Having cancer is more entertaining than this mindnumbing crap .. I remember in my teens when this was out i was the only one i knew who didnt like it .... if my friends watched this now theyd be eembarrassed, the show hasnt aged well ... well it was bollocks all along for superficial nitwits..
So totally lame and pointless. Right after Phoebe says "I've already seen one" Rachel's mouth moves but we don't hear her dialog b/c obviously we would have heard the laughter from Phoebe's line.
Friends had a live audience. The only time they used a laugh track was for cliffhangers or when they were on location. Watch behind the scenes of the show.
@MelissaLovesMakeup89 It had awful, unrealistic ambient people noises to mask the fact that it wasn't funny, ruin pacing, and pad the run time. Whether or not it was real people is kind of irrelevant.
@MelissaLovesMakeup89 Even when they shot on location they probably showed the show (or the exterior scenes) to the studio audience and recorded their reactions.
This is why I prefer HIMYM. In HIMYM they actually laugh at each other's jokes, which is how it would happen in real life. It wouldn't be as bad without a laugh track as Friends is.
@RealTalkOnlyBro HIMYM is shot & edited to leave room for laughs, so it would also sound odd if the laughs were artificially removed. And no, the characters don't laugh at everything the audience is intended to laugh at.
@themightycelestial They did shoot in front of an audience. This clip had the laughs muted & ambient sound filled in to make it seem like it had no laughs. Though in a couple of spots a few giggles had to let through so as not to cut off the next line.
you've got to take into account the way the show is filmed. this show is filmed around laughter so there are pauses and gaps in the scene that wouldn't be there otherwise.
but it does go to show that the jokes themselves aren''t the best (granted it's only one scene). shows without laugh tracks can't fall back on a laugh track. jokes NEED to be funny.
its isn't a laugh track only....they use a laugh track to augment to the live studio audience. with a huge awkward silence where the audience usually laughs, the show is pretty much an instant soap opera like the schizophrenic above me was talking about
Its not that the show is BAD! People just dont realise how much a laugh track can really add to a comedy shows mood... its would be like being at standup show with one person as the audience... or perhaps even in a pub or nightclub with all the people holding their drinks, talking to one another... when theres no music at all in the background.. It just wouldnt 'feel' right...! btw you could NOT watch an entire episode without the laugh track.. LOL ;)
you're all stupid. theres no "laugh track". a live audience is always present during a shooting of an episode, and clearly, all the editor for this video did was silent out the laughter and replace it with backround conversation noises recycled.
@DSCAccount Just like all comedy shows that are in front of a live audience, they add laughter to the scenes they didnt get the response they expected-eg when they did get it, they used the SAME recorded laughter more than once for the weaker jokes for the final tv episode! Its a cut and paste job on a pc. If this was the audiences genuine response all the time,they would have to be on some strong drugs-but only being a relation to the cast, or being on the casts wages could make that happen! ;)
lol i know every audience response isnt the same. like, im not sure if you remember, but the very beginning of this particular episode where chandler walks past Joeys entertainment centre and rips his suit, the laughter response was ridiculously fake, im just saying that laugh tracks werent added to the entire show..
God, Friends didn't have a laugh track, it was an actual studio audience on it. It did had sweetening when the laughter from the audience wasn't loud enough.
Its because the script and direction is all based around having sound at those moments, of course it sounds retarded, the same script with direction allowing for no canned laughter would be much funnier.
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@DaleWF10 Miranda and Absolutely Fabulous are two excellent British sitcoms filmed in front of a live, studio audience. I guess AbFab did start in the early 90s though.
@DaleWF10 Black Books did have laughter... I can't believe I forgot, but Graham Linehan's sitcoms always have audience laughter. Father Ted, Black Books, The IT Crowd...
In the end it's the quality of the script that matters :) I probably do prefer English comedy, but I love American shows like 30 Rock too. Not because there is or isn't a laugh track, but 'cause it has a good script and good comedic actors.
@AsparagusSpears Yeah i know was by mistake that I wrote in Black Books and Inbetweeners is the best sitcom ever have you watched that :)
Its not that i don't like Background laughter it is okay when nessacary but American shows really over do it to the point where there is a Laugh after every sentance
the only show I really like made in the US is .. How I met your mother
Also like Simpsons and South Park but they are animated not sitcom :)
classic. I mean, everyone has a favorite show, and to each their own, if you don't know the back story to any sitcom, then you probably won't find the clip funny. Tv shows like this are still quite good, just for the fact that the do have a studio audience with actual laughter, unlike other shows.
