• SaraTonin@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    …and not necessarily even from the same joke or scene. All you can say with a „live studio audience“ is that the laugh you hear will have been recorded that night. Maybe even from the warm-up act.

    • Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world
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      that night

      That’s also a high sell. Some sound engineer somewhere definitely has a favourite laughtrack they like to use. There’s bound to be inside jokes as well.

      What you can say is that it’s more genuine than a single overused laugh track. In fact, it’s probably the simplest way to get variety - just use the actual laughs when they’re okay, and swap those “not okay” with ones from older takes/scenes/episodes.