Laugh Track

[Dalekbuster523]

It's a bit annoying, and totally unnecessary. If something is funny, it shouldn't need a laugh track to tell you so.

 

[ClassyCo]

It's a bit annoying, and totally unnecessary. If something is funny, it shouldn't need a laugh track to tell you so.

Common perception, but not one I share necessarily. I admit the laugh track can be grating sometimes (especially on those '60s sitcoms that used the same laugh track over and over again), but I find it nostalgic and familiar for my comfort viewing of shows like BEWITCHED and GILLIGAN'S ISLAND.

 

[Willie Oleson]

I've noticed something possibly worse than excessive/inappropriate laugh-track use: the "applause" button.

Once, back in the 1990s, a Dutch talk show hostess got annoyed by the constant applause interruptions and she told her audience that it really wasn't necessary to clap for everything.
It was an honest but also very unexpected reaction and I guess that's why I never forgot it.
I think she was too intelligent to do that kind of show and it didn't last very long anyway.

 

[Dalekbuster523]

Common perception, but not one I share necessarily. I admit the laugh track can be grating sometimes (especially on those '60s sitcoms that used the same laugh track over and over again), but I find it nostalgic and familiar for my comfort viewing of shows like BEWITCHED and GILLIGAN'S ISLAND.

Each to their own. Personally I prefer if the laughter is genuine audience laughter in a studio rather than canned laughter.