@GreenDiesal Yes they did. The thing I like about the first seasons, is they don't have too much laugh tracks (unlike the newer ones). They do use laugh tracks, they've told so themselves in some of the bonus material.
Part of the problem is that muting the audience also cuts off parts of the conversation. The pauses aren't as long as they seem, because the actors don't wait for the laughter to completely finish every time.
The jokes are still funny...but the delivery loses effect because of the awkward silent pauses. But If they had filmed FRIENDS in a manner where the actors could just keep going, then the jokes and the actors would still be funny. It's just harder to laugh with the long silence.
Friends is filmed in front of a live audience. They don't use laugh-tracks. If you listen carefully, the person just muted out the audience's laughter, you can hear it
I like laugh tracks. Shows with laugh track are different from the ones without. You compare TAAHM, HIMYM, Friends with Scrubs or Modern Family you see that it's a whole different type of show. Laugh track comedies are more relaxed and story isn't as important. Usually has like one or two sets and that's it. It's something you watch to laugh at stupid jokes for 20 minutes. When you watch Scrubs it takes more focus.
the only reson it doesn't work is cuz they leave pauses for the laugh track, which just makes the scene seem awkward when it's not there... but then again it's also partly cuz, u completely mute it to remove the laugh track, when if it originally wasn't there there would at least be some noise, so it wudn't seem as weird...
@CockyR4 Or how much it dupes you into thinking something's funnier than it is, or funny at all. Overexposure to such corny dialogue may lead to irreversible damage to your sense of humor.
Nope, not funny. If your show needs a laugh track, or even a studio audience, it sucks. Voiceovers on movie trailers are a similar indicator. If you can't build a compelling trailer from the video and audio as it sits, its crap.
The show is charming and funny. The reason this isn't funny, from a college actor and film/audio studies major's perspective, is the timing is all wrong because they're pausing for the laugh track. When jokes are delivered rapid-fire, they don't need to be as funny. When there's a pause, the joke just hangs there being scrutinized and the audience realizes it didn't deserve that amount of time. So this kind of comparison can't really be made between Friends and say, the Office or Family Guy.
@SethHesio How is that not the point? Also, Friends has a live studio audience, meaning most of the laughter isn't canned. The "craft" of stage acting is reacting to a crowd and giving them space to react to you. Friends is essentially stage acting.
@eleventy5 It's very obvious to everyone that there are pauses allowed for the laughs to come then go. Everyone knows that. This is just funny to watch because the material in friends, aswell as the delivery and the acting is sub par a lot of the time. Having a laughter track can make things seem a lot funnier than they are. Anyway, all of this observation can be done by a layperson, you don't need an actor/ film/ audio student perspective as you so proudly say.
@SethHesio I know you don't need it to make those observations, but you might think so given some of the incredibly ignorant comments on this video. Tons of people don't even read online to know how TV works, they just shoot their mouths off with no knowledge whatsoever. I don't lump you in that category, and I agree the acting isn't amazing. I just think that muting the laughs isn't exactly a fair way to present the show.
@eleventy5 I don't think this video is pulled off particularly well, I think it's far too obvious that there should be laughs. It is kind of funny though. I happen to think Friends was great once upon a time, but only up til around season 3. I get what the creator of this clip is trying to do, and it is interesting. I wonder if someone has added a laughter track to a serious film/ tv show? Must have.
@Mparry6 But there is a need, or at least a point. You don't know anybody from jack s**t on this site, so in an argument credentials or citations are what can differentiate one person's opinion from another's. At least with me you now know I speak partially from experience, partially from common knowledge, and partially from regurgitating facts from some random classroom ;)
@eleventy5 Agreed. Plus the sound just mutes instead of being recut. Thus theres just long silence. Had this been reedited instead itd be much funnier.
There are plenty of shows that use "canned" laughter, even though they have live studio audiences.
A live studio audience isn't (usually) going to laugh at just anything, so on some shows, the sound people will add in some fake laughter in post-production, to cover up the silence after the jokes that didn't go over so well.
So just because a show is filmed with a live audience, and some of the laughs you hear when you watch at home are real, that doesn't mean that all of it is real laughter.
@TheGoldenMachineGun And the show you went to... does every single sitcom do everything the same way? No? Don't expect everything to conform to your personal experiences. Life is a lot bigger than that what you see. Bye.
@TheGoldenMachineGun So your logic is that the audience not only can MAKE themselves laugh at will on cue, but are also willing to comply with these demands? No. You're full of shit. In order to do that, they would not be an audience but rather paid participants. I have seen several behind-the-scenes documentaries of sitcoms, and often the audience didn't laugh and the actors looked at them and said, "What? That wasn't funny?"
How crazy, I just watched the only 3 sitcoms that I really enjoy, all w/o a laughtrack--and this is the only one that still seemed natural and made me smile. It's not even the funniest episode, they just have such great chemistry.
I know it was filmed infront of a live audience but they did re-edit a laugh track in.
