Nah. A friend of mine sent me a link a few months ago to an AI writing a script for a batman movie. The highlights of it were batman sometimes being batman, sometimes he is bruce wayne, all times orphan, batman looking for his parents, but they were still dead, two face flipping alfred and alfred landing heads up which means two face goes home, and batman telling alfred to go give birth to robin.
There is a live audience for Friends, just like in normal theatre. These pauses are part of the play, and they're not moments of silence like in this video.
damitayogirl Because the laugh track is over some audio, he has to get rid of any bangs or other noises so he can get rid of the laugh track. you can even still hear it when their talking sometimes which can't be helped
@@Jamesishappy it's a sitcom with a live audience. They edit the laugh track sometimes to control the duration or loudness of the laugh from the audience. It's not like modern family of the office wherein there's no audience present to laugh at their joke.
Most shows are like thatwithout a laugh track. It desensitized us to serious issues. A lot of mean and hurtful things are said on tv, but then a laugh track comes in and make sit seem okay to say those things. Like hey HAHA Joey always gets told hes not marriage material and dosnt realize women are just rejecting him. Thats so funny. Oh they called Steve a nerd again. oh thats so funny. Its in everything. Its horrible.
Tell me what, that not all laugh tracks are canned laughter and the laugh recorded live during shooting is also a track? Or will you try to convince me that there is no live audience?
I literally just said (paraphrased version of) this!! I don't see what's so interesting about watching a group of people with personality disorders pretending to be friends who clearly aren't. And then to pretend it's funny too. Anyone who enjoys this show has always been a red flag 🚩 in my experience
honestly i think the show is funnier without the laugh track. not because i think the writing is genuinely funny, but because the lack of a laugh track highlights how absurd and unrealistic the plotlines and acting are. so i end up laughing AT the characters instead of with them
there was no laugh track. it's filmed in front of a live audience and they have to wait for the audience to stop laughing before the can carry on. That's the whole point of this video. The laughter is edited out to see what it's like. (you can still hear faint laughter at the start of some sentences)
I actually find Phoebe to still make me want to laugh even without a laugh track. And even Joey with the eggs. If the pauses were edited out, they both would still make me laugh throughout.
@@liamomaonaigh9743 based on the amount of attempted jokes in this 2.53 clip that totally fall flat without the audio telling you to laugh, their hit rate was not particularly great 😂
@@remirussin7240 first of all, not all were attempted jokes. But laugh track is added in every situation just to keep the pace going. People here really don't know much!
I died at that because it was so random lmao, it's like when all the popular kids suddenly decide to talk to a nerd and then he tries to pretend how cool he is
Omg this lol the amount of times I've woke up after a night out looking like something out of the walking dead 😂 also the fact that they're not both dying of thirst and not struggling to maintain a proper sentence is such crap
Everywhere basically. It's still more or less just as funny. Though this scene is terrible for this purpose. It supposed to be filled with long pauses caused by misunderstand and pure awkwardness.
Comedy is about timing. They’re pausing to get through laughs so it loses its whit. If you edit out the pauses with some clever cuts it would be interesting to see how it plays.
Honestly prefer this. The pauses are slightly too long, but at times that also makes it feel more real. "Tennis is more believable" actually made me chuckle, because the pause made total sense.
yeah this actually made me laugh a couple of times, but the pauses for the laugh track were fucking weird. Certainly wouldn't have had me laughing as often as the laugh track would have suggested, the audience laughs like a pack of sycophantic hyenas on nitrous.
Andreas Michael Design Right? Shorten the pauses and most the laughs are still there. “Tennis is more believable” got me. And “tell her she’s not marriage material”
That was the funniest joke of this whole scene haha but the best part is that it’s only funny BECAUSE there’s no laugh track. The silence has perfect comedic timing
That seems to be the point of the poster as well. That the show definitely still works as a show without the laugh track. The scenes and dialogue are fine. Of course by editing out the laugh track you're now left with awkward pauses, but a director could recreate all these scenes without a laugh track and it would still be a decent comedy show.
MrYo888779 This doesn’t mean that shows with a laugh track aren’t funny. Laugh tracks are just unnecessary. But if you look past the laugh track, you will find some good jokes.
It wasn't built around a laugh track. Sitcoms are filmed with live laughter but they have to use a laugh track to make laughter consistent when editing takes together, otherwise the editing would be to obvious.
syl woest there is a sense they all know each other very well and take the good with the bad. they all seem like really old friends! and the pauses feel to me like they are thinking something like "you idiot."
+AverageGamingBros it is in a way but this show is actually not funny. Its possible someone can think that it is, and it may be to them. But it actually isnt funny in reality. Like someone laughing at 9/11
WOKE lmao. laugh tracks are added by the fucking directors, not the evil gubment. they're in place for where a live audience would usually laugh. they just want to make us feel like we're part of a live audience. it goes way back and started because sometimes jokes weren't understood by the entire audience. but no, the comedy directors want to brainwash and condition us...into laughing. evil af. jesus man. settle down
@Truth Lives or he has a weird sense of humour. I grew up on friends but I don't find that stuff funny. I find things funny if they're funny. Brainwashing only works on the weak and followers. So you cant put that on everyone that watches a show that probably billions know of
The laugh tracks were supposed to leave the audience laugh without interrupting. Back when friends was recorded it made sense, and some episodes actually had an audience. When comedies have laugh tracks today it's just exactly that.
@@Johncarver7777 I dont care if I’m laughing at a show and I miss another joke. I would much rather have that than pauses like this. That just gives the show replay value. You can come back a year later, watch the same show, and pick up jokes you missed on your first watch through. And the more jokes there are, the more replay value it has because it gives you more to re-watch.
