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Laughter track

posted 18 years ago by Tom-B20
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I'm watching this as I type and the laughter track is annoying and offputting :(

[–] morganlee 18 years ago

That's a real audience.

Stuff and/or nonsense.

[–] Tom-B20 18 years ago

doesn't many any difference, still annoying and the should would be better without it.

[–] NEIL-213 18 years ago

Love Darkplace but i can see why this mess has to have canned laughter.

[–] whatisserton 18 years ago

I'd prefer if it wasn't filmed before a live studio audience.... It's good but the pauses for the laughter seem out of place. I'd prefer if it was more like "private" chats...

Damn it, can't they speak about darkplace already!!!

[–] Munky216 18 years ago

Well, I think it does need the canned laughter, with this type of programme it would be kind of weird without it.

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[–] solmaquina 18 years ago

I had the same problem when I watched Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge after I'm Alan Partridge. You get used to it.

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[–] CheekiestBoglin 18 years ago

It's a real audience? It doesn't sound it.. if it is real then its ruining the illusion.
If it's fake then.... then it's strangely planned... because you don't know if the characters are meant to be taking it seriously.

[–] NEIL-213 18 years ago

Part two just got good.

[–] Tom-B20 18 years ago

Yes! I'm loving this bit!

[–] ethanrunt 18 years ago

If the audience laughed at the 'jokes' rather than the jokes, this spoof woulda been better, i think i'll stick with Darkplace.
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[–] damntheconspiracy 18 years ago

Disappointing. I love Darkplace, but this was rather forced and unfunny for the most part. Sanch was the saving grace, I thought. A real shame, cos I've been looking forward to this for ages.

[–] Slippery_Jack 18 years ago

I just talked about this on another thread. The laughter is CLEARLY a live audience - what this show NEEDED was a laugh track, so you would get laughs only at the 'funny' bits within the spoof - a real luagh track is all it needed I think to make it much funnier . . .

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[–] laupy 18 years ago

It's supposed to be like a real talk show which is why the live audience is the best thing to use.

[–] classicuk 18 years ago

I just posted this on another 'Man to Man' message board topic and thought I would just add my views on the 'Laughter track' topic:

I went to two of the recordings of this show (though not the first episode).

As far as the the laughter goes, I can only say that from being there I (and the rest of the audience) found what we were watching genuinly funny. Perhaps we were a little hypered up. After all, at the time of filming (June time if I remember correctly), the DVD still seemed as though it was never going to appear and the fact that something else involving the Darkplace boys was actually happening in front of our eyes, probably did make the audience a little hyper.

I'd just like to add, the episodes I saw are very, very funny. Moreso than the first episode (though I did think it was very good). I just hope people stick with it and give it a chance.

[–] Ornsack 18 years ago

We very nearly went to the audience of this show but couldn't make it in the end =(

Needless to say I've heard many peoples stories about being in the audience, and I even saw someone had taken a sneaky picture of the set on their camera phone from the back of the audience...

...so yeah, the audience is real!

I'd prefer it without, but hey, thought it was good!

[–] t-i-fisher 18 years ago

Yeh, that's what I thought.
I was assuming tehre would be no laughter track, but then when I heard it I thought maybe they would use it as part of the spoof.