Canned laughter, ugh
It's killing me.
But I'm slogging thru, because I love Bill Bailey.
It's a live audience. Check out the outtakes
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MovieChat Forums > Black Books (2001) Discussion > Canned laughter, ugh
Thanks for the heads up. I was about to add it to my Netflix queue but "The Ranch" did me in with the canned laughter. I agree - ugh. It's not only annoying, it's insulting...like we need to be told when to laugh.
Oh, here's a laugh for you. Some friends and I decided to request tickets to "The Jerry Springer Show" when I lived in Chicago. The show we attended never aired because it was VERY INAPPROPRIATE, even by Springer standards. They had someone come out with cue cards to tell us when to clap, boo or get rowdy. No joke. As if watching a stage full of family members talk about their inbreeding would not lead to a strong audience response without cue cards!
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"The Jerry Springer Show" is ridiculous, and comparing the half-wit morons that enjoy that show to the arguably much more intelligent viewers of "Black Books" is like comparing rocks and functioning brain cells.
TJSS isn't just a show with a live audience; the audience and their reaction is half the show.
Someone coming out with cue cards for when to do something other than laugh at a joke is different from just organically laughing at the joke while in the company of other people laughing.
TJSS requires audience participation, hence telling you when and how to emote properly. Shows like "Black Books", on the other hand, are simply there for our entertainment, and the live audience just get to enjoy the show and laugh at the jokes that they find funny (which happen to be almost all of them).
No one's trying to tell you when to laugh and when not to. Laugh if you want to, or don't, your call. But if you don't understand the jokes or don't find them funny for some other reason, then maybe your best bet is to stick with things like "The Jerry Springer Show."
Why are people still referring to it as canned?? Have you not seen previous comments?
It was a LIVE AUDIENCE!!!
Canned or Live I cant really stand laugh tracks in shows
Channel Six News, they'll finger anything with a pulse!