This article was really interesting to me because I have never took the time to think about these laugh tracks that are on some sitcoms. I do watch Two and a Half Men, Seinfeld, and Friends along with other comedies.
When Chuck Klosterman wrote about who was actually laughing during these shows was really weird and interesting. I watch Seinfeld almost everyday and when he said that we are probably laughing along with dead people it struck me as odd. I wonder how old and where these laugh tracks came from. Do they update them at all? When it is filmed in front of a live audience, do they become the new laugh track? Overall, I really found this part in the article interesting.
Another part he talked about was that Americans laugh at different times than do the German people. Americans use a laugh to fill some awkward moment or just to fill a conversation. Klosterman said that we have three different laughs: a fake laugh, a real laugh and filler laugh. This part was really relevant to me because my girl friend tells me often that I have a fake laugh. She can tell when I am really not laughing but feel like I should laugh so I do. Doesn't everyone do that?
I feel like it doesn't matter to me if a show has these laugh tracks or not. Even when the author said people laugh when these tracks go off and join them so they feel like they get the joke. But, for me if I don't get the joke I am not going to laugh just because others are. I will laugh at things I find funny not because I should get a certain joke.
Lastly, I am a huge MASH fan as I have confessed before and I was glad to see that MASH starting to not use the laugh tracks when they were in the surgery scenes. They even stopped it at the last of there seasons so now I will have to take a look and this gives me a reason to watch them all again!
Finally to leave this blog post on a good note! This is one of my funniest clips...I don't know why but my high school friends thought this was hilarious and I still laugh every time I see this.
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