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Realmadridirl t1_j5pvmo0 wrote

Reply to comment by reddit455 in Why do shows still choose to use a laugh track in this day and age? Does ANYONE favour it? by [deleted]

Sorry, I wasn’t completely clear, I actually meant like why have a live studio audience at ALL in these kinds of shows these days. It just seems like such an outdated thing to me, personally.

I feel like I’d enjoy pretty much any show with disembodied laughter a lot lot more without the disembodied laughing.

And, I know, they’ve done clips of Friends with the laughing removed and yeah it’s creepy as fuck and weird lol but obviously that’s mainly cos the actors aren’t adjusting the performance to the lack of laughter 😂

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Latter_Feeling2656 t1_j5q93d0 wrote

Live audience shows had almost died out by 1970. Mary Tyler Moore started a live show in 1970, followed soon after by All in the Family and Sanford and Son, and then The Odd Couple switched from single camera with a laugh track to multicamera with an audience. And for the next 20 years, nearly all hit sitcoms were live audience. So, the next hit could turn the whole thing around again.

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