Joey McIntyre is in a new sit com...

[decemberwedding07]

Laugh tracks are the reason I don't watch The Big Bang Theory.

[Velar Fricative]

Aug 1, 2014 12:15:18 GMT -5 decemberwedding07 said:

Laugh tracks are the reason I don't watch The Big Bang Theory.

They use a real audience.

[Velar Fricative]

Oh, and I don't care how awful this show is, I will watch anything for Joey Mac.

[Velar Fricative]

Aug 1, 2014 12:24:53 GMT -5 @mrswindycity said:

Aug 1, 2014 12:15:43 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

They use a real audience.

They have got to at least amplify it or double it or do something because that shit sounds SO fake. How can you laugh after every line? I actually saw some youtube clip a while back that removed the laughing and it was so awkward.

I know, I remember that I was surprised to hear that it was a live audience. But the laughs aren't enough for me make me stop watching, I have no shame in admitting that I love that show.

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

Anytime I see a show with a laugh track now, I assume it's going to not be funny. I don't need a group of people to laugh at the pauses in the script where someone THINKS a joke is funny.

[StrawberryBlondie]

The laugh track was one of my biggest hurdles to loving The IT Crowd.

[msmerymac]

Aug 1, 2014 12:24:53 GMT -5 @mrswindycity said:

Aug 1, 2014 12:15:43 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

They use a real audience.

They have got to at least amplify it or double it or do something because that shit sounds SO fake. How can you laugh after every line? I actually saw some youtube clip a while back that removed the laughing and it was so awkward.

If you are in the studio audience, they tell you when to laugh. Trust me, it gets old after you've been here for 2.5 hours, watching them run through the scenes again and again. They also have an audience warm-up person, who is usually a mediocre comedian, to try to get you to warm up your laughing before the fucking 3 hour taping. I wouldn't be surprised if they loop the laughter, though, to "enhance" it. 

[gpw]

Sadly, I think Joey peaked early in life.

[NewOrleans]

I saw New Kids open for Tiffany in 6th grade, before they made it huge.

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

Aug 1, 2014 13:30:10 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

Aug 1, 2014 12:35:01 GMT -5 lyssbobiss, Command, B613 said:

Anytime I see a show with a laugh track now, I assume it's going to not be funny. I don't need a group of people to laugh at the pauses in the script where someone THINKS a joke is funny.

Have you read Lullaby, by Chuck Palahniak? There's this part in there where he points out that a lot of the laugh tracks used in the 70s and 80s were the same laugh tracks that had been recorded in the 50s when TV first came out, so when you're watching Full House, it's dead people laughing at those jokes. :s

No!  Makes sense, though.  I knew no living sane person would think Joey Gladstone was funny.

[Velar Fricative]

Aug 1, 2014 13:04:32 GMT -5 gpw said:

Sadly, I think Joey peaked early in life.

No way. He is a fine wine.

[Velar Fricative]

Aug 1, 2014 13:36:56 GMT -5 lyssbobiss, Command, B613 said:

Aug 1, 2014 13:30:10 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

Have you read Lullaby, by Chuck Palahniak? There's this part in there where he points out that a lot of the laugh tracks used in the 70s and 80s were the same laugh tracks that had been recorded in the 50s when TV first came out, so when you're watching Full House, it's dead people laughing at those jokes. :s

No!  Makes sense, though.  I knew no living sane person would think Joey Gladstone was funny.

[IIOY]

Aug 1, 2014 13:30:10 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

Aug 1, 2014 12:35:01 GMT -5 lyssbobiss, Command, B613 said:

Anytime I see a show with a laugh track now, I assume it's going to not be funny. I don't need a group of people to laugh at the pauses in the script where someone THINKS a joke is funny.

Have you read Lullaby, by Chuck Palahniak? There's this part in there where he points out that a lot of the laugh tracks used in the 70s and 80s were the same laugh tracks that had been recorded in the 50s when TV first came out, so when you're watching Full House, it's dead people laughing at those jokes. :s

Wow.  This is oddly disturbing.

[decemberwedding07]

Aug 1, 2014 12:15:43 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Aug 1, 2014 12:15:18 GMT -5 decemberwedding07 said:

Laugh tracks are the reason I don't watch The Big Bang Theory.

They use a real audience.

Well, I feel the same way about live studio audiences.  It makes everything seem so fake.

[bbaggins]

Some time when you're really bored and a little drunk laugh as hard as the laugh track/audience does. It's completely unnatural!

[decemberwedding07]

Aug 1, 2014 13:30:10 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

Aug 1, 2014 12:35:01 GMT -5 lyssbobiss, Command, B613 said:

Anytime I see a show with a laugh track now, I assume it's going to not be funny. I don't need a group of people to laugh at the pauses in the script where someone THINKS a joke is funny.

Have you read Lullaby, by Chuck Palahniak? There's this part in there where he points out that a lot of the laugh tracks used in the 70s and 80s were the same laugh tracks that had been recorded in the 50s when TV first came out, so when you're watching Full House, it's dead people laughing at those jokes. :s

Hey, now! That's only a 30 year age difference! Those people COULD have still been alive! Or do you mean when you watch those old 80s episodes now?