Things you like to put on biscuits

[WOM]

Yeah, see, if you'd have been here longer, we could have driven down to Bob Evans in Buffalo and eaten ourselves into a breakfast coma.

[Toby Gymshorts]

NOW you tell me.

I still have a lot of love for Over Easy on Yonge, though. Excellent Eggs Benedict.

[San Bernardhinault]

Does this even include shows that are filmed before a genuine live audience? ie, Big Bang Theory, etc.

For me. Big Bang Theory is a classic example. It's desperately unfunny yet people "laugh" where they're told to. It makes me very uncomfortable. It makes me even more uncomfortable in a communal setting where more than one person is looking around thinking "Are any of you laughing? What did I miss?"

There was some new comedy I started watching a few months ago and there was a really overbearing laugh track - and for the first couple of minutes I thought it was ironic, because it was so intrusive and so loud at such unfunny moments. It was only after a while did I realise that it was actually a traditional laugh track. I had to stop watching the show (admittedly, partly because it was so lacking in jokes that it was obvious that the laugh track was misplaced).

[WOM]

NOW you tell me.

I still have a lot of love for Over Easy on Yonge, though. Excellent Eggs Benedict.

Bob Evans is more like a pound of fried potatoes in a skillet, covered in gravy, bacon, eggs and maybe a side of something.

[treibeis]

Over Easy on Yonge, though.

That's Youthspeak, isn't it? You rascal.

[ad hoc]

Does this even include shows that are filmed before a genuine live audience? ie, Big Bang Theory, etc.

Pretty much.
Watching a sitcom with no laugh track is a much better experience than one with one. Those filmed in front of a live audience are better than ones with canned laughter obviously, but I'd still way rather none at all

[Femme Folle]

This is a strange conversation.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Bob Evans is more like a pound of fried potatoes in a skillet, covered in gravy, bacon, eggs and maybe a side of something.

Talk dirty to me!

[Toby Gymshorts]

That's Youthspeak, isn't it? You rascal.

You should go to Canadia, you'd love it. They force you to learn this stuff at the airport when you arrive.

[WOM]

This is a strange conversation.

ad hoc's a strange man. He demands to be the only one in the room laughing.

[pebblethefish]

As I understand it, laughter is a leftover from our ape ancestors, who would bare their teeth and make a loud noise to scare away members of the troupe who were letting the side down or were a detriment to the group. That's why we find people falling over so funny; it's the leftover wish to make a noise at the person who is making mistakes and is a liability. Obviously this was a group behaviour - one ape laughing at you wouldn't make you leave the group and starve in isolation, so our instincts are hard-wired to respond to the sound and sight of others laughing to join in.

That's why if you're at a live comedy show you'll laugh out load on multiple occasions, whereas watching exactly the same show at home will rarely raise a chuckle.

[Lobachevsky]

from biscuit toppings to anthopology in a few easy steps

[ad hoc]

Last night after being on this thread i was cooking in the kitchen with a podcast on, and was absolutely pissing myself laughing. I dunno, apparently that's weird behaviour.

[diggedy derek]

I like to watch sitcoms with the laughter track on, but sat alone and stony-faced in my room at home in the dark.