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AdvocateForLucifer32
Actually seeing the unedited versions of Friends (and Scrubs) made them much better. So much cut for advertisers and censors in UK.
Golgothanworm
live studio audiences aren't laugh tracks
MitchBeaucannon
https://i.imgflip.com/3dl36c.jpg
sevenfingerman
A man after my own heart.
FrancisFulloffrenchpeople
BraneDehd
Stealing jokes from tweets or vice versa?
dustinteractive
Stole from tweet, with permission and credit at the bottom and I paid him. Sometimes tweets are so good I have to make them a comic
Theraininspaindrainsmainlydownthemainvein
I hate when people remove a laugh track and think they've revealed the true show, No what you did is fuck up the pacing of course it's off
Fistouille
And in the proper ratio please, 4:3
InTheDistanceAPlaintiveEnglishHorn
Friends is the definition of a sitcom. It's the situations that are funny. The plot and the relationships. Not really the jokes.
youreathing
I mean, I didn't like Friends either. So I didn't watch the show. Seems to have solved my issue with it. Call me crazy.
masta24
Stupid.
BallsToYouMyGoodSir
PIVOT!!!
binky4me
ifiknewiwouldntbehererightnow
Friends was filmed in front of a studio audience. It didnt have a canned laugh track.
kwkspectre
If you edited out the laugh tracks, you would need to edit out the space where they used to be. Much less awkward.
davesrandomstuff
For any show "filmed in front of live audience", that is meaningless, they can still add extra laughter in post.
davesrandomstuff
Watch enough sitcoms, panel shows etc. and you'll start to recognize certain more distinctive reused, recorded laughs.
krisiteenie56
Weird this shows up now...I recently started rewatching the series lol. Yea, its cheesy but I still find it has some great comedy.
sydneyAVDE
I almost never downvote on imgur but this time it was necessary.
ImReallyVent
K. But I like the show.
Svartlebee
Does that include shows with a live studio audience or just canned laughter?
neverpostsoriginalcontent
I'm wondering the same thing. Usually when people say "laugh track" they mean canned laughter, but Friends et al. were filmed live.
DC1888
"Cheers is filmed before a live studio audience"
zebil
TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsTheBabyAteMyDingo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BFSZ8XzWOM
InAMellowTone
*laugh track*
Swedishdepression
In a can!
MrRareza
Sadly, friends used a live audience. Sorry OP! :(
AIComments
I'll point out that somehow, when they recorded in London, you could still hear the audience laughing.
malok
Live audience are mostly people that adore the show and the comedians, they usually laugh at anything. Also, most sets have cues for audienc
Kbantar
It's like how you'll likely laugh when a friend tells a joke that wouldn't be remotely funny if told by a stranger.
Euronyme
Most live audiences are told when to laugh, so it's not much of a difference.
grandmotherfucker
I’ve been in a live audience. There are prompters to tell you how to react.
FNHuskys
Wasn't it a live audience?
evilspyre
Yes, but like a lot of sitcoms they 'enhance' the laughs, as well as telling people in the audience when to laugh.
itsawful
there's a skill to doing good humour for a live audience, which is what i believe friends had
neverpostsoriginalcontent
@op, assuming you resonate with the comic, does it make any difference that it's not canned laughter?
ulubai
Yeah I remember seeing this OC as a reddit thread yesterday
dustinteractive
It was originally a tweet. I contacted the author, got permission to use it, credited him in the sig and even insisted on paying him.
ulubai
Good on ya mate
dustinteractive
I do this from time to time if I think a tweet would be really funny in comic form.
zaxslash
McTricks
Editing out the track changes the timing. Timing is important in humor. Good jokes can be ruined with bad timing, so this premise if flawed.
Shmaaw
But the man's objective is to show that the show is unfunny. If anything, that lends to strengthen the premise.
trustworthyfart
“I removed every third word from it’s always sunny in Philadelphia. Look how unfunny it is.”
Shmaaw
Don't talk to me, talk to red shirt grocery bag man.
alsoAzrael
Not really. He would be artificially making it unfunny by making the timing seem unnatural.
Shmaaw
We are assuming a lot about a hypothetical comic characters motives, but I don't think he's concerned about it seeming natural...
alsoAzrael
Right, but if you wanted to prove that the show was ALWAYS unfunny, deliberately ruining the timing doesn't do that.
alsoAzrael
Can someone explain why this got downvoted? Asking for real, I have no idea what I said that people are objecting to.
McTricks
This is absolutely correct
Beardacus
Let people like things.
ImReallyVent
No. It’s the people of Imgur to tell you your feelings and thoughts.
WeaponizedJerk
Let people express their dislike.
AwesomeTeddybear
Let people let
WeaponizedJerk
No >:(
sahdad
That was a live audience laughing, what they did was closer to nightly theater than what other shows did and are doing.
DeKetsendeRechter
They still use either pre-recorded laughter, or edit it on top to make it sound as it is seen on TV. The audience that they have is far
DeKetsendeRechter
too small for the sound of the laugh tracks.
