Why oh why do British TV producers still ruin the best written comedy anywhere with loud and overdone laugh tracks?
They are not even very good. You can hear the exact same laughter after almost every joke.
The three drinks loud and booming laugh.
The machine gun cackle.
The hesitant murmer laugh (should I be laughing at this?).
The ten year old ha ha laugh.
It goes on and on and makes me want to learn how to lip read.
They are not even very good. You can hear the exact same laughter after almost every joke.
I agree, I found myself cringing after every joke, or, attempted levity, just waiting in anticipation for the same canned laughter of the last joke. The American canned laughter is just as annoying, but at least they change the decible range and variance of the type of laughter. If you have had a few drinks whilst listening to the comedic chitt, it's bearable, but my choice of t.v. watching, is getting more and more selective. I am down to News progammes, Law and Order, Learning chn., History chn., A&E and P.B.S., and some of the specials that come along at times. ...pity, so many channels, so much chitt.:evil:
I agree it is pretty annoying when they use those tracks - probably the only thing worse is those American shows where they announced at the start "Blah-blah-blah is filmed before a live audience" and then you got to suffer as the audience attempted to hijack the show when their favourite (swoon) character entered.
...probably the only thing worse is those American shows where they announced at the start "Blah-blah-blah is filmed before a live audience".
Makes you wonder what other type of audience ther is, doesn't it?
Then there's that phrase "Pre-recorded". What exactly is the difference between "Recorded" and "Pre-recorded"?