Laugh Track: Difference between revisions

* The Singaporean television show ''Kids Talk Back'', [[They Copied It Now It Sucks|like a talk show version of]] ''[[Kids Say the Darndest Things]]'', was particularly bizarre in this respect. A laugh track had been added to the interviews with children, which made it seem like the audience was brutally taking the mickey out of hapless 4-8-year-olds who were unaware that they were being manipulated into saying things for the sake of good television.

* Both ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' and ''[[Muppets Tonight]]'' used laugh tracks. Justified in that both shows were presented as [[Show Within a Show|shows being performed for an audience]], and it would be entirely impossible to film this show in front of an audience due to the special effects and the puppeteers. Also, unlike most others, the laugh track sounded ''so'' real, people ''actually try to buy tickets for a taping!''

** Actually, some of it ''was'' real laughter. Apparently the stagehands' favorite skits were with the Swedish Chef and would crowd the set to watch the taping. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8UE8ADvF_s Listen very closely] and you can hear a really loud laugh and somebody clapping their hands that doesn't match up with the laugh track

** The [[Steve Martin]] episode was originally supposed to dispense with the laugh track and feature only the cast laughing ([[It Makes Sense in Context|The Muppets had to cancel the show to audition new acts, but Steve Martin decided to perform anyway]]). However, the Muppeteers' laughter at some of Steve's antics was so loud it actually had to replaced with a laugh track to avoid drowning out the act itself.

* Every [[CBS]] sitcom, even in the modern era where shows like ''[[The Office]]'' and ''[[Modern Family]]'' have been critically acclaimed and immensely successful without the use of one. In fact, CBS is the only network that still uses laugh tracks with any frequency.

 

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