I’m talking about laugh tracks. They are fake. The sound of laughter is homogenous. If you listen to a real audience, some people laugh louder, some softer. Also with laugh tracks, you can tell someone is turning a volume knob or slider on a mixer. It’s all fake.
Comment on Comedy shows have laugh tracks cuz they aren't that funny
jimmy90@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
laughing has been show to be a social activity which is why almost all comedies have a fake or real audience
Kintarian@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 weeks ago
I mean the laugh tracks are still real people who have been recorded. It’s not just AI generated.
Kintarian@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I feel like laugh tracks are way to manipulate the audience. The reason they have to manipulate the audience is the joke wasn’t all that funny. If you don’t have a laugh track or a live audience then you have to actually be funny. Your jokes actually have to make people laugh in an organic way.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
The reason they have to manipulate the audience is because people look for validation and so feel good when other people react to things in the same way as them. A laugh track can’t save a terrible show, but it can manipulate people into finding a mediocre show funny, but a mediocre show will make people laugh organically at least a few times anyway