@@PtylerBeats YOU are talking about yourself. Friends wasn't meant for your generation. If I recall friends started around 1993. It clearly didn't intend to be groundbreaking, nor was it expected to be such a hit. However it followed the same format fraiser or Seinfeld had. Because the format was meant for a generation much older than you and I. Laughing at it would be like laughing at VCR. "So stoopid, it didn't even had touch screens" meanwhile it's the precursor of many stuff you watch everyday.
There is no such thing as a show based off of laugh track,,all Sitcoms are in front of live studio audiences but they add laugh track to cover up takes edited together, otherwise the laughing would be inconsistent.
" _I'm drunk right now!_ " that one actually got to me. The rest was so stale I found myself actually repeatedly checking the timestamp going "is it over yet? this is the longest 2 minutes and 52 seconds of my life"
pacing seems off, but when you compare it to Big Bang Theory you really see the difference in both line-delivery and comedic timing, there's enough subtle expression, movement and good delivery to make friends work regardless. whereas Big Bang Theory just feels dead.
The difference between the Big Bang Theory and Friends is that Friends without the laugh track is funny with an awkward silence. The Big Bang Theory is just one long awkward silence.
@@daraghokane4236 I disagree, I know a lot of people, including myself, who grew up watching shows with the laugh track and have got so used to it that they don't mind it. All this talk about "being programmed" are you a fucking computer or is your brain that small?
Well they tape a scene like a million times so they pick the best laugh plus if u can't hear the talking over the laugh then they pick a machine to play a quiet one
yea i saw a behind the scenes thing, and in it, jennifer said a joke and the audience laughed and you couldnt hear the rest, so the put in a machine laugh so t would be quiet when she talked.
And also based on previous circumstance and dramatic irony for the audience. Like you have to know the context from the rest of the episode and previous scenes to get the jokes. Kind of an odd choice for an experiment like this.
rorz999 the comedy of friends relies more on the context than the laugh track. You have to actually watch the show because it all ties itself together; a lot of the jokes are built on material from previous episodes
...you're an honest idiot, aren't you? You've never been to a filming, have you? They tell you before shooting starts that when the sign lights up you HAVE TO LAUGH. Even if it's not funny. You can't honestly think show's go with JUST a live audience's laughter. Naivety at its best.
I think Friends is a funny series. But taking out the laughter track makes these characters seem much more tragic. I would love to be friends with someone like Phoebe. But in the no laughter world, I think I would avoid her. She causes awkward silences, and none of them see the funny side.
Actually the thing is there is so much pause for laughing track in between. Just remove big pauses between the dialogues and see the show still is funny not awkward
I've never found Friends particularly funny even _with_ the ample assist of a laugh track, but this is _still_ 100% funnier than The Big Bang Theory without its laugh track.
Nah BBT is still funnier either way and has actually somewhat relatable characters. Granted it's still only 3/5 material but it's better than Friends' 2/5 at best.
I guess that's technically true. Not a Hugh bar at all tho, sitcoms are some of the only shows where I actually realize I am never going to get that time back
Its a real audience but they are prompted to laugh by cues - which is why they laugh even after several takes obviously - i hate audience laughing whether its canned or not
This feels like a bunch of robots took over the world and are spontaneously making up a T.V. show. It's like they're re-loading after each line of dialogue.
+DaFuqMan Yeah, I've been watching season 1 recently and I noticed that sometimes the laugh track messes up emotional moments. (Season 1 in general was a lot heavier, I'm realizing - I guess as the show went on, it got away from that). There are a few times in the early episodes where a character says something that's probably more deserving of an "awwwww" moment, but instead you hear laughter, which just kind of makes it seem like the 'audience' didn't get what was really going on. It'd be nice to watch friends without a laugh track, but you'd need to edit the show quite a bit so that there weren't these awkward pauses. It'd probably give it a feel closer to Arrested Development or something, with jokes coming in so quickly you might miss some of them, but that'd be kinda cool.
+Joponyhere if they made these knowing there was no laugh track it would have been a smoother transition between the dialogue. I know you know that but just saying.This is definitely weird. It'd be cool to see them act knowing there is no laugh track and compare.
It make me feels in that scene how "uncomfortable" is Chandler(and the actor?) with is "dumb" friend Joey, who seems a lunatic, since Chandler is more earth-grounded and neurotic. If you see that way, in a real situation in a public restaurant, I would be real uncomfortable being both of them hehe.
Well no. Because they are acting in accordance with a laugh track. If they did not plan for the laugh track, it would be much smoother and funny. Comedy is 99% about timing, which is completely lost in this edit.
@@gae_wead_dad_6914 you don’t understand comedic timing. Timing is 80 percent of comedy. This isn’t funny because they were working with the timing of the audience but this video removes them. If the silent parts were cut out and edited properly it’d probably be funnier
@@slimxshady6111 And also, the show trades a LOT of music and sound effects for live laughter. So no, it's not manipulating us much more than other forms of media.
Ken Harris similar characters does NOT mean same show. It means it plays on certain common traits. Bbt is terrible. Friends is still good and always will be
Yeah, the only off putting factor is the wait times. This is a solid scene of jokes that bounces between all of the characters. It's still funny. Unlike TBBT where it seems like they are just horrible to each other and the jokes are so bottom tier comedy.
