Quote: Geistycat @ 17th April 2016, 5:52 PM BST
Partridge's laughter track always seemed out of place to me, for example...
Like the albino with diarrhea, fair do's. I remember one critic saying the only gripe with KMKY is that the audience are in on the joke. Mind you, how else could they have done it?
Quote: lofthouse @ 17th April 2016, 8:04 PM BST
they go over the top... Blackadder Goes Forth
So did he at the end... Incidentally, I never got how people were impressed by the ''''''''''sensitive'''''''''' Handling of the war in that series.
If we should happen to tread on a mine, what do we do? - Well, normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump up 200 feet into the air and scatter yourself over a wide area.
Can I ask you to leave a pause between the word "aim" and the word "fire"? Thirty or forty years, perhaps? [The firing squad laugh] Squad Leader: Ahh, wish I could pause, sir, I really wish I could. But I can't, you see, 'cos I'm a gabbler, me, you see. "READYAIMFIRE!!!" [laughs]
This is the Andrew Dice Clay school of sensitivity.
Quote: LoopyTheClown @ 26th April 2016, 6:09 AM BST
There is nothing worse than hearing an audience (canned laughter) roaring with laughter when there wasn't even a joke or if the joke didn't work.
Anal with a gorilla?
A very good case of a show where no laugh track was better was Boosh. Check the pilot and you'll see what I mean.
Not a sitcom I know, but the amount of laughter in the first series of Ben Elton - The Man From Auntie (aka The Beginning of the End for Benji) was way too much.