One example i saw them do it was if a laugh was too loud they would edit it out with a quieter one to not drown out the dialouge or replace a long laugh with a shortened track to keep the pace of the show consistent. Knowing that it may of been the case they'd insert a better laugh track over an episode if the audience didnt find it as hilarious : l
@DontMessWithCarsten A dumbass like you is insulting people? Welcome to the 21st century, I guess. Look, dipshit...... all shows like Friends use both a laugh track and a studid audience, for reasons people on this very page have mentioned. Do some research before you insult people and come off as a huge ass.
Still love it without the LT, but i have to admit some energy is taken away without it. On the flip side, i believe LTs were also used because the actual audience laughter went on too long and overpowered later dialogue. Also, some jokes probably were funny to the audience on the initial take. After how many takes the joke dies down and a LT is needed. However, Ive never been part of a live studio audience, so i have no credibility.
Sitcoms without audience reaction amount to everyone just being sort of mean to each other. I want to do it with Everybody Loves Raymond! That would be a nasty show without laughter.
I don't get the laughtrack. There are so many good funny shows that are better and don't use it. Malcolm in the Middle was an early example of a sitcom that was still funny despite having no laugh track.
I think it's so much better without the laughing. I hate laugh tracks (or live audience laughter). It's like the Tv shows are just manipulating us. They're like, "We're telling you to laugh! Laugh America, LAUGH!"
It's the pauses, the actors in this pause so that they don't have to talk over the laughter. If they played this without audience reaction, their acting would shift to go with that way of playing.
Take the laugh track out of any "funny" sitcom and you'll see how unfunny they are. Laugh Tracks drive all sitcoms. They are what makes sitcom actors "stars" and the writers and directors' "geniuses". Laugh Tracks are what get this stuff nominated and what wins the awards.
I would've laughed if the silence wasn't throwing me off. If you want to prove a point you need to pick a really bad show like Full House where the audience laughs at a lot of cheap cutesy things that aren't really funny.
If there wasn't a live audience or a laugh track then it would have to be acted more realistically. If there wasn't outside laughter than the characters would be allowed to laugh more... that's why this seems weird.
@Kooletz71 It's Lance Scarlet. You probably recognise him from his gay porn days because he was in loads of those movies. Well, Lance Scarlet was the porn stage name he used anyway.
@johnthemanandking lol, well cant say im much of a expert in gay porn... oh you know what, he is in that movie I love you man... god dam it I look real gay dont I (not trying to be offensive, hey a gay person wouldnt want to be straight right?)
@theredegg1 Actually, they mostly just changed the style/length of the laughter to make it fit in more smoothly with the dialogue in the final product. If you watch documentaries on the DVDs, they show that the writers stayed on set during filming and rewrote any lines that didn't get a good laugh from the audience.
@AlexRider001 Yes, this is mostly true, but laugh tracks were used in more complex scenes where a studio audience was not used. And studio audiences were given cues as when to laugh. So, it's pretty much the same thing as a laugh track.
@AlexRider001 Nearly every single sitcom which is filmed in front of a live audience has a laughter track edited into them. Sometimes they don't get the reaction they want from the audience.
@AlexRider001 Hi, I'm a person who used to get paid to sit in studio audiences and pretend to laugh. Sorry buddy, but friends was one of those shows too.
We weren't actually laughing, we were laughing on cue. :P
@AlexRider001 that made be true, but they don't do the whole fucking show in one take. the audience is prompted to laugh, cuz sometimes they watch the actors do a scene a few times.
@AlexRider001 Wow..... how did that get 123 thumbs up? You do realize that that means nothing? They do film in front of a live studio audience, but they also ALWAYS add a laugh track. They ALWAYS go together. How you don't know this is beyond me. The sheer stupidity, if I can be frank[and maybe somewhat of a dick, I guess]
@AlexRider001 Though they advertised being filmed in front of a live audience, they still edited their footage by supposedly removing laughs that were "too loud..." or not present at all. They used fresh recordings of each audience, having them laugh in various ways so that they could be added later. I learned this on a behind-the-scenes option on a Friends DVD.
@rangerbob1987 sorry, I didnt realise you replied first-but at least the friends dvd was honest if it mentioned adding/removing live laughter. Ive been watching some programs on here with a laugh track added (ER, the news etc) and its odd that they are so much more amusing with them, lol, even when they definately shouldnt be. programs such as the uk version of the Office with the added laughter ruins the feel of the program, and makes it so much more like friends :( lol
@AlexRider001 yes it did :) the laughtrack WAS the live recorded audience! the creators copied and pasted parts of the live laughs to any scene they wished (if they did not get the laughter they wanted in certain areas), could enhance it, and even add extra laughter of their own if they wished. Like a soundboard on a pc. Sad but true-yet it still happens now (big bang theory etc).. you can argue that the laughter "suited" the show, but in truth a laugh track can make ANYTHING funny :(
@AlexRider001 andy warhol was wrong saying "one day everyone will be famous for 15 mins - its actually 5 months and counting"! :D !!! if u can keep it up for at least a year then u might even be in the guiness book of world (wide web) records... :) This videos shows there could b just as many friends haters out there as fans, but Im not saying friends cant b funny. I think people dont realise that even a recorded audience can change the mood of what you are watching ALOT - the magic of sound XD
@AlexRider001 Live audience shows, especially sitcoms, still use audience sound effects gratuitously. A live audience and a laugh track are not mutually exclusive.