@@rindoubaka1574 If you don't see the difference then that's on you. There's no bias here. I love sitcoms and have watched a lot, majority with laughtracks. Unlike a lot of people these days, I don't mind them if the comedy and actors are good. Friends is light years ahead of TBBT, laugh track or not.
@@wiictvchannel1112 Wait so you think appealing to some sort of authority on sitcoms based on experience makes you right about this? I think the Big Bang Theory is funnier than Friends. Mostly because I don't really think Friends is funny whatsoever. I'm not really a fan of subjective analysis but comedy is the ultimate form of subjective entertainment. Hence why you think Friends is funny regardless of the laugh track and I think Friends is dull regardless of a laugh track at well. My point being, both TBBT and Friends are horrible without a laugh track. To claim one is actually fine whereas one is terrible is simply coming from a place of bias.
Still holds up pretty well. Even though you definitely picked an especially good scene where the jokes are solid and the characters' personalities really shine through.
I have never really watched the show, so I can't speak to the quality of it as a whole, but you guys are clearly watching this with biased eyes. This is painful to watch.
@@ScrubNigel So knowing the context behind a scene counts as "biased" and watching a clip a decent length into a show's lifespan with no context whatsoever and not understanding why the characters personalities are so integral to the comedy is "fair", huh? Look at yourself.
@@ScrubNigel You actually have to have an idea about the characters and the context to be understand the humor. It's not that they are biased, it's that you have no clue what you're watching.
I mean, that's exactly what it is. Humans have a tendency to copy other's expressions, for instance when you see someone sad or tired(particularly when they're yawning), and the sound of laughter causes us to want to laugh. Therefore, the laugh track is essentially a command for the audience to laugh, and I don't think comedy can get any more artificial than this.
@@Apetitegirly How have they not watched Friends? If so, I know a lot of people who haven't watched Friends, or hell, even shows like The Office for that matter.
Feels like an interactive game where you need to press a button to keep the plotline going
Haha true ^^
Painful even at 1.5x
THATS ANY SHOW, if you remove the background music/fillers
Lmfaooo
"the friends among us"
"The walking friends"
"Life is friends"
"Detroit become friends"
You can hear the laugh track trying to push its way back in
This shit to funny
I imagined a whole Lords of rings/harry potter type battle
Annie C I just did
This made me laugh more than the video
FloatingOer IKR
Yeah haha
It’s like an alternate world where everyone is extremely focused on not cutting off the other person
I actually wouldn't mind this, as someone who gets cut off a lot of the time
That would be beautiful 🥲
@@cat-le1hf lol same
that's the reason i almost started laughing. nothing interesting happened but it was all just so awkward and... not fluid i guess that it was funny.
They're so polite!
Imagine if instead of a laugh track, there was exactly one person laughing.
That would actually make Friends considerably more watchable.
@@billybifocals Of course it would.
genius idea.
@@Ink_Fazkitty Thank You.
And the show will be called "friend"
They look like a class group that has 0 chemistry but try to survive till the end of the year
100 percent relatable
Have you even watched friends?
@@ted8487 what does that have to do with what i said? lmao, i just set an example and a flase scenario
Dude this is brilliant
you mean all the groupchats i’ve been in the fall semester 2019 at my university?
I like how whenever there is supposed to be a laugh track they just awkwardly stare at eachother
0:55
That’s one of the main problems with friends. The episodes are filled with gaps where the actors are just pausing for the audience to laugh.
Ye
FlapJack Gamer its amazing though it looks like humans working off on ai or something lol
That’s probably their signal for the people for the people to cue the track
This just looks like a bunch of strangers were forced to talk to each other
I mean that is basically what acting is
@@nathanboeke838 When it is bad acting, it is noticeable.
with autism. that's not an insult either.
with money
🤣🤣🤣
That was the most awkward thing I've ever watched and now I want to watch the entire series with no laugh track
This scene plays out like an AI wrote a script for a tv show.
Nah. A friend of mine sent me a link a few months ago to an AI writing a script for a batman movie. The highlights of it were batman sometimes being batman, sometimes he is bruce wayne, all times orphan, batman looking for his parents, but they were still dead, two face flipping alfred and alfred landing heads up which means two face goes home, and batman telling alfred to go give birth to robin.
I read this as someone named AL wrote the script and I was wondering “what’s wrong with AL?
Give him a break. Iverson isn't a seasoned scriptwriter
AWKWARD
and acted it 🤣
No laugh track makes this a show about a bunch of functioning alcoholics with considerable mental issues.
D Gayle you mean it's always sunny ?
I tend to think of FRIENDS as a show about teenagers who were zapped into adult bodies. Wait, wasn't Matthew Perry in a movie like that?
Which is why it's so relatable
why, it is also like that with a presence of laugh track
its that WITH laugh tracks
This just makes me think about how awkward it must have been as a actor with all of these pauses...
There is a live audience for Friends, just like in normal theatre. These pauses are part of the play, and they're not moments of silence like in this video.
Oh I see! That makes more sense
+soulfulpizza14 Also, he had to take off all the onomatopoeia to be able to delete the laugh tracks, that's why it seems silent
Louche freeco What exactly do you mean? I do see how he recycled the background resturant noise, though.
damitayogirl Because the laugh track is over some audio, he has to get rid of any bangs or other noises so he can get rid of the laugh track. you can even still hear it when their talking sometimes which can't be helped
“Tennis is more believable…”
*complete silence*
That fucking broke me.
Pov me trying to talk to people but they only have a few of the same intrests as me
The look on Chandlers face at that part is hilarious
The laugh track is the most important cast member
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Laugh tracks are annoying devils you idioy
laugh track is the main character
Dude piling those eggs up was kind of funny like wtf how many eggs do you need?
