Scarface finally gets the laugh track it deserves: A reader writes: Regarding your canned laughter thread; it’s likely that only those who live in California’s Central Valley will remember that Fresno, the mini-series starring Carol Burnett, was aired twice, originally in 1986 without a laugh track and again in 1989 with canned laughter “added so … Continue reading Canned Laughter Has Passed Its Expiration Date, Ctd
A reader provides some great professional insight to the thread: After reading the Dish for a couple of years and subscribing this year, I was pretty excited to see a thread that I had some knowledge of. One of the reasons that I read the blog is the seemingly endless reader expertise on almost any subject. Even though expertise is not … Continue reading Canned Laughter Has Passed Its Expiration Date, Ctd
A reader sends the above video: Someone hates “The Big Bang Theory” so much that they used this clip from Annie Hall and superimposed the image from the show onto the TV monitor. Another reader: There is a good point to be made here, but this article seems to use the term “laugh track” like … Continue reading Canned Laughter Has Passed Its Expiration Date, Ctd
Kera Bolonik puzzles over the ongoing use of laugh tracks in sitcoms, noting that “fake laughter is like a fake orgasm — it’s not infectious”: In fact, we’ve had them imposed on us since the fifties, when sound engineer Charley Douglass started “sweetening” the audio, inserting laughs at failed jokes, editing down yuks that went on too long, … Continue reading Canned Laughter Has Passed Its Expiration Date
