Date: 2003-10-01 05:40 pm (UTC)
Shows are often recorded live three times before different audiences, and hacked together later so that the scenes that got the biggest laughs are in the broadcast show. Sometimes they're so dire the show is performed live before a recorded audience: a filler laughtrack has to be added in post production to indicate the funny bits.

You can hear that filler track in MASH. Some of the most memorable episodes didn't have a laugh track. I don't think that show needed one at all but some exec decided that since it was a comedy it should have laughs.

Brit-coms are generally performed once before an audience, and if a joke fails you can hear it die. Others line up the jokes so fast you can miss two while laughing at one. The Goodies did this all the time which is why they always had a filmed animated piece in the middle. It was funny but purely visual. But was possible to die laughing at them.
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