@@Jamesishappy it's a sitcom with a live audience. They edit the laugh track sometimes to control the duration or loudness of the laugh from the audience. It's not like modern family of the office wherein there's no audience present to laugh at their joke.
Joey saying that girls tell him he's not marriage material is really sad without a laugh track
:D
Sounds mean lol
Funnily enough that was the one line I laughed at.
@@youtubevanced8227 It's his lack of self awareness in what women are telling him.
Most shows are like thatwithout a laugh track. It desensitized us to serious issues.
A lot of mean and hurtful things are said on tv, but then a laugh track comes in and make sit seem okay to say those things. Like hey HAHA Joey always gets told hes not marriage material and dosnt realize women are just rejecting him. Thats so funny.
Oh they called Steve a nerd again.
oh thats so funny.
Its in everything.
Its horrible.
The lack of laughs really shows how little dialogue is actually in the show
it's live audience, not laugh tracks
@@bucketb5778 who's gonna tell him
Tell me what, that not all laugh tracks are canned laughter and the laugh recorded live during shooting is also a track? Or will you try to convince me that there is no live audience?
@@bucketb5778 who cares? It makes no difference
@@lakersfan3269 it literally makes a difference
This is what Friends is like for those of us who don't enjoy the show.
That’s sounds like a you problem
Yea. All two of you
There’s 123 likes on this comment BUT NOPE OP IS DEFINITELY THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN’T LIKE FRIENDS EVERYONE ELSE JUST LOOOOOOVES THIS SHOW RIGHT
I literally just said (paraphrased version of) this!! I don't see what's so interesting about watching a group of people with personality disorders pretending to be friends who clearly aren't. And then to pretend it's funny too. Anyone who enjoys this show has always been a red flag 🚩 in my experience
honestly i think the show is funnier without the laugh track. not because i think the writing is genuinely funny, but because the lack of a laugh track highlights how absurd and unrealistic the plotlines and acting are. so i end up laughing AT the characters instead of with them
Everyone just seems really confused without the laugh tracks and honestly this is what my life looks like
I feel the same.
you don't have to put some sad relatability in it :(
It's because of shows that make people behave like them. Like the office, I love the show but it makes you think being awkward is funny.
there was no laugh track. it's filmed in front of a live audience and they have to wait for the audience to stop laughing before the can carry on.
That's the whole point of this video. The laughter is edited out to see what it's like. (you can still hear faint laughter at the start of some sentences)
Carai, tua cara parece um presuntão kkk.
"Why does Ross, the larger friend, not simply eat the other five?"
Yeah, I’ve always wondered too, you fucking psycho
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When you actually realise how difficult and awkward this must have been to film.
No, because it's not a laugh track, it's an actual audience laughing on the set
@@strawbberrys friends is filmed in front of a live audience
ariel :D yes it was. It was filmed live in front of an audience
ariel :D yes it is, you freaking moron
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I actually find Phoebe to still make me want to laugh even without a laugh track. And even Joey with the eggs. If the pauses were edited out, they both would still make me laugh throughout.
The eggs gag and “I’m drunk right now” were the only two actual good jokes in the entire clip
It's not a bad show, but it really got caught up in the laugh track generation.
@@remirussin7240 2 good jokes in a 2.53 clip. Seems like a good show
@@liamomaonaigh9743 based on the amount of attempted jokes in this 2.53 clip that totally fall flat without the audio telling you to laugh, their hit rate was not particularly great 😂
@@remirussin7240 first of all, not all were attempted jokes. But laugh track is added in every situation just to keep the pace going. People here really don't know much!
"I'm drunk right now. "
awkward silence..
okay that was almost funny.
I died at that because it was so random lmao, it's like when all the popular kids suddenly decide to talk to a nerd and then he tries to pretend how cool he is
@@scottlubin8531 LMAOOOO
That’s so funny, you should be a supervisor on the show
I hate how you are right
@@scottlubin8531 lol
For 2 people who got so drunk that they have memory loss, they look fine the next morning
good catch
The episode does demonstrate that they had to recover before breakfast. But even still lol the plot must go on!
and nobody gets drunk from one mimosa lmao
You, sir, don't know many functioning alcoholics.
Omg this lol the amount of times I've woke up after a night out looking like something out of the walking dead 😂 also the fact that they're not both dying of thirst and not struggling to maintain a proper sentence is such crap
1:28 made me actually laugh
"No, we were talking about tennis. Tennis is more believable"
*Dumb stare*
Same
That made me laugh so hard lmao
Only funniest scene in the whole video
Basically.. Friends is funny cause of Phoebe
that shit wasnt even funny
Alternate title: Friends but everyone is just a bit socially awkward
I don't even know wjere the laugh track was supposed to be
That’s, the point?
Everywhere basically.
It's still more or less just as funny. Though this scene is terrible for this purpose. It supposed to be filled with long pauses caused by misunderstand and pure awkwardness.
@@blueodin0946 that's not the point the point was to see how akward/unfunny it is without the laugh track
same...
*where
Comedy is about timing. They’re pausing to get through laughs so it loses its whit. If you edit out the pauses with some clever cuts it would be interesting to see how it plays.
This.
YES
yeah but freinds isnt funny
@@ricecakesbby3253 what's funny?
Jeremy not friends
Honestly prefer this. The pauses are slightly too long, but at times that also makes it feel more real.
"Tennis is more believable" actually made me chuckle, because the pause made total sense.
