NewsBusted: Where’s Our Laugh Track?
by NewsBusters
In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: State of the Union Address, President Obama, President Bush, Paul Krugman, United Nations, Himalayan Glaciers, Bob Woodward, New York Times, Roman Polanski, Childhood Obesity, and Coachella Music Festival.
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Laugh track? No live audience? Would have never thunk it </sarcasm>.
Cheers, Frank
That's what I wanted to know. I felt…empty inside.
Must have laugh track back.
Want.
big tweak anyway, plus jody is hot.
Laughtracklaughtracklaughtrack……Bwaahaahaahaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Perhaps we can record one here?
I feel weird laughing by myself.
I like NB's observations, but I've never been a fan of the delivery, laugh track or no. Sorry.
Love the bit, love Jody, love the laugh track, love watching news that gores (heh) the liberal ox. After I started watching NewsBUSTED (heh, again), it really hit home to me how often msm news shows unconsciously present the news in exactly the same fashion as Jody, except with a deadly serious liberal bias…and no laugh track.
I laughed anyways. : )
Maybe the laugh track was needed for Obama's speeches!
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I don't know. You tell me. But I'm glad it's gone.
I don't mind the absence of a laugh track, but if you don't have a laugh track, Jody, you don't still need to pause to allow for the non-existent laughter between lines.
I much prefer the canned-laughs free version. Laugh tracks tell you when you are supposed to do something (laugh), v. not do something, sort of like every Democrat sponsored bill ever written…
Yeah I like it without a laugh track but it would be better if they filmed it front of a small crowd or something.
Not just no laugh track from a live audience, but no guy going "whOOOO!" at 7.5 seconds, and again at around 14.5 seconds into the beginning, and also, twice, at the close. Amazing how that worked with such perfect timing being done live and all…
Awkward it was because it was designed to be. The same (better than news) jokes with a different delivery and cadence would be funnier by design, but Jody really needs an audience. I gladly volunteer.
You could post 2 versions, one with the laugh track and one without.
That came across very dead, the laugh track gives it more life.
It gives more energy to the pauses.
We are conditioned for this because of the old SNL reporting(skits).
(And this from a guy that hates laugh tracks).
I laughed, but kept looking around to make sure no-one was watching me. I didn't think I liked laugh tracks, but now realize they make me feel less self-conscious.
Okay, that was horrible without the laugh track, please bring it back
Is the laugh track all worn out after Obama's State of the Union comedy hour +11?
Put back the laugh track!
Don't listen to complaints. Jody is hot and it needs some kind of laughter to fill it out.
Fake News, Fake Laugh Track…they should go together. I laughed anyway, but the laugh track makes it more, more..uh…snarky…
Wow… I always thought the laugh track was kinda cheesy. But without it… it just feels wrong.
Jody is a babe……………..laugh track is good.
The lack of the laughtrack seemed to make the points clearer and the funnier jokes "stand out" like the School Czar piece.
It was that particular laugh track that was HORRIBLE. Good riddance.
Yeah, this is pretty much exactly how I feel. I really enjoy certain sitcoms today that don't run with a laugh track. But in some venues, hearing laughter after a joke is kind of expected and it is really flat otherwise. It's like we've been conditioned that way.
The laugh track being used for these have always been cheesy, but kinda necessary none-the-less.
This is going to sound really stupid but….. it seems pretentious without the laugh track. The Onion doesn't need a laugh track because they play it completely straight.
I love Jody, though, so I hope they don't get rid of her. Maybe just change the format a little so she's not laughing at her own jokes. I thought the laugh track added to the camp of Jody's snarky delivery. Without it, she sorta comes off as smug.
Put laugh track back.
Jody in a plunging neckline next time, yo!
What's being proven by not having a laugh track? It's a comedy bit. Until the "applause" signs are gone from late night TV talk show studios and the teleprompter is gone from the Comedian In Chief's speeches, I say leave it in,.
What's being proven by not having a laugh track? It's a comedy bit. Until the "applause" signs are gone from late night TV talk show studios and the teleprompter is gone from the Comedian In Chief's speeches
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