Cant stand the laughing, especially when there's nothing funny going on. I dont know if they had a real audience or whether it w as fake laughing but it grates on my nerves. Sure would love to see an i love Lucy episode without moronic laughing..
shareI dont know if they had a real audience or whether it w as fake laughing but it grates on my nerves.
Well back in the late 90's i did "audience work" for many sitcoms and talk shows. The laughter you hear is real but us as an audience had to sometimes fake it, or force it more then normal..We were also told to clap at certain times like if some guest celebrity had a cameo appearance. we were told to really give 'em a big applause..etc..
We were also told to laugh more if they felt our laughter was too weak. Also, the most loudest laughing you hear are usually the behind the scenes people, like the producer, writer's etc.. I know in Lucy they have used the same recorded laughter, i too hear the same laughs and gasps and the famous..Uh oh! ..I just wasn't sure if they had a live audience or not, but i think they did..Its just that like you said, it was enhanced by recorded ones. These days i dont think they do that..i know with us it was just us and the behind the scene people making the loudest laughs...
I just dont understand why its so necessary...i mean...ive never laughed just because i heard someone else laughing at something i didn't find funny at all..or at least not funny enough to literally laugh out loud, let alone get hysterical over it. Sometimes on Lucy i will even hear screams..like when Lucy brings home that elephant, you can hear screams in the "audience"..I mean..seriously??
I know in Lucy they have used the same recorded laughter, i too hear the same laughs and gasps and the famous..Uh oh! ..I just wasn't sure if they had a live audience or not, but i think they did..Its just that like you said, it was enhanced by recorded ones.
Funny, people who complain about laugh tracks usually seem to take it as a personal affront too. They get super offended that they're "being told when something's funny." When in reality, the point of the laugh track was to make you feel like you're watching it live, not to insult anybody's intelligence.
sharei also feel that being filme in front of an audience helped the actors, especially in the early days of tv. they had an audience to work off of and get energy from.
'There's just a possibility that I will kiss a doorknob.'
Just call me Sleight
I can believe the screams in the audience, since it was new to have such an outrageous show, and performer like Lucy.
And the laughter that sounds "annoying" seems to be the first season, perhaps when the studio audience was not as filled. Unlike audience-filmed shows since the 50's where they keep doing re-takes, Lucy tried to get it in one take; I don't know how an audience can find something funny after repeated takes. I can swear I hear, Lucy, herself, doing a oft-heard giggle in the first season for the added track (sounds like a little girl's laugh-hiccup effect)
I always found it funny when you could clearly hear Desi laughing (off camera) in the scenes he's not in. He had a very distinct laugh.
shareI always found it funny when you could clearly hear Desi laughing (off camera) in the scenes he's not in. He had a very distinct laugh.
You can really hear him laughing in the Mertz and Kurtz episode when they are performing in the Mertz's apartment.
sharei can remember hearing desi when lucy was doing some routine at the club she wasn't supposed to. his laugh is so unique!
'There's just a possibility that I will kiss a doorknob.'
Just call me Sleight
I remember that. When I saw re-runs as a very young child, that was the first time I realized that the laughter was real people. NO one laughed like Desi, that hysterical barking laugh of his. As you said,very distinctive. It was also kind of fun to know that as a co-star, often director and the producer that he could still be so delighted with his wife's performances.
shareWell back in the late 90's i did "audience work" for many sitcoms and talk shows. The laughter you hear is real but us as an audience had to sometimes fake it, or force it more then normal..We were also told to clap at certain times like if some guest celebrity had a cameo appearance. we were told to really give 'em a big applause..etc.
I hate laugh tracks in general, I remember when Malcolm in the Middle first aired and there was no laugh track and it was like this new and amazing thing!!!
For some reason, it doesn't bother me on I Love Lucy - I think because it's real people in the audience, I don't even hear it, until someone brings it up..
It bothers me in newer shows though because it's so obvious that it's a recording - It all sounds the same.
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The laugh tracks annoy me as well, but I could definitely tell they used a live audience in I Love Lucy, like in certain scenes you could hear the audience's reaction like "Oh no!"
Don't play games with a girl who can play better.
I could definitely tell they used a live audience in I Love Lucy, like in certain scenes you could hear the audience's reaction like "Oh no!"
Nothing beats the Married with Children crowd! Would have been amazing to be in the audience at a filming!
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ILL was mostly genuine studio laughter. Plus, you can here Dezi laughing off camera sometime, with his distinctive laugh....it was real.
shareAnnoying moronic laughter in the background is a major problem with almost all sitcoms.
And if the laughter is from a live studio audience, that doesn't make the problem any better. That just means that live annoying morons are being recorded instead of canned annoying morons. Either way, they are still annoying morons and their laughter still detracts from the show.