AdmiralPellew
Some of the laugh tracks used on How I met your mother is taped from the set of Friends
hetnkik999
I have a friend who was in the audience for a Friends taping. He said they basically held them hostage till they go the laughs they wanted.
chuckles1952
I’ve seen the show live.. they record the studio audience. If a joke didn’t work they try another.
maxwilder
The vast majority of “laugh tracks” are actually live audiences.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
That's what all sitcoms claimed back then. "Recorded in front of a live audience!" And yet you heard the exact same laughter over and over.
spudpicker
This makes the difference. Watch the bloopers and you'll see the audience is genuinely enjoying it. Those actors had real comedic talent.
FarenDin
perhaps... but not much. honestly ive tried to like friends. girl i crushed on loved it.. but i cant.. i just cant
Vectron
I enjoyed it back when it first aired. Tried watching an episode recently and couldn't make it through. Either it or I haven't aged well
Wintermute1v1
I still watch it often, but honestly it's more for the nostalgia of the early/mid 90's than anything else.
ermahgerdberks
I don’t think it’s aged well. I used to love the early series, can’t really watch them now.
TheSwedishCryptid
So is Big Bang theory according to all sites I can find on google doesn't make it funny.
maxwilder
I don’t have a problem with people who don’t like the show or the style. I have a problem with people spreading lies.
TheSwedishCryptid
Using the word "lies" has the connotation that they intentionally do so rather than being misinformed and apathetic towards the truth
maxwilder
Apathetic, sure, but I still count that as lying. I'm not here to spare the feelings of assholes who spread false information as opinion.
LerryV2
Shows like that have a laugh light. Something funny happens, laugh light goes on, they laugh. Producers 'Its real people laughing'
riplikash
I've never been able to confirm that beyond it being used as a visual gag. Have you that seen actual proof of laugh lights?
LerryV2
You can see them if you ever watch SNL or see behind the scene videos of TV shows.
FvcktangularBondulance
That said, plenty of that laughter is genuine, people aren't just forcing out HA sounds because there are so-called hype men around.
FvcktangularBondulance
I have, but with simple signs, along with an employee(s) pacing around trying to incite the crowd to applaud and follow the laugh command.
Ect0Burger
Yeah, for some reason people can’t make the distinction. There’s a reason they pause, because people are laughing
Whatshallwedowiththedrunkensailor
Prime example of this was Married with Children.
ceramicpear
Scripts can, and do, include a pause to accommodate a laugh track.
ZaggaTheCleric
“Bazinga” *pause for laugh track*
Ect0Burger
Very true. But not the cause for the pauses on Friends and BBT. People just hate laugh tracks and love to use these shows as whipping boys
TeamRocketHR
The scripts themselves don't. (Although there are sometimes beats written in scripts.) The actors know when to pause.
Sordiy
When I went to BGT they made us laugh then recorded it hen played it at random times. So yeah it is the audience but a fake laugh!
TheMoonTart
Were you just watching the show or did you audition?
Sordiy
Audience
sahdad
In the behind the sceens stuff they talk about having to pause in awkward poses to wait for the audience to stop laughing.
Rignak
BGT?
Acronymicon
Brotherly Garage Theatre
OHoulihan
Britain's Got Talent?
Sordiy
Aye
Rignak
Nice thanks!
grandmotherfucker
There were at least two good reasons to watch Friends.
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Caronaextra821
Slower!
dustinteractive
fair
JuggerGnome
Gifs that end too soon.
Photograz
Gifsthatendtoosoon
Shehasprettyhair
She has pretty hair.
swatz
The first seasons is her in skirts, showing those legs too. They toned that down after the first.
vecna03
But since they never deliver it only worked in the 90s before internet porn took over.
pareidoliaperson
IMO this wasn't one of them. I found it funny, tho it was mostly around season 1 and 2, then it got only drama, no-tears-from-laighter jokes
TheGriffin
*only two
Kostantinho
Thats a good point(or two), but growing up I always loved chandlers humor, didn't care for the rest of the crew.
grandmotherfucker
Matthew Perry was perfect for that role and I loved how they wrote the character.
3rdhottestPepe
100% agree, definitely my favourite part of the show. So relatable, too
TechnicallyRight
The cocaine really helped.
grandmotherfucker
The cocaine ALWAYS helps!
stratdod
Because J.A. had two tits that were at full mast all the time? Seriously, her "bras" were pointless....wait, is that another joke?
Syle
O.o
m00nWatcher
2 jokes in 1 about tits? I guess you could say you just did a double entendre.
Hsid
Double entitdre *
Kilsim1v
...bit of a stretch, but here's an upvote for trying
mldall
Her bra were probably pointed. It was a thing to have perky nipples all the time then. I’ve seen the “fake nipples” they would put in shirts
pareidoliaperson
Pointing out the obvious.
Telruin
I think that's the highlights.
europenudist
They were pretty pointy to me if you catch my drift he he he
tiramigiu
i never understood everyones obsession with her, she was average at best.
siler7
Please get your eyes checked. I think you have a serious vision problem.
pritikina
Agreed. She was attractive no doubt but yet somehow plain. I can't quite explain it. But she was/still overrated.
Ryanator50
Average where you live, and average where I live too. Also average compared to Monica and Phoebe. What was the point I was going for again?
tiramigiu
i preferred phoebe...but maybe i missed the point.
Wearegrid2
Pheobe is like the engineer from Firefly, a beauty, a Bonnie, and a joy forever.
Ryanator50
her personality is the most attractive of the 3