@ALLenROOK Not necessarily. Only the laugh track sitcoms suck. Live studio audience shows are much more enjoyable, Everybody Loves Raymond being one of the many. :)
If this was supposed to be funny, then I agree that it failed. But most of the time, the laugh-track-free version fails because the timing is off. Timing is very, very important to comedy, and it is different when you are reacting to laughter to when you are not.
thats like one of the least funny scenes in the whole of friends + laugh tracks were only used in places that you couldnt possibly get an audience so here its a live audience not a laugh track lol
I can't say this was totally unfunny/uncomfortable as shows like Two and a Half Men and Big Bang Theory prove to be without a laugh track...it makes Ross come off as a total creeper and Phoebe as greatly disliked amongst her friends, but not unbearable to watch like the others.
Friends is just a decent sitcom. Funny how so many people thought it was the shiz in the 90s. The timeless shows stand out though; Cheers, Wonder Years, Mash, Seinfeld, Married With Children, Big Bang Theory, Etc. Friends is just humor for fat chicks with low IQs.
gull... this is just creepy and akward without the laugh track. They wrote the show differently knowing there wouldnt be a laugh track in mind. A laugh track is not just annoying, it changes how the writers write the show, and change how the driector and cast shoots it, cause they pause for laughter.
@myfacesp laughtracks are used in the first place because the writers lack confidence in their ability to make people laugh without it. it should have been funny with or without pauses, and it was NOT.
@honkeytroll I totally agree with you, I'm just saying it made how they wrote the show differently. There are some shows where there was no intention of using a laugh track, so then when the studio demands a live audience, it screws the show up, and so in future episodes the writers write with a laugh track in mind and it screws up the episodes from conception. But yeah, even if they wrote this with no laugh track in mind, and restructured it a little bit, it still would not have been funny.
Goes to show why I never liked Friends and never got into it.
Well for that matter, I make it a matter of principle to not watch tv shows that have laugh tracks. It actively impairs my ability to enjoy comedy now.
Friends didn't have a "laugh track," it was filmed in front of an audience. So, you know, people are actually laughing at the jokes. That's why the pauses are so awkward; the actors are waiting for the laughter to subside from the audience before they move on to the next line so that it can be heard.
@fiervahl That's the point. If the show were genuinely funny, it wouldn't need the "please laugh here" pauses. Instead, it would have proper comedic timing on jokes they KNOW are funny.
@harpUnstrung68000 No, it's not the point. They're not pausing as a cue to laugh, they're pausing because people are laughing. If they plough through their lines without pausing, the dialogue gets lost in the laughter. You see this in older sitcoms where the actor starts to say their next line while the audience is still laughing, then stop, pause again, and start the line over when the audience has died down a bit. I'm no fan of canned laugh tracks, but a studio audience is not the same thing.
I don't get what everyone means about it not being funny without the laughtrack, still think its lol and actually better because the laughtrack's just annoying.
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Could you stop posting these kind of videos? It's horrible. If only the laughs were cut out, i wouldn't mind. But you only turned the volume down. THAT'S F***ING STUPID
laugh tracks are so offense. Tv show producers think audience members are so stupid that they need to tell us when to laugh, so they add in a laugh track.
When I was younger and shallower, I actually LIKED this show. Watching clips like this caused me to ask myself one question: "WTF was I thinking??"
lurch321 3 days ago
did anyone else hear the laugh at 00:38
DirtyGunner543 5 days ago
Imagen everybody love raymond without a laugh track... It would be massive intervals of silence after every mildly funny joke
sambabway 1 week ago
It makes you feel awcward watching it with no one laughing... Not even me
sambabway 1 week ago
Without a laughter track, mabye the drips who watch this show won't feel so inclined to watch it.
SuperOddjobs 2 weeks ago
this show would still be really funny even without the laugh track, tho some shows...CBS...are not funny in the least without a laugh track
Ammo1174 1 month ago
Married with Children is sometimes aired overseas without a laugh track. Half of the jokes work better, half are awkward.
ricarleite 1 month ago
Of course is not funny this way because the timing is based on the laugh track.
spordespora 1 month ago 2
what's so funny? this is a sad show...
