I can't believe I am defending 'Friends'
It was filmed before an audience. Removing the laughter is like filming a stand up comedian and then releasing the DVD with the laughter dubbed out. It would just look awkward and weird and just be someone standing up on a stage talking shit to themselves in silence (or like a Jason Mountford show, amirgight, amiright?)

Also, the script is paced to allow laughter gaps, so of course it looks weird if that laughter is then removed. The Office, for example, was filmed with no laugh track and is paced differently. That would look weird and awkward if it had gaps where laughter should go too.

Finally, I may not have been clear, there is a difference between a laugh track and canned laughter.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 11 Aug 2011, 12:07, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

^What Bitchtits said^
Also, laughter is a social, bonding behaviour, and the discourse infectious.

Also - *gasp!* I quite like Friends - some of it's really quite well-written and acted, I think.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 11 Aug 2011, 12:28, Reply)

Yup
for all it's many faults in terms of dragging storylines, it was a very sharply scripted show joke wise.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 11 Aug 2011, 12:29, Reply)

I never had you down as a troll

( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 13:57, Reply)