@AlexRider001 What you don't realize is that sitcoms filmed in front of live audiences still use laugh tracks. You can't count on the audience to react to, understand, and laugh at every single joke. Therefore, when the audience doesn't give the directors the response they wanted or expect, laugh tracks are added to enhance the effect for a television audience. Don't be so gullible, okay?
it's actually kind of sad without the laugh track. all the men come off as total assholes and all the women come off as horribly failing at cuteness and/or stupid. i bet if they made a show about random stupid shit happening with a laugh track in the background it would do really we-- oh wait.
this proves a good point. I notice when i watch television i simply smile along with the laughter. People just like to be around bright colors and happy laughing people, so they get attracted to television shows like this. But really the shows teach bad values and put a laugh track to degeneration and perversion. seinfeld was the same way. thumbs up.
"Degeneration and perversion"? The only thing this shows are that it's not very funny. Friends and Seinfeld are about as degenerate as forgetting not to work on sunday unless you're ridiculously overconservative.
To anybody who still wants to defend this show, and others like it, consider: if the writers and producers really thought their jokes were funny, why would they feel the need to artificial laughter? Shouldn't the jokes stand up on their own? The would, if they were even remotely funny. Laugh tracks allow for lazy, unfunny writers.
wow i cannot believe how many bad jokes i laughed at when this show had laugh tracks. But man it really proves that alot of the jokes on the show are hit and miss
Yeah, I've often found that I laugh a lot harder when I'm watching stuff with other people. Laughter is a social thing. When I'm by myself, I can still laugh, but not so easily. The laughtrack helps with that. It also helps point out when you might have missed a more subtle joke. :P
@xVeryxHyperx False; two hilarious shows come to mind without laugh tracks - 30 Rock and Arrested Development. Insanely funny they are and I couldn't imagine what these shows would be like with a laugh track.
They don't use laughtracks ! Real people are watching it and laughing ! And I think this is great, that's what's make a sitcom so funny, it wouldn't be the same without it (as we can see) ! :)
this is actually still good..thank god they should make more shows without laughter....and...less creepy un realistic characters...(im lookin at u ross)
I don't see what this is trying to prove, TV and films always relied heavily on music and sound effects. Take the music out of the Shining and it's not even half as scary.
@nioor Well perhaps it simply reaffirms that something we take for granted (such as a laugh track) can make a significantly different experience. After all, people often talk about the incredible sound track. Rarely do people say "Incredible use of laugh track".
It also serves as an interesting way to see how a laugh track can distort our ideas of what is a normal pace for a conversation. Note without the laughing, there are many awkward pauses.
feels weird without live audiences laughter.... lol
perryton 1 week ago
That guy, is it chandler? Oh i dunno, but he's a douche without the laughter...
SuperPhoneDialer 1 week ago
Awww...it's a bad drama now.
sgame79 2 weeks ago
Friends is SO unfunny... I always hated it.
ricarleite 2 weeks ago
is it just me or does the background frequency hurt anybody else's ears?
Orxnge 2 weeks ago
Friends was only funny for series 1 - 4. This episode wasn't funny with or without the audience laughter.
ishockmyself 3 weeks ago
@ishockmyself I think series 1 - 4 were better too, but I like 5 - 10 a little bit too. Not nearly as good as the first ones though.
Needleinvein 5 days ago
Makes him seem like a dick.
jzen1398 3 weeks ago
But friends didn't use a laugh track or am I missing something?
GreenDiesal 4 weeks ago
@GreenDiesal Yes they did. The thing I like about the first seasons, is they don't have too much laugh tracks (unlike the newer ones). They do use laugh tracks, they've told so themselves in some of the bonus material.
EideJulie 4 weeks ago
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welais 1 month ago
It just seemed that little bit more serious/real I think, but I still found it funny.
tampaxvortex 1 month ago
now it's just sad...
MorganShlorgan 1 month ago
I thought it was still funny.
Sadslab 1 month ago
Part of the problem is that muting the audience also cuts off parts of the conversation. The pauses aren't as long as they seem, because the actors don't wait for the laughter to completely finish every time.
MrF0XH0UND 1 month ago
Awkward silence ruins the joke, the show is funny.
maptik 1 month ago
The jokes are still funny...but the delivery loses effect because of the awkward silent pauses. But If they had filmed FRIENDS in a manner where the actors could just keep going, then the jokes and the actors would still be funny. It's just harder to laugh with the long silence.
ifonlyclanax33 1 month ago
There should still be some noise but there isn't any sound at all where there's supposed to be laughter
gcho4567 1 month ago
Friends is filmed in front of a live audience. They don't use laugh-tracks. If you listen carefully, the person just muted out the audience's laughter, you can hear it
gcho4567 1 month ago
I DONT KNOW WHEN TO LAUGH D:
Elreddo 1 month ago
I like laugh tracks. Shows with laugh track are different from the ones without. You compare TAAHM, HIMYM, Friends with Scrubs or Modern Family you see that it's a whole different type of show. Laugh track comedies are more relaxed and story isn't as important. Usually has like one or two sets and that's it. It's something you watch to laugh at stupid jokes for 20 minutes. When you watch Scrubs it takes more focus.
