theweek.com: Right now, I'm imagining your laughter.
Stephen Colbert had meant that as a joke when he addressed the comment to the camera in a mostly-empty studio, during the brief period when late night TV taped in their normal venues but without live audiences, before the quarantine ax fell completely. The comment, delivered as a sort of punchline after a skit about the closure of Broadway, earned chuckles from those within earshot: Late Show technicians, the house band, maybe even a few writers who'd strayed into the theater. But watching it again today, Colbert's delivery feels a little sharper, a little less funny, a little more desperate. Without the scattered laughter, I might not have realized it was a joke at all.
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This is an interesting idea becausse laugh tracks are truly so awkward, and we had finally risen above them by just letting studio audiences laugh, but since people cant laugh anymore because they cant be in the audiences shows have become so much more awkward. I remember watching the SNL at home episode and thinking about how much better the viewing expereince would've been had there been people laughing in the audience, so that the actors didn't feel so awkward. It made them less funny to be honest. Che and Colin Jost zoomed people in to laugh at their jokes which was funny, but really you could only heard Aidy Bryant. The idea of having a laugh track sucks because they are awkward, but I think since we have accepted them as a society as terrible, people will go to great lengths to make realistic and well timed laugh tracks. Its a worth endeavor for a bored at home sound designer.
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