Laugh track
Is terrible.
shareI agree. They could have done without the track. I don't need to be told which bits are funny, or not.
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MovieChat Forums > Black Books (2001) Discussion > Laugh track
Even worse than in American shows, and unnecessary.
shareI'm pretty sure that Black Books was filmed in front of a live studio audience, so the laughs are genuine, not a laugh-track. It's most noticeable in the times where the actors have to kind of stretch the time before their new line in order to be heard over the laughter.
I'm not sure if a laugh track or audience laughter has ever really bothered me with a show before, though. Maybe if it's after every single line, none of which were funny, then yeah, it might annoy me. But I feel like more often than not, I'm having a laugh when the studio audience is, so it's less noticeable.
And Black Books is hilarious in almost every line, so it kind of works out.
I'm pretty sure that Black Books was filmed in front of a live studio audience,
Walking through Bloomsbury in central London last week, I realised I was just round the corner from Black Books. Me and Kevin wrote eight episodes of the sitcom over 2002 and 2003. Although the interior of the Bernard’s shop was a purpose built set in a studio in Teddington, with a studio audience sat on one side (a detail often missing from real bookshops), the exterior was that of a real bookshop
https://misterandyriley.com/2011/09/12/the-real-black-books/#:~:text=Although%20the%20interior%20of%20the,Street%2C%20London%2C%20WC%201.
I don't know what everyone else on this thread are talking about.
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