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The Laff Box
- Thread starter Wombat
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I hated those laugh tracks. A real audience was okay. It seemed to me when shows went to laugh tracks it was like compression in the loudness wars. It was always too much, and too often. Had it been more tastefully done maybe not so bad.
I do commend this laugh track added to the Walking Dead.
As for audiences in movies, several times oddball comedies would resonate with me, but not most of the audience. I'd be one of only a couple or three people laughing and everyone else seemed not to get it. But that was not usually the case.
Then there was the 1st time I saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Had never heard of the troupe or the movie. I was laughing so hard I would not have heard what anyone else was doing. However, this was an odd occurrence. A baseball divisional playoff had been rained out on a Friday evening. Somehow the local TV station with no announcement shoved the Holy Grail on to fill the time slot, and also didn't cut any of it. I loved it, but they had to run apologies about no editing the following day.
I do commend this laugh track added to the Walking Dead.
As for audiences in movies, several times oddball comedies would resonate with me, but not most of the audience. I'd be one of only a couple or three people laughing and everyone else seemed not to get it. But that was not usually the case.
Then there was the 1st time I saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Had never heard of the troupe or the movie. I was laughing so hard I would not have heard what anyone else was doing. However, this was an odd occurrence. A baseball divisional playoff had been rained out on a Friday evening. Somehow the local TV station with no announcement shoved the Holy Grail on to fill the time slot, and also didn't cut any of it. I loved it, but they had to run apologies about no editing the following day.
Once upon a time, while flipping channels long ago...
I came across a boxing match.
It was strangely different, and it held my attention. End of one round, start of another.
Until the announcers plugged their microphone back in and added their blather to the crowd and ring sounds that hadn't been cut off..
I came across a boxing match.
It was strangely different, and it held my attention. End of one round, start of another.
Until the announcers plugged their microphone back in and added their blather to the crowd and ring sounds that hadn't been cut off..