Saints9R 1 month ago
it's still funny
soonsims 1 month ago
but this isn't done well, you cut it off awfully ):
CentralStars 2 months ago
The beginning sounds like a normal conversation.
JerFhilm 2 months ago
a studio audience is different from a laugh track friends had an audience
flashfan2 2 months ago
I never liked this show in the first place, thus the lack of humor here is no surprise.
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bigmoslim 2 months ago
i still laugh, because i watch it as a comedy, not as a crime tape that needs to be investigate
rhytymic 2 months ago
it's not that bad =/ i started genuinely chuckling a little 5minutes into the video.
uiluj13 2 months ago
Yeah, it's true. Laughter is a chain reaction
Brianmaitland 2 months ago
YOU RIGHT, IT AIN'T FUNNY-
MissBelleBrune 2 months ago
the only reson it doesn't work is cuz they leave pauses for the laugh track, which just makes the scene seem awkward when it's not there... but then again it's also partly cuz, u completely mute it to remove the laugh track, when if it originally wasn't there there would at least be some noise, so it wudn't seem as weird...
DaRkLoRd1061 3 months ago
Just realized how important the laugh-track is.
CockyR4 3 months ago
@CockyR4 Or how much it dupes you into thinking something's funnier than it is, or funny at all. Overexposure to such corny dialogue may lead to irreversible damage to your sense of humor.
JerFhilm 2 months ago
Nope, not funny. If your show needs a laugh track, or even a studio audience, it sucks. Voiceovers on movie trailers are a similar indicator. If you can't build a compelling trailer from the video and audio as it sits, its crap.
stripeynu 3 months ago
The show is charming and funny. The reason this isn't funny, from a college actor and film/audio studies major's perspective, is the timing is all wrong because they're pausing for the laugh track. When jokes are delivered rapid-fire, they don't need to be as funny. When there's a pause, the joke just hangs there being scrutinized and the audience realizes it didn't deserve that amount of time. So this kind of comparison can't really be made between Friends and say, the Office or Family Guy.
eleventy5 3 months ago 45
@eleventy5 no, the show just isn't funny. sure you might find parts where you laugh but that's it...
Darusdei 2 months ago
@eleventy5 clever observation, but the show is still lame (pause for laughter)
DivideBuyZer0 2 months ago
@eleventy5 missed the point... you've learnt to take examss and write essays, you haven't actually learnt the craft though.
SethHesio 1 month ago
@SethHesio How is that not the point? Also, Friends has a live studio audience, meaning most of the laughter isn't canned. The "craft" of stage acting is reacting to a crowd and giving them space to react to you. Friends is essentially stage acting.
eleventy5 1 month ago
@eleventy5 It's very obvious to everyone that there are pauses allowed for the laughs to come then go. Everyone knows that. This is just funny to watch because the material in friends, aswell as the delivery and the acting is sub par a lot of the time. Having a laughter track can make things seem a lot funnier than they are. Anyway, all of this observation can be done by a layperson, you don't need an actor/ film/ audio student perspective as you so proudly say.
SethHesio 1 month ago
@SethHesio I know you don't need it to make those observations, but you might think so given some of the incredibly ignorant comments on this video. Tons of people don't even read online to know how TV works, they just shoot their mouths off with no knowledge whatsoever. I don't lump you in that category, and I agree the acting isn't amazing. I just think that muting the laughs isn't exactly a fair way to present the show.
eleventy5 1 month ago
@eleventy5 I don't think this video is pulled off particularly well, I think it's far too obvious that there should be laughs. It is kind of funny though. I happen to think Friends was great once upon a time, but only up til around season 3. I get what the creator of this clip is trying to do, and it is interesting. I wonder if someone has added a laughter track to a serious film/ tv show? Must have.
SethHesio 1 month ago
@eleventy5 a pretty obvious observation, no need for the 'actor, film/audio' stuff, which in turn makes you sound like a bit of a tool
Mparry6 1 month ago
@Mparry6 But there is a need, or at least a point. You don't know anybody from jack s**t on this site, so in an argument credentials or citations are what can differentiate one person's opinion from another's. At least with me you now know I speak partially from experience, partially from common knowledge, and partially from regurgitating facts from some random classroom ;)
eleventy5 1 month ago
@eleventy5 I see where your coming from in a physical social argument but not youtube lol. Floccinaucinhilipilfication.
Mparry6 1 month ago
@eleventy5 Agreed. Plus the sound just mutes instead of being recut. Thus theres just long silence. Had this been reedited instead itd be much funnier.
ACDC392333 4 weeks ago
@eleventy5 But it would help if the jokes were funny. All you get from Friends is some smart arse wisecracks and sarcasm. A terrible show.
