Friends (Laughtrack-free)
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Uploaded by LEspritDeSeb on Nov 10, 2006
This is a clip I recorded of a Friends episode. Out of curiosity, I wanted to see what the show was like without a laughtrack. The result is...well, you decide. Is this still funny? What does that say about other sitcoms that use laughtracks?
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@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.
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@fidelio1980 You mean... sometimes, there really are awkward, long pauses?
Never thought of it that way.
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feels weird without live audiences laughter.... lol
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That guy, is it chandler? Oh i dunno, but he's a douche without the laughter...
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Awww...it's a bad drama now.
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Friends is SO unfunny... I always hated it.
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is it just me or does the background frequency hurt anybody else's ears?
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Friends was only funny for series 1 - 4. This episode wasn't funny with or without the audience laughter.
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@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.
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Makes him seem like a dick.
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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 43
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 12