imaginary "audience" watching the show with you.
I laughed and they recorded me laughing five times. Then they tried to join those five videos together. Of course some inconsistencies will occur, since it’s all edited, but I still did a real laugh.
@@CartoonyAndor Wow that's hilarious and why am I not surprised
For me, canned laughter has always been a vomit switch that successfully ruined even the most hilarious jokes. I just hate it so much.
Funny how getting rid of laugh tracks was called "an American thing ... we don't like to be told what to laugh at"". Lol. I always thought of laugh tracks as very American.
@@patrickpaganini not to mention, the laff track is invented by an American lmao
@@v3xman My Dad's American, too. He's one of the earlier boomers, and he *still* didn't like laugh tracks even when I was a kid in the 90s.
Picturing The Sopranos with a laugh track. " Who ate all the Gabagool.?" Cue laugh track.
“(insert programme name here) is filmed before a live audience!”.
Well - they couldn’t film it in front of a dead one!
>insert laugh track after joke
...or would they? .... 👀 ....🧟
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A key aspect wasn't covered: comedies using laugh tracks are written in a style that replicates the live theatre experience, including a shared audience response, the invisible fourth wall separating the audience from the scene, and actors playing to the audience and holding for laughs. Single camera shows are replicating a more cinematic, real life experience (even if it is full of unrealistic, outlandish events, like in the Office) and so the storytelling style is different. Single camera storytelling is currently in fashion, and so no laugh track is needed. Aaron Sorkin's first TV series, Sports Night, featured the disappearing laugh track, where they gradually reduced its use over the lifetime of the series to (I believe) zero. Sorkin's writing for the series with its rapid, elaborate dialogue was a better fit for the single camera format and so worked better without a laugh track.
I'm fine with laugh tracks in older shows. They're products of their time, so I can overlook it. Seinfeld and Frasier are still funny.
also I think guys from Seinfeld said laugh tracks weren't necessarily to sweeten but more because shows started to be complicated when ti comes to shooting, editing, splicing different parts and takes together, so it needed some canned laughters to smoothen these edits
Seinfeld is the most non funny show and standup of all time.
@@steveschu you're obviously in the minority there, given Seinfeld is the richest comedian in human history because of that show and his standup.
@@whatsupinspace854 that doesnt mean shit
I honestly like the laugh track, I'm not sure why but it adds something the scene feels kinda empty without it. Maybe it's just because I'm used to it in a way or something.
Yes, but also I don't notice it when it's missing. I never would have guessed that "the Office" has no laugh track. Now I have to go back and re-watch it.