Schumitastic 3 weeks ago
There are plenty of shows that use "canned" laughter, even though they have live studio audiences.
A live studio audience isn't (usually) going to laugh at just anything, so on some shows, the sound people will add in some fake laughter in post-production, to cover up the silence after the jokes that didn't go over so well.
So just because a show is filmed with a live audience, and some of the laughs you hear when you watch at home are real, that doesn't mean that all of it is real laughter.
fidelio1980 3 months ago 14
@fidelio1980 You mean... sometimes, there really are awkward, long pauses?
Never thought of it that way.
Needleinvein 5 days ago
I didn't laugh. In other words, this is no different from normally.
sk8erkid6485 3 months ago
I still laughed.
blanknot 3 months ago
@TheGoldenMachineGun And the show you went to... does every single sitcom do everything the same way? No? Don't expect everything to conform to your personal experiences. Life is a lot bigger than that what you see. Bye.
ColibriAnna08 3 months ago
@TheGoldenMachineGun So your logic is that the audience not only can MAKE themselves laugh at will on cue, but are also willing to comply with these demands? No. You're full of shit. In order to do that, they would not be an audience but rather paid participants. I have seen several behind-the-scenes documentaries of sitcoms, and often the audience didn't laugh and the actors looked at them and said, "What? That wasn't funny?"
In short, you're just making shit up.
ColibriAnna08 3 months ago
@TheGoldenMachineGun That's EXACTLY what I said, you moron. Run along. You obviously can't handle an adult conversation.
ColibriAnna08 3 months ago
It's actually hilarious, cause it's so awkward!
DarkShadowMegadeth 3 months ago
i can hear some laughing
supermixgirl 3 months ago
This makes me wonder how they're gonna do the movie...
TheNaitokurabu 4 months ago
@TheNaitokurabu ..add another laugh track? >:D ....*audience cheers in background*
MrVidification 4 months ago
it's kind of awkward. it reminds me of a soap opera for some reason.
OhMyBooks 5 months ago
How crazy, I just watched the only 3 sitcoms that I really enjoy, all w/o a laughtrack--and this is the only one that still seemed natural and made me smile. It's not even the funniest episode, they just have such great chemistry.
fairdathm 5 months ago
Wow, this is really sad. Laugh tracks add so much to the show. I had no idea.
TeamHarris916 5 months ago
Hahaha, I still think it's funny. Come on man; this is the best comedy sitcom show ever made. Second is how i met your mother and modern family!
boydkoers 5 months ago
I know it was filmed infront of a live audience but they did re-edit a laugh track in.
One example i saw them do it was if a laugh was too loud they would edit it out with a quieter one to not drown out the dialouge or replace a long laugh with a shortened track to keep the pace of the show consistent. Knowing that it may of been the case they'd insert a better laugh track over an episode if the audience didnt find it as hilarious : l
Geofujii 6 months ago
Who the hell is so fucking stupid that they can't hear its muted after each punchline?
There is no laughtrack god damnit!
DontMessWithCarsten 6 months ago
@DontMessWithCarsten A dumbass like you is insulting people? Welcome to the 21st century, I guess. Look, dipshit...... all shows like Friends use both a laugh track and a studid audience, for reasons people on this very page have mentioned. Do some research before you insult people and come off as a huge ass.
ZodLex 5 months ago
Still love it without the LT, but i have to admit some energy is taken away without it. On the flip side, i believe LTs were also used because the actual audience laughter went on too long and overpowered later dialogue. Also, some jokes probably were funny to the audience on the initial take. After how many takes the joke dies down and a LT is needed. However, Ive never been part of a live studio audience, so i have no credibility.
DatSmellsStinkowiff 6 months ago
"i will be lieing if i said i hadnt thought abt it myself" LMAOOOOOO classic Joeyyyyyyyy
its still funny, friends rockkkkkk
RebuleraGatita 6 months ago
"we don't do thaatt!! chandler tell her we don't do that"
"yes dear"
LOL
WuIzMe 6 months ago
I still laughed! HAHA
WuIzMe 6 months ago
I laugh at it even without the laughing on the background.
UniqueOneShot 6 months ago
This show sucks either way.
TheToneZone71 6 months ago
Sitcoms without audience reaction amount to everyone just being sort of mean to each other. I want to do it with Everybody Loves Raymond! That would be a nasty show without laughter.
DelilahThePig 6 months ago
its still funny. end of story.
enri66 6 months ago
the show and the jokes they make are still kinda funny even without audience laughter. the audience laughing just adds to the humour.
i think you would've had a better video if you used a different episode with more jokes, like off the top of my head, The One With The Unagi.
DevilDude16 6 months ago
I prefer it - the dialogue normally feels very false, this is genuinely better!
kidpresentablefilm 6 months ago
Oh..
ostrovisky 7 months ago
I don't think its anywhere near as funny without the audience helping you along
EzekielofficialUk 7 months ago
that's bullcrap. friends is the funniest show, and this doesn't prove anything, i still laugh at the moments i laugh anyway
buttersyrupnpancakes 7 months ago
sucks! :S
usernam3d 7 months ago
I don't get the laughtrack. There are so many good funny shows that are better and don't use it. Malcolm in the Middle was an early example of a sitcom that was still funny despite having no laugh track.