MrStardust85 1 month ago
At 0.10 you didn't lower the laughter early enough
doctordryan 1 month ago
he looks like a crazy mental hehehe
Estevonplayer 2 months ago
Having cancer is more entertaining than this mindnumbing crap .. I remember in my teens when this was out i was the only one i knew who didnt like it .... if my friends watched this now theyd be eembarrassed, the show hasnt aged well ... well it was bollocks all along for superficial nitwits..
favsncrap 2 months ago
@favsncrap - what are you talking about? It's one of the best shows ever. And I'm not a "superficial nitwit".
the1musiclad 2 months ago
The sampled ambient noise (to fill the silence) has Ross's breathing in it. Sounds like a bellows going on very quietly.
ehhhhhhhhhh 2 months ago
I laughed.
alveig4 2 months ago
"Friends" is still interesting, with or without the laugh track.
Big Bang Theory sucks both ways, and removing the laugh track proves it.
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Makes a mockery of the show.....and the needless whoopin and hollerin American laughter tracks.
MrRascasseman 2 months ago
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MrRascasseman 2 months ago
still mildly funnier than Big Bang Theory
amosthree 2 months ago 4
@amosthree fuck big bang theory. i couldnt even force myself to laugh at that show
tselmeg28 1 week ago
This is a very creepy scene without a laugh track
OneADayFoody 2 months ago 2
So totally lame and pointless. Right after Phoebe says "I've already seen one" Rachel's mouth moves but we don't hear her dialog b/c obviously we would have heard the laughter from Phoebe's line.
fretbuzz59 2 months ago
Pinkie Pie: "MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT SHAHAP!!!!"
Punks1Not2Dead3You4R 2 months ago
Friends had a live audience. The only time they used a laugh track was for cliffhangers or when they were on location. Watch behind the scenes of the show.
MelissaLovesMakeup89 2 months ago
@MelissaLovesMakeup89 It had awful, unrealistic ambient people noises to mask the fact that it wasn't funny, ruin pacing, and pad the run time. Whether or not it was real people is kind of irrelevant.
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fretbuzz59 2 months ago
@MelissaLovesMakeup89 Even when they shot on location they probably showed the show (or the exterior scenes) to the studio audience and recorded their reactions.
fretbuzz59 2 months ago
Friends had live audience's they just looped the none laughing background area over the laughing sections.
1stNightingale 2 months ago
@1stNightingale Exactly.
fretbuzz59 2 months ago
I still found it funny, haha "Ive already seen one" Loool
Anyway, when the scene is actually shot, there genuinly is laughter present (in particular from the live audience) and thats why they pause.
DondeEstaVee 2 months ago
This is why I prefer HIMYM. In HIMYM they actually laugh at each other's jokes, which is how it would happen in real life. It wouldn't be as bad without a laugh track as Friends is.
RealTalkOnlyBro 2 months ago
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@RealTalkOnlyBro HIMYM is shot & edited to leave room for laughs, so it would also sound odd if the laughs were artificially removed. And no, the characters don't laugh at everything the audience is intended to laugh at.
fretbuzz59 2 months ago
I HATE laugh tracks.
I like it alot better when they shoot in front of live studio audience.
themightycelestial 3 months ago
@themightycelestial They did shoot in front of an audience. This clip had the laughs muted & ambient sound filled in to make it seem like it had no laughs. Though in a couple of spots a few giggles had to let through so as not to cut off the next line.
fretbuzz59 2 months ago
This was... so awkward, definitely it needs the laugh
CentralStars 3 months ago
I hear comedy everyday that I can laugh at without a laugh track behind it. If u can't laugh at this show without if then its obviously not funny
sheiksubra 3 months ago
It's awkward without one XD
diamondlighting101 3 months ago
Haha, this is hilarious.
OKDeltron 4 months ago
Wasn't funny, but added some drama at the end.
AltairBen 4 months ago
you've got to take into account the way the show is filmed. this show is filmed around laughter so there are pauses and gaps in the scene that wouldn't be there otherwise.
but it does go to show that the jokes themselves aren''t the best (granted it's only one scene). shows without laugh tracks can't fall back on a laugh track. jokes NEED to be funny.
