Also liked your one Winterlight, two funny characters with no punchline.
Good stuff and confident writing.
Comedy Lab - 2008 Series Page 10
Quote: sootyj @ August 22 2008, 10:41 AM BSTAlso liked your one Winterlight, two funny characters with no punchline.
Good stuff and confident writing.
Not sure if I've misunderstood you or you've misunderstood me, but I didn't write anything for this show
Quote: David Bussell @ August 22 2008, 10:37 AM BSTI'm not made of stone, Aaron, those cruel barbs of yours do find purchase.
I try, I try. 
Seriously though, did no one else find the laugh track as jolly annoying as I did? I've never even noticed laughter - live or canned - in the past, let alone been bothered by it. I assume that it was recorded at the screening which you attended, Seefacts? It sounded echo-y, empty, and soulless. Like the laughter on a radio comedy, but without the radio atmosphere. Well, without any atmosphere.
I think the folks have a bunch of emulator stuff, program called Dave or something.
E4 usually repeats comedy lab stuff.
Quote: Aaron @ August 22 2008, 10:44 AM BSTI try, I try.
Seriously though, did no one else find the laugh track as jolly annoying as I did? I've never even noticed laughter - live or canned - in the past, let alone been bothered by it. I assume that it was recorded at the screening which you attended, Seefacts? It sounded echo-y, empty, and soulless. Like the laughter on a radio comedy, but without the radio atmosphere. Well, without any atmosphere.
I didn't notice anything wrong with the laughter track. I usually do notice annoying laughter tracks, but couldn't fault this one!
Quote: Griff @ August 22 2008, 10:42 AM BSTMacintosh do have a solution, however the closed DRM system used by Apple is not currently available for licence by third parties
Quote: Winterlight @ August 22 2008, 10:46 AM BSTI didn't notice anything wrong with the laughter track. I usually do notice annoying laughter tracks, but couldn't fault this one!
Really? I have never been bothered by laughter before, but almost switched off after the second sketch, it was that awful.
Quote: Winterlight @ August 22 2008, 10:46 AM BSTI didn't notice anything wrong with the laughter track. I usually do notice annoying laughter tracks, but couldn't fault this one!
I just tune them out.
Has your cat got a name Winterlight?
What would you call a cat, with large oddly coloured eyes?
A bit rubbish. It won't get a series.
I didn't notice the laughter track either.
Slightly off topic (sorry, Mark) but I don't see why people get so wound up about laughter tracks. They don't really bother me, except on Scooby Doo.
If it's real laughter I never notice it. If it's all canned then I do and it does annoy me.
A lot of people do assume that all laughter tracks are canned though, when many of them aren't.
I found the laughter annoying at the beginning (very loud), then i must have tuned it out.
Quote: zooo @ August 22 2008, 11:06 AM BSTI didn't notice the laughter track either.
Less troubled by the laughter track than by cackling in the studio, which the kids played up to too much.
Were the studio bound sketches because they mismanaged the budget? The filmed sequences did look very expensive.
Quote: zooo @ August 22 2008, 11:10 AM BSTA lot of people do assume that all laughter tracks are canned though, when many of them aren't.
Does anyone use canned laughter in this day and age?
I have no idea.
But people are always coming on here and saying 'I hated the canned laughter' about shows we know full well had a live studio audience.
On a serious note, why is it ok to employ kids as actors, but not to make cheap trainers? Child stars always grow up to be messed up adults, so we might as well get some cheap clothing out of it.