Imight Realperson yea i read that wrong my bad i’m handicapped
yeah this actually made me laugh a couple of times, but the pauses for the laugh track were fucking weird. Certainly wouldn't have had me laughing as often as the laugh track would have suggested, the audience laughs like a pack of sycophantic hyenas on nitrous.
Andreas Michael Design Right? Shorten the pauses and most the laughs are still there. “Tennis is more believable” got me. And “tell her she’s not marriage material”
That was the only actual funny joke
Then you would really love The Office. It has no laugh tracks and full of awkward pauses. It's comedic gold
Without the laugh track, it’s so much more awkward and realistic, I actually really like it. It’s giving The Office or Parks and Rec vibes.
yea it’s like a semi-realistic conversation
Yeah I think it's funnier
Was looking for this comment! These other comments are taking the show way too seriously lol.
This is hysterical
Tennis is more believeable
Pause...
Well, I have to admit, I would be speechless for a few seconds if I heard that too
Ha!
Honestly, it's kind of an awkward episode. A lot of pauses are not out of the question here. Only a few of them seemed really unnatural.
It felt like she was betraying tbh xD
It's actually kind of funny now because of how awkward it is.
thats because the comedic timing in the editing is all off
It’s not funny
Like Always Sunny.
Shows you how unfunny the show really is
This
"I'm drunk right now."
*silence*
That was the funniest joke of this whole scene haha but the best part is that it’s only funny BECAUSE there’s no laugh track. The silence has perfect comedic timing
0:30 was such a sweet moment without the laugh track!❤
I can feel myself about to laugh, but I just can’t. This is a really weird feeling
blueballs
゚BobFredIII thanks felt better
Right! it’s like there’s this building tension. Like the ‘When will the bass drop’ song.
Yeah
Bruno Lima you have obviously never done any scientific research into the actual purpose and mechanisms of laughter... sociologically speaking
I’ll play devils advocate, I thought the egg buffet joke was still funny without the laugh track
That seems to be the point of the poster as well. That the show definitely still works as a show without the laugh track. The scenes and dialogue are fine. Of course by editing out the laugh track you're now left with awkward pauses, but a director could recreate all these scenes without a laugh track and it would still be a decent comedy show.
@@zolikoff fax i cant help but laugh at most of the jokes still
The “I’m drunk right now” line is actually a lot funnier without the laugh track
Honestly same I feel like the awkward silence adds to the humor
I still found it funny. The ross/rachel stuff not so much, but all the other characters jokes were good
Malcolm in the middle has no laugh track and yet , it’s still funny
Scrubs, The Office, Modern Family, Arrested Development, Community and more
Brooklyn nine nine
MrYo888779 This doesn’t mean that shows with a laugh track aren’t funny. Laugh tracks are just unnecessary. But if you look past the laugh track, you will find some good jokes.
A Human I literally just said Malcolm is funny
Laugh tracks signifigantly lower the quality for me
This feels more down to earth than actual friends
It's still funny, it's just awkward because it was built around a laugh track so there are a bunch of pauses.
Friends was filmed in front of a live audience
Either way, they're pausing intentionally. Take out the pauses and the script/characters are still leagues funnier than Big Bang Theory.
The outdoor scenes too?
It wasn't built around a laugh track. Sitcoms are filmed with live laughter but they have to use a laugh track to make laughter consistent when editing takes together, otherwise the editing would be to obvious.
It's them holding the joke/punchline until the audience laughter dies down, and it's so weird to see without hearing the laughs.
Now we need The Office, but WITH a laughtrack
Raccoon Man dear god no
Already exists lol
No
That what makes it pure
Blasphemy
I can still hear the laugh tracks in my head
Same
Same, and I didn't even watch friends at all lol
actually at around 0:36 you can hear a little bit of it
Same
Am I the only one who found this significantly more funny xD. The awkward pauses killed me lmao
its still pretty funny even with the awkward pauses
Is it though?
the only thing funny about this is how bad and awkward this is. the jokes are just meh
syl woest there is a sense they all know each other very well and take the good with the bad. they all seem like really old friends! and the pauses feel to me like they are thinking something like "you idiot."
I'll never understand how this is funny.
Still a cheap way to save up show time..
I laughed immediately at "It's a buffet, man!"
That insn't funny lol it's funny that you think it is though
Humor is Subjective.
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72 people disagree, man!
+AverageGamingBros it is in a way but this show is actually not funny. Its possible someone can think that it is, and it may be to them. But it actually isnt funny in reality. Like someone laughing at 9/11
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Prove it.
I think I’ve watched too much friends I can still hear the laugh tracks
LOL!
Same!
THE LAUGH TRACKS! I CAN STILL HEAR THEM! THEY'RE UNDER MY SKIN
The laugh track is the most basic level of brainwashing and conditioning.
WOKE lmao. laugh tracks are added by the fucking directors, not the evil gubment. they're in place for where a live audience would usually laugh. they just want to make us feel like we're part of a live audience. it goes way back and started because sometimes jokes weren't understood by the entire audience. but no, the comedy directors want to brainwash and condition us...into laughing. evil af. jesus man. settle down
@@superduperjew it's all part of Satan's plan. To make us laugh at everything...
@Truth Lives that has what to do with laugh tracks?
@Truth Lives All those things are funny, and I'm tired of pretending they aren't
@Truth Lives or he has a weird sense of humour. I grew up on friends but I don't find that stuff funny. I find things funny if they're funny. Brainwashing only works on the weak and followers. So you cant put that on everyone that watches a show that probably billions know of
This seems so sincere now. The humor is so much more pure. I actually like this.
...humor?
