Laughter Track
The laughs are disproportionate to how funny everything actually is and it's very annoying and distracting.
shareIt's incredibly irritating. If it's genuine live laughter (and the BBC does tend to film or screen in front of a live audience), it seems to have been edited in some way because it just sounds very artificial. The best examples of canned laughter (and sometimes it does actually serve a purpose) is when you can't remember if it was actually used.
shareI often end up wondering where the canned laughter came from. What were the people originally laughing at when they recorded it? Are we hearing laughter from the 1970s echoing down through the years?
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It is a genuine live audience laughter track for the show claim the BBC in a Radio Times magazine quote.
It does appear to be a genuine audience, so why doesn't it sound like it? And it's not the only BBC sitcom in recent years where the laughter comes across as 'canned' when it apparently isn't. I notice there's a lot of fading up and down (almost between every line!) going on, maybe that's it...
Just a shame we seem to have lost the art of mixing studio laughter. Watch classic comedies of the 70s and 80s and the audience has a completely believable sound to them. share
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