it was actually surprisingly entertaining =)

I suddenly feel like I'm watching another Sift-Up video.

a) this is so much better.
b) if it's really a laugh track edited on later (which I suppose it would be, not a studio audience), the actors must specifically pause for the laughter to be inserted. Is it marked in the script?

It's a live audience. You can hear a bit where the audience is still laughing while Sheldon is talking. They just silenced the bits between lines.

Love this show btw.

Wow, this worked really great! Hilarious.

This isn't a parody...
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But on that note, I think EVERY show on CBS would be like this if they didn't have a idiot, err, laugh track.
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But you know, this does show the effect the laugh track has - it makes things that are only marginally funny, funnier. I love when a show can genuinely live without a laugh track, like Arrested Development or the multitudes of animated shows.
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This isn't a parody...
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But on that note, I think EVERY show on CBS would be like this if they didn't have a idiot, err, laugh track.
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This just shows how idiotic and not funny these stupid sitcoms are, in case you were fooled by the laugh track into thinking it was a hilarious riot.

Without the laugh track that seems dark to me.

Someone should do this to Two And A Half Men. That show is so incredibly anti-funny that... it's not even funny. They often have the laugh track start laughing before a joke is at the punch-line, which I theorize is an attempt to make people to think what they're about to hear is funny. But it's not. It never is. Terrible, terrible show.

Never really found this show funny, always seemed like a lame attempt at pandering to the kind of nerd/geek demographic that wouldn't ever watch a sitcom like this in the first place.

I guess part of the problem here is the silence where the laughter should be really does kinda intensify the extreme awkwardness.

The show's pretty funny usually. About one good, solid laugh per episode amidst a sea of chuckles. If they wrote another 5 pages or so (probably 5 minutes of laugh track per ep judging by this) it would be alright with no laugh track. Not great, but watchable. I think it's when a show doesn't have a laugh track to lean on that the writers are forced to up their game. Take it away and maybe the show would get funnier.

Just because they try to use your culture doesn't mean it's worthwhile. This is just another network television show custom fit to cease all brain function. In addition, this show thrives on forwarding negative stereotypes. Please don't embrace this BS. Classically "Nerdy" people can be sexually attractive.

If you're a self identified nerd, and you think people like this represent you, you're also a slacker.

... And you're much more a slacker than you are a nerd.

Can't stand laugh tracks. I like shows that do without them (30 Rock, My Name is Earl).

Now that is funny. I watch this show even though it almost never entertains me. I guess it's my inner geek seeking companionship.

This reminds me of Wonder Years without the voice overs.

This is only one scene, and if you don't know the characters, it might not be funny. To me, knowing the situation, knowing the characters, it's very very funny without the laugh track. I wish I always got to see the show without the laugh track.

Nobody uses canned laughter (ie a catalogue of samples) these days. Instead, they show the completed episodes to an audience in a screening room or cinema and record the laughter. Much better results - genuine laughs for a fraction of the cost of managing a live studio audience.

I picked up the M*A*S*H complete box set a while back and they had a nice feature that let you watch the show with or without laugh track enabled. It was much more human and sobering watching it sans laugh track; when Trapper or Hawkeye would crack a joke, especially in the operating room, the whole dynamic was different.

Guys, this show is filmed with a live audience. It is not a "laugh track". You may not care for the show, but please don't misrepresent how it is made.

Shows without laughter are called "single camera", and they don't have an audience while filming. They're like mini movies. "Three camera" sitcoms are more like live theater when they are filmed.

Though MASH may have been filmed single camera and then screened to an audience for a laugh track, I can't think of any shows that have been made that way in the last twenty years.

Evidence of the live audience at chucklorre.com.

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