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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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I love Seinfeld. I would love it more without the stupid fucking Laugh Track.
Well, for one Seinfeld's laugh track isn't actually a laugh track, it's people laughing at the show. Second I never notice it because I'm always laughing.
Grimmlokk
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Well, if you watch that shitpile that is Big Bang Theory without the Laugh Track you see how brutally unfunny it really is. The problem with Seinfeld is that I guess it being a live studio audience makes it harder/impossible to actually split the audio tracks and remove it. So the videos of Seinfeld without it are awful because they just mute the show for a second where the laughing would be.
Though, they did use a laugh track sometimes for remote scenes. So I guess that's not really the reason there's no good versions out there without them.
You can take the "laugh track" out of Seinfeld, it's still mics in the audience.
BBT has a live studio audience as well by the way.
The problem with removing the tracks from either of the shows is the comedy timing is allowing for the laughter. It's unfair to watch either show without the track, the silence is deafening.
BBT has a live studio audience as well by the way.
The problem with removing the tracks from either of the shows is the comedy timing is allowing for the laughter. It's unfair to watch either show without the track, the silence is deafening.
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Vaclav
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Sidenote on Community - not sure if the repeats show anywhere since I DVR it and just caught it yesterday - but Wednesday's @Midnight (Comedy Central 12 midnight, obviously) had Danny Pudi, Gillian Jacobs and Jim Rash as guests (as well as Neil DeGrasse Tyson for a brief reading) for anyone curious about how they do stuff on the fly it's worth a check into.
Grimmlokk
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Whole episode is on CC's site.
Haven't watched it yet, but it's on the DVR. @Midnight is occasionally hilarious, just depends on the guests usually. Kyle Kinane's episodes are amazing.
I am curious about the Hickey Abed dynamic. Abed turned Troy into another manboy. I wonder if they will have hickey do the opposite with Abed. Also i really hope there is one Hickey and Abed in the morning skit where he just sits there like wtf is happening.
Vaclav
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Hannibal Buress has been my favorite of the guests to repeat so far for @Midnight. But yea, it's variable as you'd expect since it's apparently done completely live and off the cuff though - some comedians are better on the fly than others. (I was actually really surprised at Rash being that I know his award is for writing not anything improv related - he did amazing on the fly compared to my expectation)
Grimmlokk
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If you ever hear him in interviews he's really good off the cuff. His partner Nat Faxon too. Both of them have Improv backgrounds with the Groundlings so it makes sense.
Also Hannibal Burress is on Broad City, which is awesome and he's amazing.
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that episode really felt like a return to fantastic dan harmon episodes, really solid and great rhythm. Kugler was played by Mitch Horiwitz I believe, the creator of Arrested Development. Anyone know if the episode was a homage to a specific 70s film, I saw starburnz as Radoz (?) but have never seen that Sean Connery film so dunno if thats the plot.
that episode really felt like a return to fantastic dan harmon episodes, really solid and great rhythm. Kugler was played by Mitch Horiwitz I believe, the creator of Arrested Development. Anyone know if the episode was a homage to a specific 70s film, I saw starburnz as Radoz (?) but have never seen that Sean Connery film so dunno if thats the plot.
Daezuel
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The outfits were from Logan's Run. (at least most of the aesthetic seems from that film, sandman guards, level 4 outfits, white robes)
When the episode started with the meowmeow stuff I was certain I wasn't going to like it then it turned brilliant. Just love how far they go into fantasy on this show.
When the episode started with the meowmeow stuff I was certain I wasn't going to like it then it turned brilliant. Just love how far they go into fantasy on this show.
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I think it was an homage to dystopian novels/movies in general. There were references to Logan's Run, 1984, Brave New World, Zardoz, etc.
Azrayne
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Don't understand how they did whole story arcs about how horrible a person Pierce is, but have yet to have one solid episode devoted to calling Shirley out on what a terrible friend she is. Her judgmental and hypocritical behavior is at least as bad as Pierce's racism etc., but at least Pierce was up front about what he was and had to suffer some sort of consequences (as well as having plenty of exploration into why he acted the way he did), while Shirley constantly gets away with treating the whole group like shit and the show mostly ignores the fact that her 'kind christian housewife' thing is a complete sham.
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Really? HB is on Broad City? Sonuvabitch, I've got a show to add to the queue and catch up on. He kind of reminds me of a black Stephen Wright - which has been a style of comedy I've really felt a drought of recently. (Besides S. Wright's recent work... but he's not doing much anymore that was what the first in 10 years or something?)