Tuesday, February 22, 2011

"Ha ha," he said. "Ha ha." Klosterman Analysis

                I’m not sure what to think about laugh tracks anymore.  At first I thought that they were always kind of over exaggerated but after reading “Ha ha, he said. Ha ha” by Chuck Klosterman, it has made me think that TV sitcoms are choosing what everyone watching the program should laugh at.  In way I think that the TV sitcoms are basically molding our minds to a certain type of comedy so we continue to watch their sitcom and we as the viewers are fixated that it is truly funny, when at times it may not be.  In Klostermans story he compares shows like Seinfeld and Two and a Half Men that use laugh tracks to shows like Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Office that don’t use them.  At times when I’m watching Seinfeld there will be times when they play the laugh track after the punch line and I will feel that they are almost dragging the laughter on when in reality it really wasn’t that funny.  Like for example have you every really closely listened to laugh track of a sitcom?  Most of the time you’ll hear one individual person out of the group that is laughing uncontrollably.  I feel that no one truly laughs like that unless it personally with some and the joke usually isn’t that funny to begin with.  Also when Klosterman states that everyone in America has three different laughs, I agree with him because I feel that I myself have a real laugh, a fake real laugh and a filler laugh.   

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