This week’s reading is about “Sounding live” by Gina Giotta, it is about how laugh track first developed in radio and used in TV shows and later in 2000s, more and more shows was abandon the idea of laugh track, but still some shows have a live audience, However, some shows involved laugh cue to create fuller effect.
I think i grow up watching show with laugh track and for me it become really common for me, it doesn’t make my laugh on bad jokes or annoyed me. One of my favourite show “The big bang theory”, still uses laugh track and live audiences, i think sometimes the laugh track is quit helpful because there are so much science jokes included and most of them i couldn’t understand and the laugh track help me realised that this is laughable.
One point that i found interesting in the reading is live audiences is helping to get rid of the awkward atmosphere of the actors telling a bad jokes or boost the confidence, but sometimes there are some audiences are “non-lauging or inappropriately laughing” (Giotta 2017) I found similar situation in my personal life as well, when my friends or i trying to tell a joke to others and the joke was not working for one people is quite common, cause not everyone have the same humour sense but it does not mean it is a bad one.
Overall, I think laugh track or laugh cues is useful for both actors and the viewers.