Elías Alejandro Fernández yes humor. Do you know what humor means?
When was the funny bit, explain it to me (i'm kinda dumb)
Elías Alejandro Fernández oh I see, your trying to anger the fellow
"I like laugh tracks because they let you know when you're supposed to laugh"
The laugh tracks were supposed to leave the audience laugh without interrupting. Back when friends was recorded it made sense, and some episodes actually had an audience. When comedies have laugh tracks today it's just exactly that.
Drew gooden?
No shit
@@Johncarver7777 I dont care if I’m laughing at a show and I miss another joke. I would much rather have that than pauses like this. That just gives the show replay value. You can come back a year later, watch the same show, and pick up jokes you missed on your first watch through. And the more jokes there are, the more replay value it has because it gives you more to re-watch.
@@PtylerBeats YOU are talking about yourself. Friends wasn't meant for your generation. If I recall friends started around 1993. It clearly didn't intend to be groundbreaking, nor was it expected to be such a hit. However it followed the same format fraiser or Seinfeld had. Because the format was meant for a generation much older than you and I. Laughing at it would be like laughing at VCR. "So stoopid, it didn't even had touch screens" meanwhile it's the precursor of many stuff you watch everyday.
In Phoebe's words "I'm sorry. There's laughing in my head'😂
Unlike big bang theory, this actually makes me laugh a bit. The only bad thing is the pauses (which are natural for a laugh track based show).
+PapiDimmi the pauses in here seem more appropriate
unlike Big bang theory where it's weird
The pauses here are the actors playing off the live audiences laughter
TBBT has live audience, too.
There is no such thing as a show based off of laugh track,,all Sitcoms are in front of live studio audiences but they add laugh track to cover up takes edited together, otherwise the laughing would be inconsistent.
Becuz friends is a better show
" _I'm drunk right now!_ " that one actually got to me. The rest was so stale I found myself actually repeatedly checking the timestamp going "is it over yet? this is the longest 2 minutes and 52 seconds of my life"
The laugh track is playing in my head just at the right parts.
I feel like watching these videos of sitcoms without laugh tracks before bed is going to fuck with my dreams
I bursted out laughing at the look Chandler gives Phoebe at 1:32 after she told Monica they were talking about “tennis”
That was the best line
ME TOO
I swear this was the only hilarious part lol
You are the canned laughter now
Actually, not that bad. I think the awkward pauses by actors are meant for a laugh track. If they acted 'snappy' it would be better.
***** Fast
That's exactly what I thought
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is a good example of snappy
Thank you, Captain Obvious!!
This is the most awkward thing I’ve ever seen
big bang theory without laugh track is far more awkward than this. well that's just my. opinion.
Okay but the ‘it’s a buffet, man’ was actually funny to me lol
Friends is actually better without the laugh track. Especially Phoebe.
That was weird.
indeed, you had cheers, friends, seinfeld, home improvement, family matters, who shot with live studio audience
I agree. Phoebe is fucking awesome. Dark as
When she said “I’m already drunk” I laughed out loud even without the laugh track
Lisa has some superhuman delivery.
This feels like “close proximity acquaintances” the show
Big downgrade 🥺
This show actually has a pretty serious tone.
1:48 guy in the middle is me watching any episode of friends
The Phoebe and Joey characters are very weird with out the laugh track.
davesgk that was always the point of their characters tho. Random and out of nowhere.
In some bits I think it could work. Like with the drinking joke at the end, that pause is very believable.
Phoebe seems to make me laugh out loud the most.
@@Bruceybaby2009 I was in highschool in the 90s, so I understand the premise of the show. It's just very weird and not funny with the cued laughter.
both phoebe's jokes still work honestly
pacing seems off, but when you compare it to Big Bang Theory you really see the difference in both line-delivery and comedic timing, there's enough subtle expression, movement and good delivery to make friends work regardless. whereas Big Bang Theory just feels dead.
because none of the actors understand the jokes they are making in Big Bang Theory
A2Z83 I don't think the writers understand those jokes either.
@@A2Z83 what jokes?
Both are filmed with a live audience and the pacing is just them waiting for the laughs to stop so they can say the next lines
The difference between the Big Bang Theory and Friends is that Friends without the laugh track is funny with an awkward silence. The Big Bang Theory is just one long awkward silence.
I am thinking if one adds a laugh track in my life then would definitely look and feel more appealing than it is. ❤️
Dementors gotcha feeling down?
Phoebe: I’m drunk right now
Everyone: 👁👄👁
Wow this ones still kinda funny
Nope.
AyyGin: I try to not conflate pathos with humor.
Friends is always funny
Nah it ain’t
Fuck this show...
I was laughing so I sounded like the laugh track so I laughed. Wait....
This is scary.. imagine what we've been programed to laugh about
So you only laugh because of the laugh tracks and not because a joke is funny
I have rarely ever laughed at any show so that's fine with. e
We have been programed to hate laugh tracks but no music foe setting a tone
@@daraghokane4236 I disagree, I know a lot of people, including myself, who grew up watching shows with the laugh track and have got so used to it that they don't mind it. All this talk about "being programmed" are you a fucking computer or is your brain that small?
You laughed when a laugh track played ? Weird...
Thank you for that. That was really an eye-opener. Without the fake laughter it's SHIT!
Friends isn't a laughing track it's a real studio audience.
Yes, but I read somewhere that episodes with multiple parts had recorded laughs. However all other episodes laughs were real.
