Why sitcoms stopped using laugh tracks
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- Where did laugh tracks come from? And why'd we stop using them...
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We did this experiment already, at first it was weird but got used to it... during thr pandemic when all of the shows were doing it without an audience
Yea was weird at first during the pandemic not to hear the audience laughing
Laughtracks essentially became a Pavlovian cue for the audience to laugh, irrespective of how tasteless the jokes were.
Ironically I was Anti-Pavloved,… or would it still count as Pavlovian Conditioning?
Pretty much whenever I hear a laugh track, I instantly sour and immediately feel the joke is shit, even if it’s the 1-in-10,000 chance it actually is funny.
@@freddykrueger8076 still Pavlovian conditioning.
You hear the laugh track
Your brain recognizes it and responds by cringing as the appropriate response.
Still Pavlovian.
@@Emmpss Cool
laugh track IS the audience laughing. modern sitcoms are filmed with live audience.
@@ekklesiastProps to the audience for laughing everyone the same duration and volume every single show.
There’s a compilation that points out how psycho Ross is without the laugh tracks 💀
Don't be shy bestie drop the link if you can find it please LMAO
@@utaukappasensei2 th-cam.com/video/4H6Ux3l75Rc/w-d-xo.html there’s some other videos of you just look up “Ross Geller Psychopath”
@@utaukappasensei2 I didn't find a compilation but if you look up "ross without laugh track psychopath" you will find plenty of videos
Good thing it doesn't have a freaking laugh track.
Actually friends is shot live with people in a set. The laugh track is from the audience.
Friends without the laugh tracks is boring ngl, and the clip shown made him sound like a terrible person 💀
yessir
Friends WITH the laugh track is still boring
Friends seems boring
As somebody who was watched friends multiple times and loves sitcoms, just about every sitcom character is a terrible person.
I agree. Ross was creepy and disturbing, narcissistic and possessive, jealous, vain and smug.
"Does anybody want to joke when no one's laughing in the background?"
-Bo Burnham
SO THIIIIIS IS HOW IT ENDS
I PROMISE TO NEVER GO OUTSIDE AGAIN
@@SpiderKidAnimations AM I GOING CRAZY? WOULD I EVEN KNOW?
AM I RIGHT BACK WHERE I STARTED FOURTEEN YEARS AGO?
@@lily-kat-kitten2926 WANNA GUESS THE ENDING, IF IT EVER DOES
I just realized that laugh tracks are a genius way to pad out runtime. That one line if dialogue in Friends was like 2 seconds longer than it needed to be. If every joke has a few extra seconds added to it, you could easily eke out an extra minute or 2 of runtime, which is huge for tv shows.
Actually it's even more effective in the long run than what your implying
The time spent on dialogue is basically doubled.
So by the end of the show they've got multiple minutes of free space they didn't have to use
Idk laugh tracks make me go insane because it’s the same laugh being played over and over again
@@hi-kt3qr same, I just don't watch shows with laugh tracks, they feel too fake to enjoy sincerely
Yup filler filler. Tried watching Gabriel Iglesias mr cooper or whatever and i was shocked it had a laugh track. Maybe just to help people that speak languages other than English is the only justification I could give. But holy shit man can’t believe it’s still out there!
They're just waiting for the audience to finish laughing so that they can continue with their lines. Have you never been to the theatre?
"This guy Bing Crosby" like that's some obscure person 💀
Who is he? Famous comedian?
@@Electrobuzz17 we was a singer so he was famous back in the day
He kind of is. I only found out he existed because they mentioned him in a 1944 Looney Tunes short, "The Old Grey Hare."
I read an article that said most companies were using the same laugh tracks for several decades so technically we all grew up hearing the laughter of people long dead while our favorite shows.
And that $hit stayed with me.
Shower thought
God damn.
Shit, we could see the same thing with the internet.
@@tonypeppermint5329 The scariest part is that We don't have to wait...