Spudst3r 7 months ago
There is a high pitched sound instead. oww my ears
516Emilia 7 months ago
This was painful to watch. Once you take out all the forced audience laughter it reveals just how bland, stale, and unfunny this show actually is.
gibberish517 7 months ago
finally actual proof that friends ISNT funny, fucking hate this show
edenite 7 months ago
You can hear the audience for a split second after every joke, followed by no sound what so ever.
MediocreBlogTV 7 months ago
What episode is this?
alyssaderamos 7 months ago
@stinkyglove Troll :D
Did you actually just provoke me and then delete your youtube-account so I couldn't answer??
What the hell is up with that ^^
AlexRider001 7 months ago
I think it's so much better without the laughing. I hate laugh tracks (or live audience laughter). It's like the Tv shows are just manipulating us. They're like, "We're telling you to laugh! Laugh America, LAUGH!"
shayberry2 7 months ago
@stinkyglove I'm european.
We have shitloads of good, funny series without laugh tracks.
But it really depends on the type of series whether or not it would be funnier with a laugh track.
Sit Coms, in general, are better with them.
AlexRider001 7 months ago
@stinkyglove It's a matter of taste.
You don't need to like it if you don't want to
I do
And Friends is (in my opinion) still one of the funniest series ever to be made
It would work without the laugh track, but it's even more enriched by it
AlexRider001 7 months ago
@stinkyglove Have you never watched any Behind-The-Scenes-Shit on this?
You can SEE the audience.
AlexRider001 7 months ago
laughtrack free , aka mute when the laughs play? wtf
klyspeez 7 months ago 2
Those pauses they make for laugh make it kind of awkward.
DiegoTan 7 months ago
So much better than the original.
japhyriddle 7 months ago
It's the pauses, the actors in this pause so that they don't have to talk over the laughter. If they played this without audience reaction, their acting would shift to go with that way of playing.
autopolydidact 8 months ago
Take the laugh track out of any "funny" sitcom and you'll see how unfunny they are. Laugh Tracks drive all sitcoms. They are what makes sitcom actors "stars" and the writers and directors' "geniuses". Laugh Tracks are what get this stuff nominated and what wins the awards.
EdmacZ 8 months ago
it sux without laughtrack...
princeofhell99 8 months ago
this is the one show where the "laughtrack" doesn't bother me, it actually helps
orme96 8 months ago
This show never made me laugh.
CtrlRm 8 months ago 8
I would've laughed if the silence wasn't throwing me off. If you want to prove a point you need to pick a really bad show like Full House where the audience laughs at a lot of cheap cutesy things that aren't really funny.
ninjayang 8 months ago 2
Laugh tracks, live audience with LAUGH NOW signs, doesn't matter- I still love the show and it will always remain entertaining.
Greatkingrat88 8 months ago
all you've accomplished with this is uh...nothing.
slutinawhorinskaya 8 months ago
@slutinawhorinskaya
Much the same could be said about your comment.
xplat 8 months ago
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@slutinawhorinskaya
The same could be said about your comment.
xplat 8 months ago
If there wasn't a live audience or a laugh track then it would have to be acted more realistically. If there wasn't outside laughter than the characters would be allowed to laugh more... that's why this seems weird.
Thevalleyoftar 8 months ago 2
Its like watching a soap opera!
BradTheBluefish22 9 months ago 2
can someone tell me the name of the actor that plays the boyfriend of the blonde chick, I recognize him but I dont know where he is from
Kooletz71 9 months ago
@Kooletz71 It's Lance Scarlet. You probably recognise him from his gay porn days because he was in loads of those movies. Well, Lance Scarlet was the porn stage name he used anyway.
johnthemanandking 9 months ago
@johnthemanandking lol, well cant say im much of a expert in gay porn... oh you know what, he is in that movie I love you man... god dam it I look real gay dont I (not trying to be offensive, hey a gay person wouldnt want to be straight right?)
Kooletz71 9 months ago
@Kooletz71 It's Paul Rudd , but next time just google i love you man
AERicco 9 months ago
This just proves how lame and unfunny the show was (not to mention overrated).
lurch321 9 months ago
@AlexRider001 infact sometimes they needed to put in Laughter...
theredegg1 9 months ago
@theredegg1 Actually, they mostly just changed the style/length of the laughter to make it fit in more smoothly with the dialogue in the final product. If you watch documentaries on the DVDs, they show that the writers stayed on set during filming and rewrote any lines that didn't get a good laugh from the audience.
flotusocks 9 months ago
You guys do realize Friends didn't have a laughtrack?
It was filmed in front of a live audience.
