Chuck Lorre hates that he now has to use a laugh track on B Positive

[TMC]

https://ew.com/tv/b-positive-cbs-com...udio-audience/

Lorre's comedies are the first multicamera sitcoms to shoot without studio audiences due to coronavirus protocols. So he's had to rely on laugh tracks. "I've never been fond of that," Lorre said about using laugh tracks to enhance the studio audience. "We never sweetened a show. If anything we very often would take laughs out because we couldn’t hear the dialogue. Adding a laugh to something that is not funny is self defeating. It doesn’t make it funny. It makes it annoying, if anything."

[Yong Fang]

I’ll bite.

Lorre owns the show and should be able to do what he wants.

A show or many things for that matter can be funny without the physical need for laughter. This show for example is funny, but I don’t usually laugh, but mentally it is entertaining if that makes sense. The “laugh track” basically tells the viewer when they are supposed to laugh. It is very artificial but it works.

On YouTube there is an episode of MASH with Harry Morgan playing the insane General with him reviewing the troops with Blake and Radar “Put a shine on that cross”, “The Irish were lousy Indian fighters!”, with Klinger running out late in drag “Not now Mildred, I’m inspecting the troops.” Anyway, they showed this without a laugh track. Still an excellent scene but the humor is somewhat taken away, if that makes sense. But the feel of the episode is much different without the laugh track than with it.

[GentlemanJim]

Originally Posted by TMC

If anything we very often would take laughs out because we couldn’t hear the dialogue.

Well, I can surely applaud the sentiment here. I hate having the lines covered and having to wonder what was said. I used to feel the same way with the X-Files' Mark Snow and the "genius" of his music composition competing with the dialog.......