Why do we have to have canned laughter and applause?

[16bha]

Dear Points of View,

Whilst waiting for the resumption of the tennis I just watched the Lotto draw.

Why, oh why, oh why do we have to have this stupid canned applause all the time. Does he BBC think we are so thick that we need to be shown how entertaining a program is, or how funny someone is with canned laughter.

Stop it now!!

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

canned laughter is embedded for the thickies so they know when to laugh

 

[T soprano]

Agree but sometimes it works fools & horses always had canned laughter or a live audience but when they filmed a Xmas special there was no canned laughter and it didn't feel the same .

 

[Fef]

Dear Points of View,

Whilst waiting for the resumption of the tennis I just watched the Lotto draw.

Why, oh why, oh why do we have to have this stupid canned applause all the time. Does he BBC think we are so thick that we need to be shown how entertaining a program is, or how funny someone is with canned laughter.

Stop it now!!

Just what I said to Mrs Fef. Utterly pointless.

 

[brakespear]

canned laughter is embedded for the thickies so they know when to laugh

I'd modify that to say that most new comedy is so unfunny that canned laughter is embedded to point out the bits the creators thought were funny.

 

[pasty]

I'd modify that to say that most new comedy is so unfunny that canned laughter is embedded to point out the bits the creators thought were funny.

 

[Cappers]

Atmospheric value.
Perhaps they should have crowd noises over the PA at cpfc

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Atmospheric value.
Perhaps they should have crowd noises over the PA at cpfc

We should have done that at Withdean!

 

[drew]

If used effectively, it can enhance a programme, but overused it is very intrusive.

 

[rocker959]

I have to take canned groaning into every bedroom I've entered. hehe ..... only joking

 

[Deleted member 18477]

Agree but sometimes it works fools & horses always had canned laughter or a live audience but when they filmed a Xmas special there was no canned laughter and it didn't feel the same .

This. And friends & other American sitcoms. Regardless of whether you like them or not, the canned laughter worked!

 

[Meade's Ball]

I have a canned laughter app that i have attached to my posts so that even when i stare into NSC and see no tickled replies to my inherently drab perceptions i get what i think i deserve: a cavalcade of obese Americans thrown into hysterics, just as if they were watching a My Two Dads triple-bill. Within the app i can change the nationality of the laughs so on occasion i switch to the inauthentic hoots of the idiotic irish who roll in the aisles of Mrs Brown's Boys, or a Chinese guffaw when Cato gets one over Clouseau without riposte. I like to pretend my humour is universal.

 

[Triggaaar]

Why do we have to have canned laughter and applause?

I thought this was a thread about Selhurst Park.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

If used effectively, it can enhance a programme, but overused it is very intrusive.

I think using it in the wrong place is cringeworthy - things that just patently are not funny. I think we'd miss it if it wasn't there, possibly because we just so used to it.

US progs are worse IMO - they need canned laughter in many of the comedys, they're just so bad. Has anyone ever even smirked at anthing in How I Met Your Mother ? Dreadful acting, appalling writing.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Even worse are the 'aaahs', gasps and 'ooooh's' when something sad happens.

American teen shows are totally manic on this. I do try and stop my g'kids watching this hysterical pap (although there's some fine young tottie)