Response to Klosterman

I agree completely with Klosterman. I think laugh tracks are stupid and annoying. I feel like they are used because the producers feel like we aren’t smart enough to get the jokes on our own, if there even are jokes to get. I think Klosterman is right when he says “canned laughter represents the worst qualities of insecure people.” It seems like laugh tracks are used to the writers will think that they wrote something funny even if people don’t think it is. The canned laughter makes them think at least someone is laughing at the script they spent so much time on even if it is prompted in-studio laughing. When he moves into laughless sitcoms he says that we take them more seriously which is totally true. We don’t have to be prompted to laugh at something or feel awkward if he don’t laugh with the laugh track. They give us the opportunity to think for ourselves instead of conforming to what others believe.  Not only does he talk about laugh tracks but he talks about how Americans laugh at everything even when it’s not funny just to fill in space which I see every day, or I do every day. When in an awkward situation I just laugh even if nothing that was said was funny, it’s reaction. We have been raised and taught to use laughter even when it’s not needed so now when people laugh you don’t know if it’s real or fabricated.