its so ubiquitous it feels like it was a requirement…
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.”
Filmed in front of people who are being told when to laugh just doesn’t sound as good, but that’s showbiz
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.
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.
The live 30 rock episodes were amazing
In friends the writers and producers are present during the live audience shoots they look at how the live audience reacts to the jokes. If the reactions are mild they take a break and brainstorm on how to make the punchline better. They even asked the audience what went wrong with the joke. I don’t think they shoot in sequence either.
Here’s the documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBScomgeX5E
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.
Filmed before a studio audience that met an untimely demise.
Clerks is drawn by a live studio audience.
Thats the ugliest bong that Ive ever seen!
Good question, and interesting answers
Also small opportunity to promote !showsandmovies@lemm.ee
Here’s how friends shoot their episodes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBScomgeX5E
