After awhile it got a little annoying how the audience clapped for a minute when each actor or actress walked in.
shareYeah, it seemed as if every sitcom in the 70's had that. How annoying.
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At least it was just a respectful clap. By the 1990s, audiences were screaming, cheering, hooting and hollering whenever someone would come on set.
shareKramer got that a lot.
shareI read that after a while they would tell the audience in the warm-up to "please don't clap and cheer" for Kramer's entrance. It threw off their timing and it literally took up too much time. They need all that time for commercials ya know! haha
shareI can definitely see hiwvit affects the scene. He can't just stand there like a goof every time until the applause settle.
shareIt was indeed very distracting, but that's all we knew at the time – unless you watched shows like "M*A*S*H," which I didn't.
shareI think the crowd was responding to those stupid "laugh" or "clap" signs.
shareIt was standard, brief, and perfectly acceptable.
shareAt least it was better than a canned laugh track. Those were very annoying.
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