Wanna know something cool and/or creepy? A lot of the “canned” laugh tracks used in TV (for shows that pretend to be filmed in front of a studio audience, but actually aren’t) are from a small handful of sound libraries that get mixed together. Many of the laughter tracks come from live audiences at I Love Lucy tapings.
If you consider that I Love Lucy was filmed ~70 years ago, and that most of the audience members were likely 20+ years old at the time (the studios were in LA, and the audiences were largely comprised of tourists), then there is a statistically high likelihood that any individual audience member you hear laughing on certain modern TV shows may have been dead for decades.
there is a statistically high likelihood that any individual audience member you hear laughing on certain modern TV shows may have been dead for decades.
Serves them right for being in a canned laughter track!
No but seriously, that’s both haunting and beautiful at the same time. They live on. Like laughing ghosts.
Wanna know something cool and/or creepy? A lot of the “canned” laugh tracks used in TV (for shows that pretend to be filmed in front of a studio audience, but actually aren’t) are from a small handful of sound libraries that get mixed together. Many of the laughter tracks come from live audiences at I Love Lucy tapings.
If you consider that I Love Lucy was filmed ~70 years ago, and that most of the audience members were likely 20+ years old at the time (the studios were in LA, and the audiences were largely comprised of tourists), then there is a statistically high likelihood that any individual audience member you hear laughing on certain modern TV shows may have been dead for decades.
Serves them right for being in a canned laughter track!
No but seriously, that’s both haunting and beautiful at the same time. They live on. Like laughing ghosts.
Laughing at us, for wasting our precious time on earth watching Big Bang Theory.
Being trapped in a laugh track on big bang theory sounds like hell.