🫣didn't know that
"this guy named Bing Crosby" and with that Bing Crosby lost his last drop of fame
What do you mean? Bing Crosby is still a well-known musician
I like Bing Crosby's stuff
What do you mean he lost his fame, everyone knows white Christmas + the fallout players listen to music like that all the time
The Crosby family was so fucked up lol. Putting aside the fact that he beat his kids (normal for the time so, whatever), His 4th son killed himself after learning that he had used up all his inheritance, his 2nd son killed himself after a divorce, his first son died of lung cancer, and his 3rd son was a drunk (and frequently drove drunk)who had 4 different marriages before dying of a heart attack.
I love bing crosbys music
Friends character: hi
Audience: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
And that's why I don't like shows with laugh tracks
@@DHS222 fr
@@DHS222 same here
I used to watch Friends, and I can confirm that the laughs are pretty overused, but it's still entertaining nonetheless.
Someone might reply that "Friends is a bad show", "Friends is boring" etc. but people have different opinions, and not all people can agree on something.
Edit: I might have been a hypocrite on this one. I did quit watching Friends because I found other things entertaining. Sorry guys.
Also, try watching it. Maybe you will like it, maybe you won't. Just try to watch a few episodes because some shows get better each episode.
Big bang theory is the exact same way
Watch the office and you'll find the silent of awkwardness is actually funny
Yes, finally someone who appreciates The Office
The office isn’t funny.
@@chef3333 ok
@@chef3333 and friends is? No
@@Classic_Tomfoolery friends isn’t funny
Actually, Friends was one of the only comedies that had a live audience for most of the scenes
THANK YOU!
So did Golden Girls
@@43efds785ffhbfs To some it was fun y
Actually, the vast majority of shows had a live audience.
From I Love Lucy to The Big Bang Theory, actual 'canned' laughter was very rare.
Most shows did.
I tried attacking 2 women did not work “ awkward silence”
Tbh I feel like that made the joke more funny. That being said, I love The Office, so ‘awkward silence’ alone or the video of the piece of bread falling over make me laugh. But slap a laugh track on it and I’ll hate it.
@@Schros_kitty Good thing Friends doesn't have a laugh track.
it reminds me of a law and order episode
I laughed my ass off when they said "awkward silence"
I imagine this would become a horror TV show
Having your laugh in the laugh track must feel so powerful
i respect hbo for this decision honestly. laugh tracks have their place but it is truly aggravating having them in every other sitcom.
Personally, I find that laugh tracks completely *remove* any humor in a scene, even if I was laughing at it a moment before. The less canned laughter, the better.
NO
laugh track gives viewers the sense of being in the audience
I can't help but notice this coming right after the "Twenty Thousand Hertz" podcast created an episode about the laugh track... Coincidence much?
No the fbi’s in your walls
And?
Married With Children had the live audience cracking up so wildly that the cast (especially Ed) had to regularly wait to deliver their next lines because otherwise they wouldn't be heard over the laughter.
This is actually very common for live performances. I did theater in high school and I remember the director telling us to pause when the audience laughed, and not to say the next line until the laughter stopped.
"Can them cackles for later" lol
Henry Belcaster 2: Electric Boogaloo
Right!? He's obviously using the same editors, but even beyond that, he does the voices and presentation the exact same too.
@Merlincat007 they're friends, they both own the animation company that the animators work for. Henry made a video about it, I'm just not sure if dylan also did😅
I actually started laughing from how crazy what he said was
It’s probably funnier without the laugh tracks, just silence after a joke and two people staring at each other
Yeah no that’s awkward
the laugh tracks basically tell me when its ok to laugh bc i dont want to assume a character getting into a fatal accident is funny 😭
The biggest flex ever is being on of the laughs from a laugh track
Why is nobody talking about his Voice acting skills they're criminaly good
Yeah, but his information is faulted.
