I hate fake sitcom laughs
There are some shows on TV that I am so sure use fake laughing to make it look like a genuine sitcom when it's really just an extremely low budget tv show. And it's like putting up a big LED sign that says "laugh now."
I don't care if that was the joke, I HATE FAKE LAUGHING
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I don't really mind laughter in some comedies, generally where it's from a live audience, like in
Friends, where you can tell (generally because the laughter isn't controlled and goes on for too long, causing pauses in the actors continuation with the script), but when it's canned laughter, it's just rather annoying.
It's as if the programme producers can't trust me to find the funny parts of their programme.
And also, I find it can make the programme less funny.
I was watching
That Mitchell and Webb Look, a really good English sketch show, by a pair of comedians.
And they use a laugh-track in it. It's not a live-audience, as that would suggest they took a live-audience to all the places they did their sketches at.
The show is rather funny.
Then I watched
That Mitchell and Webb Situation, which is an older sketch show by the same duo.
The quality of the jokes are equally funny. But they didn't use a laugh-track previously.
And it's actually so much funnier. There's a noticeable difference.
I think, the fact that you're laughing out loud means that you actually stir yourself on to laughing more.
Whereas with a laugh-track, you sort of don't feel like laughing out loud, because someone is doing it for you, or if you do laugh, your enjoyment isn't as entertaining, because it's a joint effort between you and the laugh-track, which is inherently fake. You know that laughter hasn't laughed because of the joke. But rather just because it's been put in there at that moment. And also because it can be put in at a part that you don't particularly find funny.
