its so ubiquitous it feels like it was a requirement…

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    17 days ago

    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.”

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      Filmed in front of people who are being told when to laugh just doesn’t sound as good, but that’s showbiz

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      Many that were filmed in front of a live audience still had a laugh track. Either to correct them not laughing or not laughing enough at the clearly excellently written jokes, or laughing at things they weren’t supposed to was removed or dampened.