Bro made what basically could've been an enigma machine for laugh tracks...
A very small percent of episodes on friends actually used laugh tracks, but on a few of them where they didn’t have a live studio audience present, they used laugh tracks recorded from previous episodes of the show, and this must have been one of them. Or maybe there was an audience, the person who edited this just took the laughter out.
Yeah too many people talk about "laugh tracks" without knowing what they're talking about. They ignore that a lot of these older shows were performed like plays with an audience in front of them. You wouldn't moan about everyone around you laughing at a comedy play
Imagine just pushing one button
"How do you call a cute door? aDOORable"
"ha"
People seem to forget that the show was made with a laugh track in mind. If there wasn't, there wouldn't be these awkward pauses. So of course if you take something away from the show it won't work as well.
Not exactly that but it's made with a studio audience in front of them. They pause so they're not shouting over the audience. People like this edit those laughs out but purposely leave in the pauses to make it work for them. Those pauses wouldn't have been there if the show didn't have an audience so leaving them in is dumb
@@joevictor53 and the fact that you can clearly hear in this video that the laugh has been artificially removed rather than some 'raw' track before laughs were added.
Not to mention, the line was taken out of context.
The office and parks and rec are probably 2 of the greatest examples of how no laugh tracks is so much better
This is why I love brooklyn 99. No laugh track just humour
I love shows that were recorded live with an audience. It’s just made them more fun to watch
Laugh tracks are basically peer pressure
“This guy Bing Crosby”
That's some disrespect 🤣
After the era of laugh tracks, we got some great shows that used the awkward silence to their advantage. Like the office, b99 and many more
That's why I love the old comedy show like Friends, Mr Bean, Mind Your Language because of the laugh track. 😁
Ngl mrbean is still funny without the laugh track
I hate laugh tracks
@@its_saber1525me too even as a kid I hated them
The office is the best example of making the silence actually funny
Fun fact: bing crosby was the one who sung: it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, White Christmas and many more Christmas classics,
We know
He also punched his children in the face if they didn’t eat their green beans
Love it when everything but the actual question in the title is answered
Friends is like a watching a show about people who you never would want to be friends with. It's a snore fest 😴.
The purpose of the writing behind the show Friends was not really to make the audience sympathise with the main characters but instead to just sort of empathise with them and relate to many of their life situations.
Like while the main character lives may have their ups and downs they live in nice spacious apartments in a geat part of Manhattan and most of them have good jobs, so they probably have better lives then most of the viewers watching.
However their foibles and screw-ups are very relatable to many people watching, which is where most of the humour comes from. People can say "haha, I've made a mistake like that once before".
(The rest of the humour is the characters getting into absurd comical situations.)
@@SurprisinglyDeep that makes sense mostly that type of comedy or relatable stuff never really applys yo me since I've always lived a very diffrent life then most so for me personally it never hits but I can see how the avarege vewier may enjoy it.
I would definitely want to be friends with them. I’d want Chandler to tell me jokes, Phoebe to give me a massage, Monica to make me dinner, Rachel to go shopping with me, Joey to give me a ticket to his latest play, and Ross to give me a ticket to the science museum.
@rebecca8525 OK they give you stuff but that's not what friendship is about considering you can do most of that yourself.
“Can them cackles” lol
Mommy can we watch Henry Belcaster?
No honey we have Henry Belcaster at home
Henry Belcaster at home.
I've seen so many people make exact copies of his vids. They even talk exactly like him its so weird
"This guy Bing Crosby" lmao.
All sitcoms with a laugh track: *awkward without laugh track*
Everyone: *no response*
Big Bang Theory with a laugh track: *awkward without laugh track*
Everyone: *hey that’s illegal*
Multicam studio sitcoms with live audiences were peak television. I miss that era.