AlexRider001 9 months ago 176
@AlexRider001
you do know they have signs when to tell the audience to laugh right?
stnrodriguez 8 months ago
@stnrodriguez still much better than shows with fake laughs
AlexRider001 8 months ago
@AlexRider001 ....with a LAUGH NOW sign.
xxmarka 8 months ago
@AlexRider001 Yes, this is mostly true, but laugh tracks were used in more complex scenes where a studio audience was not used. And studio audiences were given cues as when to laugh. So, it's pretty much the same thing as a laugh track.
clambaek 8 months ago
@AlexRider001 Nearly every single sitcom which is filmed in front of a live audience has a laughter track edited into them. Sometimes they don't get the reaction they want from the audience.
KaninBunny 7 months ago
@AlexRider001 yeah.. an audience that laughs when the green light starts blinking.
thorsen123 7 months ago
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AlexRider001 7 months ago
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thorsen123 7 months ago
@AlexRider001 Hi, I'm a person who used to get paid to sit in studio audiences and pretend to laugh. Sorry buddy, but friends was one of those shows too.
We weren't actually laughing, we were laughing on cue. :P
JRod8885 7 months ago
@JRod8885 how about you look down below at what i told the last person to respond to my comment?
AlexRider001 7 months ago
@AlexRider001 You do realize it's all dubbed in anyway?
Emberplate 7 months ago
@Emberplate how are people so f*cking blind?
LOOK IN THE COMMENTS BELOW
AlexRider001 7 months ago
@AlexRider001 Ya but the audiences are instructed to laugh a LOT. In the end it's no different than a better sounding 'normal' laughtrack.
enemytorpedo 7 months ago
@AlexRider001 but what about the parts when they re-film scenes. they don't do everything in front of audience do they?
phantomwaltz 6 months ago
@AlexRider001 that made be true, but they don't do the whole fucking show in one take. the audience is prompted to laugh, cuz sometimes they watch the actors do a scene a few times.
xxxHExISxLEGENDxxx 6 months ago
@AlexRider001 Nobody cares about the difference.
pacific14586 6 months ago
@AlexRider001 Wow..... how did that get 123 thumbs up? You do realize that that means nothing? They do film in front of a live studio audience, but they also ALWAYS add a laugh track. They ALWAYS go together. How you don't know this is beyond me. The sheer stupidity, if I can be frank[and maybe somewhat of a dick, I guess]
ZodLex 5 months ago
@ZodLex You are literally the 5000th person to point that out to me.
All I can say is ..... THANKS :D
AlexRider001 5 months ago
@AlexRider001 OMG DUUUUUUUDE, they augment the audience! DUH! :D *wink*
bonghitable 5 months ago
@AlexRider001 Nah impossible.
HaydnFitzsimons 5 months ago
@AlexRider001 They still add some
frenchfries56789 4 months ago
@AlexRider001 Though they advertised being filmed in front of a live audience, they still edited their footage by supposedly removing laughs that were "too loud..." or not present at all. They used fresh recordings of each audience, having them laugh in various ways so that they could be added later. I learned this on a behind-the-scenes option on a Friends DVD.
rangerbob1987 4 months ago
@rangerbob1987 Thanks, man :D
I'm very well aware of this (now).
I posted that comment 4 months ago and have had about 2000 responses.
It really isn't irritating at all.
AlexRider001 4 months ago
@rangerbob1987 sorry, I didnt realise you replied first-but at least the friends dvd was honest if it mentioned adding/removing live laughter. Ive been watching some programs on here with a laugh track added (ER, the news etc) and its odd that they are so much more amusing with them, lol, even when they definately shouldnt be. programs such as the uk version of the Office with the added laughter ruins the feel of the program, and makes it so much more like friends :( lol
MrVidification 4 months ago
@AlexRider001 yes it did :) the laughtrack WAS the live recorded audience! the creators copied and pasted parts of the live laughs to any scene they wished (if they did not get the laughter they wanted in certain areas), could enhance it, and even add extra laughter of their own if they wished. Like a soundboard on a pc. Sad but true-yet it still happens now (big bang theory etc).. you can argue that the laughter "suited" the show, but in truth a laugh track can make ANYTHING funny :(
MrVidification 4 months ago
@MrVidification Dude
Just check. the. comment. section
Your point's been made for you 500 times already...
AlexRider001 4 months ago
@AlexRider001 LOL four months worth of replieszZz
MrVidification 4 months ago
@MrVidification Tell me about it
But I'm not deleting my comment! I've never had a top comment before... :D:D
AlexRider001 4 months ago
@AlexRider001 andy warhol was wrong saying "one day everyone will be famous for 15 mins - its actually 5 months and counting"! :D !!! if u can keep it up for at least a year then u might even be in the guiness book of world (wide web) records... :) This videos shows there could b just as many friends haters out there as fans, but Im not saying friends cant b funny. I think people dont realise that even a recorded audience can change the mood of what you are watching ALOT - the magic of sound XD
MrVidification 4 months ago
@AlexRider001
Yes, with a sign probably telling them to laugh.
JohnnyRipper70 4 months ago
@AlexRider001 Live audience shows, especially sitcoms, still use audience sound effects gratuitously. A live audience and a laugh track are not mutually exclusive.
fashnek 4 months ago
@AlexRider001 What you don't realize is that sitcoms filmed in front of live audiences still use laugh tracks. You can't count on the audience to react to, understand, and laugh at every single joke. Therefore, when the audience doesn't give the directors the response they wanted or expect, laugh tracks are added to enhance the effect for a television audience. Don't be so gullible, okay?