Kevtb87 4 months ago 3
I can't tell where the jokes are
everyoneishomeless 4 months ago 70
@everyoneishomeless Yeah american humor fucked your brain, now you don't even recognize a joke without laughs in the background.
Holvem 2 months ago
its isn't a laugh track only....they use a laugh track to augment to the live studio audience. with a huge awkward silence where the audience usually laughs, the show is pretty much an instant soap opera like the schizophrenic above me was talking about
mcridiculose 4 months ago 2
Lawl!. Soooooooooooooooooooooo strange.
CockyR4 4 months ago
Okay, this is wrong, I tell you WRONG! IT NEEDS THE LAUGH TRACK!
kowalskithepengui 4 months ago
AWWWWKWARD!
anahata58 4 months ago
0:38 I heard a laugh
TerminalMontage 4 months ago
laugh tracks don't tell u when to laugh..they just tell u when humor is being implied.
itzahazylife 5 months ago
Its not that the show is BAD! People just dont realise how much a laugh track can really add to a comedy shows mood... its would be like being at standup show with one person as the audience... or perhaps even in a pub or nightclub with all the people holding their drinks, talking to one another... when theres no music at all in the background.. It just wouldnt 'feel' right...! btw you could NOT watch an entire episode without the laugh track.. LOL ;)
thedarkness667 5 months ago
The pauses in their conversations seem REALLY awkward without the laugh track.
JDiizzlle 5 months ago
Its pretty funny without the laughing track.
Intoxiqated 5 months ago
I think I find it funnier without the laughing track.
mkematter 5 months ago
The only funny thing is how unfunny it is.
FetaCheese222 5 months ago 2
I still found it funny.
2897241 5 months ago
it sounds like a soap opera
MsFriedchiken 5 months ago
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This was awkward.
Veganluke 5 months ago
Actually there is such thing as a laugh track. Even though there is a live audience they can't just rely on the audience
JiMZAWiCAMEL 5 months ago
you're all stupid. theres no "laugh track". a live audience is always present during a shooting of an episode, and clearly, all the editor for this video did was silent out the laughter and replace it with backround conversation noises recycled.
DSCAccount 5 months ago
@DSCAccount HUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH
SomethingRules 5 months ago
@DSCAccount Just like all comedy shows that are in front of a live audience, they add laughter to the scenes they didnt get the response they expected-eg when they did get it, they used the SAME recorded laughter more than once for the weaker jokes for the final tv episode! Its a cut and paste job on a pc. If this was the audiences genuine response all the time,they would have to be on some strong drugs-but only being a relation to the cast, or being on the casts wages could make that happen! ;)
thedarkness667 5 months ago
@thedarkness667
lol i know every audience response isnt the same. like, im not sure if you remember, but the very beginning of this particular episode where chandler walks past Joeys entertainment centre and rips his suit, the laughter response was ridiculously fake, im just saying that laugh tracks werent added to the entire show..
DSCAccount 5 months ago
This makes me feel uneasy.
paivakai 5 months ago 3
Interesting. I'm off to watch Seinfeld laughtrack free. That was the sitcom I really hated.
gunninlinguist 5 months ago
0:38 I can clearly hear laughter..
trampolinegods4life 5 months ago 3
they seem like their really awkward around each other
silvertusk 5 months ago
So if you made a show with insane and retarded people, and then just added a laugh track, you'd have instant wacky sitcom characters.
handsomebrick 5 months ago
I FUCKING HATE FRIENDS GAHHHHHHHHHHHH
Mathews12 6 months ago
Awkward...
msu43 6 months ago
God, Friends didn't have a laugh track, it was an actual studio audience on it. It did had sweetening when the laughter from the audience wasn't loud enough.
BionicCommander89 6 months ago
this is why the brits can make people laugh without the laughing
maleangel1983 6 months ago 2
Its because the script and direction is all based around having sound at those moments, of course it sounds retarded, the same script with direction allowing for no canned laughter would be much funnier.
TheCherubeal 6 months ago
@TheCherubeal Exactly! Even in the Script it says: ¨PAUSE FOR LAUGHTER¨.. Which is why it seems Awkward without the laughs.
