Speak Up Saturday

[feurioo]

Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

Comments

[violateraindrop]

Thanks for the in-depth explanation! I remember watching some of Roseanne, but I couldn't tell.

Mike Schur generally seems to forgo the laugh track which I appreciate. I tend to favor his comedies. Honestly, I would not be watching Abbott Elementary if it had a laugh track. I feel that would make the show unfunny to me.

Kevin Can F**k Himself really did job of using the canned laughter to create the sitcom atmosphere vs. the drama side. I really need to watch the second season of that...

[shadowkat]

Michael Schur's comedies just don't work with it - they appear to be mainly on location or have a documentary style. Also multi-camera.

I don't think they use canned laughter any longer? If it is a show that is post-20th Century and has a laugh track? It's probably a studio audience.

[violateraindrop]

Kevin Can F**k Himself is actually a drama (a rather depressing one). Wikipedia describes it as "The show presents contrasting perspectives of her experience - a typical sitcom wife when Allison is with her husband Kevin, shown with a multiple-camera setup and canned laughter, and as a woman navigating a difficult personal path, filmed in the single-camera setup more common to television dramas." They also desaturate the colors for the drama scenes. In this case it would make no sense to use an audience since that's not even half of the story (the majority are non-sitcom scenes I'd say).