Well they tape a scene like a million times so they pick the best laugh plus if u can't hear the talking over the laugh then they pick a machine to play a quiet one
+John Simkins They mix real laughs with canned laughter to fill in gaps. If you watch more episodes you start to recognize specific laughs.
yea i saw a behind the scenes thing, and in it, jennifer said a joke and the audience laughed and you couldnt hear the rest, so the put in a machine laugh so t would be quiet when she talked.
LMFAO I HATE THAT FUCKING LAUGH! It's the same one you hear on How I Met Your Mother. They need to ban that laugh from any other show, ever.
It’s not bad, it’s just entirely structured for the next joke.
Chandler Whitchurch but that’s the thing they are not really jokes, just witty conversation.
And also based on previous circumstance and dramatic irony for the audience. Like you have to know the context from the rest of the episode and previous scenes to get the jokes. Kind of an odd choice for an experiment like this.
rorz999 Lol Seinfeld is easily the greatest sitcom of all time, it had a laugh track. Laugh track doesn’t equal bad, it’s just an old format.
@@rorz999 eh its better thn big bang theory, still watchable
rorz999 the comedy of friends relies more on the context than the laugh track. You have to actually watch the show because it all ties itself together; a lot of the jokes are built on material from previous episodes
It's partly bad because without the laughing there's just empty space - it doesn't flow naturally.
That's the point, without it, it shows how unnatural and surreal this all becomes.
No but when laughter fills those gaps it's less obvious there's a break in the dialogue. This video exaggerates the problem
That's the whole point.
Tim James that’s the point all shows with laugh tracks have long pauses like thos
this*
this is one of the videos blessed by me for being one of the things I watched when I was high for the first time
This is like real life without the laugh tracks 🤣
Matthew Nance t...that’s the point
@@jcl418 why would anyone turn their laugh track off?
Man I think you need to meet a psychiatrist if you hear laugh tracks normally in real life
Real life is funnier
Dude the point of these videos is that the laugh tracks aren't there to show you how awkward these scenes are, how abnormal, non-life like they look
The only difference between a removed laugh-track from TBBT and Friends:
Friends is actually funny.
Actually the only difference is that TBBT doesn't have a track.
...
The same guy who uploaded this also uploaded TBBT with no laugh track.
Nice try though.
Like I just said, TBBT doesn't have a track. It's a live audience.
...you're an honest idiot, aren't you?
You've never been to a filming, have you?
They tell you before shooting starts that when the sign lights up you HAVE TO LAUGH. Even if it's not funny. You can't honestly think show's go with JUST a live audience's laughter.
Naivety at its best.
***** Being told when to laugh doesn't make it a track, though. It's still live.
I think Friends is a funny series. But taking out the laughter track makes these characters seem much more tragic. I would love to be friends with someone like Phoebe. But in the no laughter world, I think I would avoid her. She causes awkward silences, and none of them see the funny side.
Friends isn’t funny
@@garrythomas492 You shouldn't have bothered watching the video then.
@@Laffy-ix5xy he said it twice lol
@@yeokonma Who said what twice?
Actually the thing is there is so much pause for laughing track in between. Just remove big pauses between the dialogues and see the show still is funny not awkward
Without the laugh track you realize how dysfunctional the whole group is
It’s just miserable people being rude to each other
I've never found Friends particularly funny even _with_ the ample assist of a laugh track, but this is _still_ 100% funnier than The Big Bang Theory without its laugh track.
Big bang theory is unbearable to watch without the laugh track, hell even with the laugh track it is not funny at all
@@4CelciusDegree It's a Chuck Lorre show. They're all horrible.
Nah BBT is still funnier either way and has actually somewhat relatable characters. Granted it's still only 3/5 material but it's better than Friends' 2/5 at best.
@@4CelciusDegree It's unbearable to watch with one as well.
I guess that's technically true. Not a Hugh bar at all tho, sitcoms are some of the only shows where I actually realize I am never going to get that time back
Pheobe and Joey are great even without it. But yeah the pauses are unnatural without laughter so.
There is real laughing going on from the studio audience so the pauses are just them waiting for the laughs to stop before the next line
Its a real audience but they are prompted to laugh by cues - which is why they laugh even after several takes obviously - i hate audience laughing whether its canned or not
If they keep the first take and the laugh drowns out the characters lines they’ll shorten the laugh in the edit
not really. In real life people need a second to think about things too.
This feels like a bunch of robots took over the world and are spontaneously making up a T.V. show. It's like they're re-loading after each line of dialogue.
This makes me appreciate even more Malcolm in the middle.
It's not bad without the laugh track! I found myself chuckling. The pauses are weird, but that's to be expected.
Yeah I think the pauses make it awkward but still funny
+DaFuqMan Yeah, I've been watching season 1 recently and I noticed that sometimes the laugh track messes up emotional moments. (Season 1 in general was a lot heavier, I'm realizing - I guess as the show went on, it got away from that). There are a few times in the early episodes where a character says something that's probably more deserving of an "awwwww" moment, but instead you hear laughter, which just kind of makes it seem like the 'audience' didn't get what was really going on.
It'd be nice to watch friends without a laugh track, but you'd need to edit the show quite a bit so that there weren't these awkward pauses. It'd probably give it a feel closer to Arrested Development or something, with jokes coming in so quickly you might miss some of them, but that'd be kinda cool.
+Joponyhere if they made these knowing there was no laugh track it would have been a smoother transition between the dialogue. I know you know that but just saying.This is definitely weird. It'd be cool to see them act knowing there is no laugh track and compare.
Look like family guy, during flashback
It's pretty bad.
i still laughed at the Chandler Joey interaction.
