Do you like laugh tracks on television shows?
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ANSWERS: 13
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I love em! Especially when one person keeps laughing after everyone else stops. That's my favorite!
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I don't, it's just trying to pressure you into laughing, it's really phony. It won't let the jokes be funny in and of themselves.
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When they're done right, laugh tracks can be effective. Like on Friends, where they tape before a live audience and use the actual audience reactions. You can tell that it's somewhat real because the really funny jokes get a rolling laughter and the so-so jokes just get a giggle. On the other hand, it gets annoying if the laugh track is totally fake, like on that show with the two dads, where there's the sound of laughter even if the jokes are so unfunny.
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Right, half the time the stuff they say isn't funny when they play the tracks. Then again the stuff that I find funny isn't laughed at...hmm. This makes me wonder if my sense of humor is off or if broadcasters just want us to think what they find funny is. No, I don't like laugh tracks, unless of course they are what I am laughing at.
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Yes. That's how I know when to laugh.
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I don't mind them. The only thing I mind about laugh tracks is if I'm watching a show with laugh tracks, and someone else watching starting complaining about them. Then they start to bug me, when I didn't mind them before someone negatively pointed them out.
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No, I find it insulting and at the same time distracting, too many times the track is laughing uncontrollably at something which is not that funny.
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On the first series of Friends, you could tell that they didn't use laugh tracks because you could hear individual people laughoing and often there would be one who was very distinctive, much like you find in real life when sharing a joke with your mates. And just like when someone else is laughing, it was contagious. Compare this to the later series, the laughs all blended into one and it sounded artificial, and just annoyed me. On the Scrubs episode when JD has a sequence where his day is filmed as a live sitcom, it really highlights how fake sitcoms actualy are, with very bright colours etc, though that was actually filmed in front of a live audience, so the laughter was probably partially real. I once saw a sitcom being filmed and in the ceiling of the audience, there were big lights that flash up LAUGH when the actors say a joke - I can't see that the scriptwriters are doing well if the audience has to be told when to laugh.
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No they irritate the backside off me, and its used mostly when nothing remotely funny is happening anyway. By the way I think American shows are the worst for this.. Sorry no offence meant tho!
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No. That is why The Office is such a great show. The ackward silences add so much humor to it. Laugh tracks tell you when to laugh and I would rather choose myself.
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I don't.I work behind the scenes in movies and TV and I can see that it degrades the show by trying to get people to laugh at things that are not funny.When shooting or rehearsing, many of us can only roll our eyes and sigh at how bad the acting is and how stupid the lines really are.After 10 or more takes the actor can no way create the effect of being truly funny unless they are exceptionally good actors.Laugh tracks are response techniques such as the Pavlovian Response to make dogs salivate.If you were on the shooting set you would see the same.
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I rarely notice them, but when I do, I just think its really cheesy.
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No, when I actually notice them they bug the crap out of me!!
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