There were accusations of using a laugh track - recorded laughter added in post-production - so having authentic laughter was a selling point if you’d stumbled across a show coming on after something else.

I’m sure those ones also used laugh tracks, because they didn’t say “Actual audience laughter.”

It is actually a completely different kind of production. A modern TV show is made in hundreds of takes in any order with loads of repeats, and the result is then cut to make the final show.

Filmed with a live audience implies one more or less continuous take, in order, no repeats, and each actor has to be able to run his or her part perfectly, know every position and line.

That is quite tough in comparison to modern methods, and I am convinced that most modern TV or movie actors would have difficulties with that concept.

Authenticity.

Shows with a laugh track are basically telling you that the writers producers think certain jokes are funny. And fuck that noise.

Shows without a laugh track generally get laughs because an audience is having fun.

If they didn’t announce it, I’d assume the studio audience had died.

Clerks is drawn by a live studio audience.

Good question, and interesting answers

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Here’s how friends shoot their episodes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBScomgeX5E