Hbo deserves an award for getting rid of the laugh tracks
Friends is one of the few tv shows with real laugh tracks, the entire show was filmed with an actual audience
friends without the laugh track is so much funnier. I don't need to be told when I'm supposed to laugh
It doesn't have a laugh track.
It doesn’t have a laugh track
"I tried attacking two women; did not work."
>horrified, confused & concerned stare
The generational divide in 2022 is getting wider for me, when Bing Crosby is just a guy with a radio show
fr man he was a superstar and now barely anyone knows him
One of my favorite singers of the Era.
@@Aceshot86 and he was a really nice guy too!
i understood that as bill cosby
@@theunluckyidiot It was a different time my man.
“How am I supposed to laugh at this? There is no laugh track”
POV your listening to dead people laugh💀
I love that the laugh box is basically used by spamming
Fun fact, since most laugh tracks were recorded in the 1950's, you are hearing dead people laugh.
Or people that are extremely old by now.
I noticed this when I tried watching friends. 😂 I wasn't super into it, but even in the earliest episodes it's just a bunch of "friends" being hurtful to each other with long pauses in between insults.
So in other words, everyone on the laugh tracks we hear are dead.
I absolutely hate laugh tracks and don’t watch any show that spams them after every sentence
I thought friends was filmed live, no?
It was, they even showed that they had like, 5 different cameras and a live audience.
Sometimes I laugh at sitcoms, but then I hear the laugh track and all of a sudden I don't feel like laughing anymore
When you listen to a laugh track, you're listening to dead people
When you listen to Michael Jackson, you're also listening to a dead person.
When he said “don’t listen to friends” I thought he was gunna make like an inspiration quote of some sort lol
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Just imagine listening to those laugh tracks knowing that those came from the people who lived back then and prolly all of them are gone by now, man sends shivers down my spine 💀
Friends is overrated ngl
I'm sorry that awkward silence in the friends clip made me laugh
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there’s another way of doing a laugh track, which is my favorite way of doing it
fill a theater and record their actual laughs as a backdrop and then sync it to the broadcast
you get all the benefits of the laugh track but it hits 10x harder cus it’s genuine
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Imagine being an actor and knowing you have to wait 3 seconds between the lines so the laugh track doesnt obscure your dialogue
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That animation was perfect 😂
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Friends without the laugh track is peak gen z humor
Friends sounds weird without laugh tracks because they pause for the laugh track to play
the laugh track doesn't 'play' the live audience reacts. The majority of shows with laugh tracks were made like this.
Never say “this guy” when you’re talking about Bing Crosby
More like the legendary
he said bing crosby like hes some unheard of stranger
Friends without the laugh track is the only time I've actually laughed at friends
People forget that friends was filmed infront of a live audience
Bing made that one song somethings gotta give
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“This guy, Bing Crosby.” Crazy to think people wouldn’t know Bing.
Without laugh tracks just imagine 🦗🦗🦗after every joke 😂
My grandpas aunt taught bing crosby in elementary music
Ngl the lack of a laugh track makes it funnier.
Its just so awkward and makes them sound insane lol
I love how all the characters are just dancing
thanks, now i know why sitcoms stopped using laugh tracks
I actually didn't mind the laughtrack in Friends. It was super annoying in the Big Bang Theory where the laughtrack was played on every unfunny joke or action.
Now when you think about it you are hearing dead people’s laughter
I hate laugh tracks they're annoying and the jokes already suck but without them it's just uncomfortable 💀
They really had a 3 foot tall soundboard just for laughs
“I tried attacking two women, did not work!”
“🤨”
ive watched the entire 10 seasons of friends over 5 times and im still gonna watch it.
THE BEGINNING LMAOO
The laugh from another show was perfectly in time with the friends one.
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If you remove the laugh track the show becomes “Enemies”
Why was it even funnier for a second
"This guy Bing Cosby" like he's a nobody 😂😂
“This guy Bing Crosby’s radio show…”
Oh my.
😆🙃
“Can them cackles fo later!”