DonRMB 5 months ago
Just like real life
LocoRico89 6 months ago
awk-----ward
DivideBuyZer0 6 months ago 28
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MrZuthee 6 months ago
Why would anyone laugh at these parts?
GQ023 6 months ago
US sitcoms suck
English sitcoms haven't used Background laughter since the early 90's and are funny without it
Ross comes across as a creepy peadophile on this clip and it is un funny
DaleWF10 6 months ago
@DaleWF10 Miranda and Absolutely Fabulous are two excellent British sitcoms filmed in front of a live, studio audience. I guess AbFab did start in the early 90s though.
AsparagusSpears 6 months ago
@AsparagusSpears Yeah the modern sitcom like Shameless, Inbetweeners, the Office, the Royal Family etc etc don't have the Background laughter
But shows like Friends and Two and a half men don't have a live studio audience its just recorded laughter what they use
DaleWF10 6 months ago
@DaleWF10 Unless I'm horribly mistaken, Friends did in fact have a live studio audience.
antred11 6 months ago
@AsparagusSpears Spaced, Phoenix Nights, Black Books, Green Wing, Max and paddys road to nowhere
DaleWF10 6 months ago
@DaleWF10 Black Books did have laughter... I can't believe I forgot, but Graham Linehan's sitcoms always have audience laughter. Father Ted, Black Books, The IT Crowd...
In the end it's the quality of the script that matters :) I probably do prefer English comedy, but I love American shows like 30 Rock too. Not because there is or isn't a laugh track, but 'cause it has a good script and good comedic actors.
AsparagusSpears 6 months ago
@AsparagusSpears Yeah i know was by mistake that I wrote in Black Books and Inbetweeners is the best sitcom ever have you watched that :)
Its not that i don't like Background laughter it is okay when nessacary but American shows really over do it to the point where there is a Laugh after every sentance
the only show I really like made in the US is .. How I met your mother
Also like Simpsons and South Park but they are animated not sitcom :)
DaleWF10 6 months ago
this is a bit unfair. you should choose a scene which is more about the jokes than an ending of an episode.
ihnlChiv 6 months ago
It's actually quite brilliant without the laugh track. Some shows sometimes work on a deeeper level without laugh tracks. It's adds drama.
The911Shaman 6 months ago
but the show doesn't us a laugh track? I thought they were all filmed in front of studio audiences...
ohdamnitsairon 6 months ago
@ohdamnitsairon They are. That was edited to have none of the laughter in it, using the room sound from silent moments. Also, friends is brilliant.
antron81 6 months ago
wow that really sucks...
tvwatcher7211 7 months ago
even with the laughing i rarely laugh
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@ishockmyself this is after rachel and ross' wedding in vegas!!
MyBigFrillyKnickers 7 months ago
@ishockkmyself this is after rachel and ross' wedding in vegas!!
MyBigFrillyKnickers 7 months ago
classic. I mean, everyone has a favorite show, and to each their own, if you don't know the back story to any sitcom, then you probably won't find the clip funny. Tv shows like this are still quite good, just for the fact that the do have a studio audience with actual laughter, unlike other shows.
thesIeepywiIIow 7 months ago
LOL man this was really awkward
Smiilez03 7 months ago 4
Just goes to show most american comedy is complete shit.
Sorry to break the news USA
ALLenROOK 7 months ago
@ALLenROOK Not necessarily. Only the laugh track sitcoms suck. Live studio audience shows are much more enjoyable, Everybody Loves Raymond being one of the many. :)
sk8erkid6485 7 months ago
This episode was after Ross and Emily's wedding. The show stopped being funny after that so this proves nothing.
ishockmyself 7 months ago
You can obviously hear where you cut out the laughter. The show was filmed infront of a live studio audience genius.
81pluto 7 months ago
@necrocoprophilia ive watched it once and i wanted to kill myself straight after
ihnlChiv 7 months ago
all the worst shows use canned laughter (big bang theory/ 2 and a half men).
ihnlChiv 7 months ago
Turned into a nice pile of crap, viva le laugh track
VerticalSh0ck 7 months ago
no laughing track= Instant soap opera
Schizophrenia222 7 months ago 48
with no laugh track friends is crap :P
curryhead100 7 months ago
i don't laugh at this show either... it's just so awkward and nobody really seems to like each other
teddyrubskin 7 months ago
awkward as fuck
MCSubliminalSol 7 months ago
Ok, Phoebe seems manic depressive and Ross seems retarded.
wtg2989 7 months ago 117
damn! Shit just got serious
The8347135 8 months ago 5
I still thought it was pretty funny...
