I can't stand the laugh track. I think Friends is one of the top 5 best sitcoms of all-time, and it doesn't need the laugh track--it brings it a peg closer to the other ones out there that are mostly total garbage. I wish they would kill it--that's one thing I love about the Simpsons (another top-fiver)--no L.T. Can they only do that with cartoons?
Laugh Track
Mar 15, 2002, 4:12 PM ET29 posts by 20 postersalt.tv.friends
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Friends is shot in front of a live audience, so I don't think it's a track...
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"Jan Cardon" wrote:
I was just assuming, but I'd be shocked if it's not a track because it sounds so canned, and also they must have scenes where they do multiple takes, and no matter how funny something is, the audience can't be laughing hysterically on cue the 5th time they've seen the same joke.
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It is shot in front of a live audience, but apparently quite a bit of it is L.T. I think. I remember seeing a documentary on friends and it showed them adding different types of laughs...You should have seen how many they had on the computer! I didn't use to think about it, but when I counted how many times people laughed, it seemed inhuman, it was after almost every line!
You've gotta watch the behind the scenes download it from a DownloadFriends channel in DalNet, it shows you how it is done. And the laugh tracks, I think that they add to the show, cause otherwise it can be like a movie or I don't know a soap, this makes it more sit-comy IMHO.
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It's also handy if the show doesn't get many laughs from the real audience...
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On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 22:48:45 -0000, "HD" wrote:
The only Live-In-Front-of-A-Studio-Audience show that I know of that DOESN'T use a laugh track in "Everybody Loves Raymond". And I think it shows by having a more genuine feeling when the laughs come in. If a joke falls flat, you don't get a canned laugh pumped in, so you don't feel manipulated, IMO.
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I love ELR! Its definately an equal with Friends. Last two seasons its been much more funnier though. Man is Ray Ramono(sp?) hilarious! Reminds me of David Schwimmer.
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S�ledes skrev [email] (Steve A Simon) i alt.tv.friends 15 Mar 2002 21:50:45 GMT:
Friends *is* shot in front of a live audience, but the laughs *can* be edited or replaced with tracks, especially in case of too much laughter, where the dialog gets drowned out.
Hey, I've seen it on tv, so it got to be true... 8-)
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There's an "extra" behind-the-scenes segment on the "best of" DVD set. It talks about how they need to use a laugh track to replace the live laugh from time to time. I understand they try to use the live laugh as much as possible, but sometimes it muddles the dialogue. Also, if they screw up the first take, the response on the . . . oh let's say the fifth take is unlikely to be as big as it would have been if they had done it right on the first take.
Sometimes those are live laughters but sometimes they are not for some reasons, like they want to keep the plot or guest star in secret or the live laughters didn't do well. anyways, it's kind of a tradition for a sitcom to have laughters. I would feel weird if there are no laughters in friends.
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I feel the same way. "Watching Ellie" , for example, is a hilarious show(funnier than friends this season) and yet it has no laughter...its a little wierd in that respect...
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I learned in a media class that this one production company provides most shows with laughtracks and that it's almost always the same one. It was taken from 1920s vaudeville and so some of the laughing people on those tracks are most likely dead. Kinda weird, isn't it?
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I can hear the new promos now. "Watch 'Friends'! The show that is so funny it makes dead people laugh."
How is this possible? The laugh tracks on today's sitcoms are in stereo and have very good sound quality.
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"Sydney Assbasket " wrote in message news:[email]...
It could be worse, Friends could have the same "laugh track" as M*A*S*H had. Thank god that on the season one DVD release you can turn off the canned laughter.
It's a combination of laugh tracks and real people.. except that they also have "professional sitcom watchers" (for lack of better term) spread out among the studio audience. What they do is laugh/act surprised on cue, as to get the rest of the studio audience going.
Some of the jokes you *could* laugh at even after several takes, plus they don't always have a lot of re-takes. I remember sitting in the studio audience for the S6 finale.. Monica had laid out candles all over her apartment, ready to "propose" to Chandler. They had curtains and stuff blocking the stage so that we would be surprised at the sight. But there's no way any of us would be surprised after the first 3 takes. Yet I still heard people oohing and aahing around me. They had to have been paid to do that.
For the latest season, I don't know if they're still being filmed in front of a studio audience... I tried to get tickets to the filming, and received a letter saying that they're not doing that anymore.. and this was before any of the new episodes were being filmed for the season.
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Marita Bakken attended a taping of the show last week.
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You're right that they don't give out regular free tickets anymore. The only people allowed inside the studio these days are VIPs and people with so-called "connections" with people working on the show. I was at a taping last Friday, and there were just VIPs and specially invited military people and firemen there.
As for the laugh track, the comedian who walks around in the audience told us to laugh as hard as we could even when the director, Kevin Bright, started to film the scene for the fifth or the sixth time. Of course you laugh the most at the first take, but they constantly change the lines in order to make the scene funnier. Also, Matthew Perry came over to the audience and asked us to laugh as hard as we could at a special scene, so we tried our best to do what he said.
and i thought i was the only person who hates laugh track. it's just so bloody phony and most of all annoying! however, since i'm into seinfeld big time and sometime i do forget the annoying laugh track, though it hasn't worked with other sitcoms. i do think they should axe the LT all together.
In article , 'Postal Employee Newman' wrote:
Like so many other things, it's not the existence of a laugh track, it's the over use of it that's the problem. The earlier seasons of M*A*S*H are almost unwatchable due to ham handed use of a laugh track.
Cynically Depressed wrote:
It was even more off-putting in MASH because it didn't look like there was anywhere to put a studio audience. I think hearing audience reaction made more sense back in the day of shows like The Honeymooners where you had the feel of watching live comic theater. Now these shows are so highly produced that it's not much different than watching a short humorous film. The laugh track to me is insulting and distracting.
Cynically Depressed wrote:
M*A*S*H was shown in Britain on the BBC totally without a laugh track.
Tennant Stuart
Tennant Stuart wrote:
I don't understand--then how could you tell the funny parts? ;-)
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We can't, so we just watch to see Lt.Dish!
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"Tennant Stuart":
Same for Germany (dubbed of course).
Christoph
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"Tennant Stuart":
Not really. Well, at least MASH was dubbed in a time when translators still had humour, creativity and pride -- or it was just that the TV stations had enough money. And there are not so many "language jokes" that can't be translated in MASH like in e.g. Friends. That's where they normally keep the original laugh tracks and you wonder why the audience is laughing as there's nothing funny, only if you translate it backwards you might find the joke.
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In article , Christoph =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E4per?= wrote:
Adeline LeBorgne once got upset because in 309 "TOW the Football", Phoebe ate meat at Thanksgiving, which was understandable since...
PHOEBE: Mmm, this stuffing is amazing!
..had been dubbed as...
PHOEBE: Mmm, cette dinde est vraiment d�licieuse!
..which means in English...
PHOEBE: Mmm, that turkey is really delicious!
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