And Phoebe 😂😂😂😂😂
It make me feels in that scene how "uncomfortable" is Chandler(and the actor?) with is "dumb" friend Joey, who seems a lunatic, since Chandler is more earth-grounded and neurotic. If you see that way, in a real situation in a public restaurant, I would be real uncomfortable being both of them hehe.
Then you have a condition.
Too bad, it’s not funny
ExplosiveRage72 1 Humor is subjective, you tool
I can still hear the audience laughing in my head
Me too.
It goes from sitcom to soap opera 😂😂
I felt like that was a good description of Friends in its last few years.
"I'm drunk right now" yeah that got a laugh out of me
lol " we were just talking about bacon"
"no we were talking about tennis, tennis is more believable"
HahahahHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHHA
Pretty sure it's "baking" not "bacon"
The awkward silence is funnier without the laugh track for that particular joke
I love how the comment section is funnier than the episode itself
That why "The Office" is my favorite sitcom.
It really does show just how unfunny a lot of these things are, when the show isn't directly telling you to laugh
Well no. Because they are acting in accordance with a laugh track. If they did not plan for the laugh track, it would be much smoother and funny. Comedy is 99% about timing, which is completely lost in this edit.
@@slimxshady6111 Not really, none of these jokes were funny. They just seemed sad
@@gae_wead_dad_6914 you don’t understand comedic timing. Timing is 80 percent of comedy. This isn’t funny because they were working with the timing of the audience but this video removes them. If the silent parts were cut out and edited properly it’d probably be funnier
@@slimxshady6111 And also, the show trades a LOT of music and sound effects for live laughter. So no, it's not manipulating us much more than other forms of media.
@@lookinthemirrorugly8874 Exactly, people are clueless lol
still pretty funny, much better than Big Bang theory
Saying Friends and BBT are the same show is one of the worst things I've ever heard, Friends was actually pretty damn funny
Dwyn meh, friends is lame and outdated
Ken Harris similar characters does NOT mean same show. It means it plays on certain common traits. Bbt is terrible. Friends is still good and always will be
Anton Komarov Ha ok ya 13 year old
They are both funny
Are you really that obsessed with big bang theory that you have to compare
Actually lol'd irl at Lisa Kudrow's delivery of "I'm drunk right now"
I mean honestly cut out the awkward silence when they are waiting for the audience too quiet down. And this actually works
Yeah, the only off putting factor is the wait times. This is a solid scene of jokes that bounces between all of the characters. It's still funny. Unlike TBBT where it seems like they are just horrible to each other and the jokes are so bottom tier comedy.
Yep not the funniest scene here, especially without context. But it still works
@@wiictvchannel1112 I literally don't see how this is any different from TBBT. It's more believable that you have a bias towards Friends over it.
@@rindoubaka1574 If you don't see the difference then that's on you. There's no bias here. I love sitcoms and have watched a lot, majority with laughtracks. Unlike a lot of people these days, I don't mind them if the comedy and actors are good. Friends is light years ahead of TBBT, laugh track or not.
@@wiictvchannel1112 Wait so you think appealing to some sort of authority on sitcoms based on experience makes you right about this? I think the Big Bang Theory is funnier than Friends. Mostly because I don't really think Friends is funny whatsoever. I'm not really a fan of subjective analysis but comedy is the ultimate form of subjective entertainment. Hence why you think Friends is funny regardless of the laugh track and I think Friends is dull regardless of a laugh track at well. My point being, both TBBT and Friends are horrible without a laugh track. To claim one is actually fine whereas one is terrible is simply coming from a place of bias.
Still holds up pretty well. Even though you definitely picked an especially good scene where the jokes are solid and the characters' personalities really shine through.
to be fair there were hardly scenes where the show didn't have all of that
I have never really watched the show, so I can't speak to the quality of it as a whole, but you guys are clearly watching this with biased eyes.
This is painful to watch.
@@ScrubNigel So knowing the context behind a scene counts as "biased" and watching a clip a decent length into a show's lifespan with no context whatsoever and not understanding why the characters personalities are so integral to the comedy is "fair", huh? Look at yourself.
@@ScrubNigel You actually have to have an idea about the characters and the context to be understand the humor. It's not that they are biased, it's that you have no clue what you're watching.
Unpopular opinion : the laugh tracks tells people when to laugh because almost all their "jokes" are not funny.
agree
I mean, that's exactly what it is. Humans have a tendency to copy other's expressions, for instance when you see someone sad or tired(particularly when they're yawning), and the sound of laughter causes us to want to laugh. Therefore, the laugh track is essentially a command for the audience to laugh, and I don't think comedy can get any more artificial than this.
Disagree
Disagree. I don't laugh with Nickelodeon "jokes" at Victorious, iCarly, and the new shit they are releasing, even with laugh tracks.
@@MrEaglenator I don't either, nor do I with Friends. But if you're predisposed to consuming comedy, you're way more susceptible to these effects.
phoebe is absolutely everything in this scene
not "everything"
@@iknowexactlywhoyouare8701 lmfao
As someone who has never watched Friends, I laughed.
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How?
Yeah even though these edits make a good point, the show is legitimately funny :)
@@Apetitegirly How have they not watched Friends? If so, I know a lot of people who haven't watched Friends, or hell, even shows like The Office for that matter.
Yeah. still pretty funnny without the laugh track.
“Tennis is more believable” haha
I JUST REALISED THIS IS HOW IT WAS WHEN THEY FILMED IT
No, it wasn’t. It was recorded before a studio audience.
When u want to laugh at the pauses but then u can't cuz it feels weird to laugh alone .