CCubed1717 8 months ago
Maybe the show would have been better as a Drama?
Don't know but I like Friends.
XioXaio12 8 months ago
its not funny when theres no laughter!
OMG and i am addicted to friends as well!:O
xrockgirlzx 8 months ago
If this was supposed to be funny, then I agree that it failed. But most of the time, the laugh-track-free version fails because the timing is off. Timing is very, very important to comedy, and it is different when you are reacting to laughter to when you are not.
trlkly 8 months ago
thats like one of the least funny scenes in the whole of friends + laugh tracks were only used in places that you couldnt possibly get an audience so here its a live audience not a laugh track lol
F1RickyC 8 months ago
I can't say this was totally unfunny/uncomfortable as shows like Two and a Half Men and Big Bang Theory prove to be without a laugh track...it makes Ross come off as a total creeper and Phoebe as greatly disliked amongst her friends, but not unbearable to watch like the others.
Moflo 8 months ago
I dont know when to laugh now...
hungovermyhead 8 months ago
Wait... where was the part where I was supposed to laugh?
ignas1130 8 months ago 7
Friends is just a decent sitcom. Funny how so many people thought it was the shiz in the 90s. The timeless shows stand out though; Cheers, Wonder Years, Mash, Seinfeld, Married With Children, Big Bang Theory, Etc. Friends is just humor for fat chicks with low IQs.
FavreianVengeance 8 months ago
That awkward moment when the laugh track doesn't play and it makes you look like an idiot.
Spitfirebird 8 months ago
gull... this is just creepy and akward without the laugh track. They wrote the show differently knowing there wouldnt be a laugh track in mind. A laugh track is not just annoying, it changes how the writers write the show, and change how the driector and cast shoots it, cause they pause for laughter.
myfacesp 8 months ago
@myfacesp knowing there would be a laugh track in mind
myfacesp 8 months ago
@myfacesp laughtracks are used in the first place because the writers lack confidence in their ability to make people laugh without it. it should have been funny with or without pauses, and it was NOT.
honkeytroll 8 months ago
@honkeytroll I totally agree with you, I'm just saying it made how they wrote the show differently. There are some shows where there was no intention of using a laugh track, so then when the studio demands a live audience, it screws the show up, and so in future episodes the writers write with a laugh track in mind and it screws up the episodes from conception. But yeah, even if they wrote this with no laugh track in mind, and restructured it a little bit, it still would not have been funny.
myfacesp 8 months ago
@myfacesp I wasn't arguing with you, honkeytroll. I think we can both agree it would have sucked either way lol
myfacesp 8 months ago
@myfacesp But what makes you think it's supposed to be funny? This is a rather sad part of the show.
trlkly 8 months ago
They're all crackheads now lol.
CertifiedGooner729 8 months ago
Goes to show why I never liked Friends and never got into it.
Well for that matter, I make it a matter of principle to not watch tv shows that have laugh tracks. It actively impairs my ability to enjoy comedy now.
Spudst3r 8 months ago
Man, this scene was awkward without the laugh track!
SancreTor 9 months ago 5
Good idea and pretty good job at doing it. Could have chosen a better scene, though.
Charleh3 9 months ago
It isn't funny because there isn't many jokes in this clip in particular.
EowynTheMaster 9 months ago
at 0:17 it seems that ross and rachel are reacting to the fact that theres no laughter, as if theyre waiting for it.
myfacesp 9 months ago
A darker version of Friends
mth03d 9 months ago
canned laughter... sucks.
baroquefish 9 months ago
the awkwardness of this actually makes it better, with chandler's jokes and no laughs the effect would be devastating
tomgilesmarvoloryley 9 months ago 4
they're pausing to let the audience laugh and aren't drowned out....i think the awkwardness of phoebe makes funny anyway xD :L
giggsa 9 months ago
To be honest, the fact that it looks like Phoebe's quirkiness is making everyone uncomfortable is funny as fuck if you ask me.
lemondere 9 months ago 2
The comedy in this show was so crappy, I got a better laugh out of Two and a Half men.
