Laugh Tracks
Created | Updated Feb 26, 2002
Most people are thick. This is why television needs to add laugh tracks so we can understand where the funny bits are.
In Australia they've just aired the third series of "Operation Good Guys" and unlike the second, there's a laugh track.
Is this the same in the UK? Or are Australians considered even more thick than the English and therefore more in need of prompts?
We used to watch M*A*S*H on BBC2 without the laugh track and then recently I couldn't watch it again here because they'd added in a laugh track. An American I knew told me he couldn't watch it WITHOUT the laugh track. He was pretty thick though. Are all Americans like that?
Just another example of the dumbing down of television.
In Australia they've just aired the third series of "Operation Good Guys" and unlike the second, there's a laugh track.
Is this the same in the UK? Or are Australians considered even more thick than the English and therefore more in need of prompts?
We used to watch M*A*S*H on BBC2 without the laugh track and then recently I couldn't watch it again here because they'd added in a laugh track. An American I knew told me he couldn't watch it WITHOUT the laugh track. He was pretty thick though. Are all Americans like that?
Just another example of the dumbing down of television.