ColibriAnna08 4 months ago
@ColibriAnna08 For the 200th time, just check the comment section below.
AlexRider001 4 months ago
It's still funny.
Only needed to watch the minute to laugh at
"What can you make out of baking soda and beer" (Knowing the character Joey helps to find that funny.
Also "I'm going to get us through this even if it means you working twice as hard."
While I don't need to be told when to laugh, there's no doubt a laughing track helps with the overall packaging of this and many shows.
RafaElGaffer 9 months ago
it's actually kind of sad without the laugh track. all the men come off as total assholes and all the women come off as horribly failing at cuteness and/or stupid. i bet if they made a show about random stupid shit happening with a laugh track in the background it would do really we-- oh wait.
America's Funniest Home Videos.
whitey1235 9 months ago 74
i thought you didnt have secret from monica?
and that would remain the official party line.
MissExecutive 9 months ago
i think its interesting to watch without the laughtracks. thanks for the video!
MissExecutive 9 months ago
That's distracting but also makes such a difference! :O
ilovepodge 9 months ago
friends is so unfunny compared to real comedy, eg. family guy, inbetweeners etc
hp12387 10 months ago
@hp12387 Real comedy - Family guy and The Inbetweeners? Kill yourself.
VindalooProductions 9 months ago
this proves a good point. I notice when i watch television i simply smile along with the laughter. People just like to be around bright colors and happy laughing people, so they get attracted to television shows like this. But really the shows teach bad values and put a laugh track to degeneration and perversion. seinfeld was the same way. thumbs up.
GroupKB 10 months ago
@GroupKB
"Degeneration and perversion"? The only thing this shows are that it's not very funny. Friends and Seinfeld are about as degenerate as forgetting not to work on sunday unless you're ridiculously overconservative.
frauleinschwein 9 months ago 2
@frauleinschwein i suppose i am ridiculously conservative then
GroupKB 9 months ago
To anybody who still wants to defend this show, and others like it, consider: if the writers and producers really thought their jokes were funny, why would they feel the need to artificial laughter? Shouldn't the jokes stand up on their own? The would, if they were even remotely funny. Laugh tracks allow for lazy, unfunny writers.
TommyFilth1 10 months ago 4
@TommyFilth1 FYI...these are recorded infront of a live audience
MissExecutive 9 months ago
The show is a lot more serious without the laughtrack. That shit realyl does make a difference.
deeblahdee 10 months ago 3
wow i cannot believe how many bad jokes i laughed at when this show had laugh tracks. But man it really proves that alot of the jokes on the show are hit and miss
CanaAlyce 10 months ago 3
I actually think the show's funnier that way
goldenmoleful 10 months ago
it only sounds really bad because its completely silentt durin the laughh!
DevilEll 10 months ago 3
great great superb - keep doing it and I will see all
good man
finally sanity!
mijim254425 10 months ago
still funny!!
just kinda awkward without hearing other people laugh
bechinglish 10 months ago 3
no its just that this isnt funny , they are just laughing with laugh
Sonny0612 10 months ago
Yeah, I've often found that I laugh a lot harder when I'm watching stuff with other people. Laughter is a social thing. When I'm by myself, I can still laugh, but not so easily. The laughtrack helps with that. It also helps point out when you might have missed a more subtle joke. :P
Nibor7301 10 months ago
I still laughed :D
sarcasmo154 11 months ago 2
@sarcasmo154 I still laughed too :))
LovelyHishi 10 months ago 2
The only show that works without laughter is scrubs.
xVeryxHyperx 11 months ago
@xVeryxHyperx False; two hilarious shows come to mind without laugh tracks - 30 Rock and Arrested Development. Insanely funny they are and I couldn't imagine what these shows would be like with a laugh track.
KingRobertBaratheon 10 months ago 2
They don't use laughtracks ! Real people are watching it and laughing ! And I think this is great, that's what's make a sitcom so funny, it wouldn't be the same without it (as we can see) ! :)
mylarobaz26back 11 months ago 2
Taking the laugh track out makes it seem more like a dramedy than a sitcom.
pwnernumberone 11 months ago
this is actually still good..thank god they should make more shows without laughter....and...less creepy un realistic characters...(im lookin at u ross)
RemusLupo 11 months ago
Make the buzzing stop.....IT WONT GO AWAY!
Imjustabirdy2 11 months ago
I don't see what this is trying to prove, TV and films always relied heavily on music and sound effects. Take the music out of the Shining and it's not even half as scary.
nioor 11 months ago 2
@nioor Well perhaps it simply reaffirms that something we take for granted (such as a laugh track) can make a significantly different experience. After all, people often talk about the incredible sound track. Rarely do people say "Incredible use of laugh track".
It also serves as an interesting way to see how a laugh track can distort our ideas of what is a normal pace for a conversation. Note without the laughing, there are many awkward pauses.
It needn't be a negative proving.
Sorasen 10 months ago