StarwarsHalofreak 9 months ago
Friends didn't have a "laugh track," it was filmed in front of an audience. So, you know, people are actually laughing at the jokes. That's why the pauses are so awkward; the actors are waiting for the laughter to subside from the audience before they move on to the next line so that it can be heard.
fiervahl 9 months ago
@fiervahl That's the point. If the show were genuinely funny, it wouldn't need the "please laugh here" pauses. Instead, it would have proper comedic timing on jokes they KNOW are funny.
harpUnstrung68000 9 months ago
@harpUnstrung68000 No, it's not the point. They're not pausing as a cue to laugh, they're pausing because people are laughing. If they plough through their lines without pausing, the dialogue gets lost in the laughter. You see this in older sitcoms where the actor starts to say their next line while the audience is still laughing, then stop, pause again, and start the line over when the audience has died down a bit. I'm no fan of canned laugh tracks, but a studio audience is not the same thing.
fiervahl 9 months ago
I couldn't even tell where the jokes were meant to be
catpowerd 9 months ago
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
PaulDoesThings 9 months ago
AWKWARD...
EmuUpAGumTree 9 months ago
this is how i feel when i watch it
DreamsMusicUK 9 months ago 86
@DreamsMusicUK out of interest,what sitcoms do you like?
ihnlChiv 6 months ago
friends are great stop trollin
iDavid96 10 months ago
0:15 and 0:37
shotgunorrifle 10 months ago
it's just so awkward!!!
StephAneeE126 10 months ago 4
Yeah this show really isn't funny, how is somebody saying ''always'' supposed to be funny?
evilbeaver181 10 months ago 4
Ross=Socio
TheGatewayCitySaint 10 months ago 2
no offence but its obvious its fake
vafadude 10 months ago
This just makes it embarrasing
Chopofiev 10 months ago 2
When I was younger and shallower, I actually LIKED this show. Watching clips like this caused me to ask myself one question: "WTF was I thinking???"
lurch321 10 months ago
has anybody noticed that shows with laugh tracks really aren't that funny?
ihatemynameification 10 months ago 6
I laughed anyway! I love friendsx
PeppyChica22 10 months ago
This is so tense !
ifyouwaithere 10 months ago
There's more truth to the story and characters without laughs.
MrDavidFILM 11 months ago
Phoebe just sounds rude!
edieflorence 11 months ago 4
i lol'd, but only because it was so incredibly awkward, and he does sound like a sociopath
cl1mbat1ze 11 months ago 2
Omg, Phoebe is even MORE of a bitch without the laugh track.
xwexarexbulletsx 11 months ago 2
I don't get what everyone means about it not being funny without the laughtrack, still think its lol and actually better because the laughtrack's just annoying.
TheLibstenator 11 months ago
@dominiclewis26 me
rikeebaz22 11 months ago
who's watching this as they heard it on radio1?
dominiclewis26 11 months ago 19
@dominiclewis26 lol me they were talking about only laughing when you're in a room with people.
scrowisnice 11 months ago
LMAO David Schwimmer is really freaking creepy without he laugh track. change the title to creepy Ross no laugh track.
TheGatewayCitySaint 11 months ago 3
Personally I think it's still funny, :)
FuzzehPeach 11 months ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Could you stop posting these kind of videos? It's horrible. If only the laughs were cut out, i wouldn't mind. But you only turned the volume down. THAT'S F***ING STUPID
crazyme1979 1 year ago
laugh tracks are so offense. Tv show producers think audience members are so stupid that they need to tell us when to laugh, so they add in a laugh track.
bigmike4758 1 year ago
How do I know when to laugh?
HappyLittleActor 1 year ago 2
Yes, it was still funny during Phoebe's lines. But Ross's part is taken out of the context so it's not a fair game for his character!
LovelyHishi 1 year ago
I can't tell when I'm supposed to laugh.
IJUSTLOVETURTLES 1 year ago 5
@IJUSTLOVETURTLES Maybe when you got the results back from your iq test ;-)
crazyme1979 1 year ago
Awkwardddd.
LoIzords 1 year ago
fuckin creepy lol
tyler1645555 1 year ago