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HuckleB

(35,773 posts) Sun Dec 1, 2013, 09:46 PM Dec 2013

That Mitchell And Webb: If Homeopathy Beats Science

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That Mitchell And Webb: If Homeopathy Beats Science (Original Post) HuckleB Dec 2013 OP

Why do they need a laugh track? longship Dec 2013 #1

Sometimes you can get director cuts of shows without it. AtheistCrusader Dec 2013 #3

I was laughing so hard that I didn't hear the laugh track. Don't know what the previous JDPriestly Dec 2013 #2

+1,000,000 ... 000 HuckleB Dec 2013 #4

longship

(40,416 posts)

1. Why do they need a laugh track?

Reply to HuckleB (Original post)

Sun Dec 1, 2013, 10:45 PM

Dec 2013

It spoils the satire. It's like having a dude sitting next to you, elbowing you in the ribs every time he thinks it's funny.

Thank you very little. I can decide for myself when things are humorous, and I don't need some piped in lame laughter to tell me that.

This shit goes back to I Love Lucy.

Thank goodness I can still watch Dr. Strangelove without a laugh track.

Laugh tracks make comedy lame.