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The million-dollar at least question: Can a traditional multi-camera, laugh-track comedy work on a night so devoted to single-camera drollery?
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Its edgy, mockumentary style, oblique humor and subtle sidelong glances "down the pipe" (showbiz speak for directly to the camera) were completely at odds with the laugh-track sitcoms Americans had long made their preferred prime-time desserts.
Upwardly mobile: Steve Carell rises above the material in 'Dinner for Schmucks' 2010
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It also helps that Nick is a stand-up comic, adding to the laugh-track.
Hellbride (2007) 2010
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Humans are just an after thought, the celestial equivalent of a laugh-track.
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A laugh-track would definitely help with its ratings because people will realize that this is all a joke.
Archive 2009-02-01 The Verger 2009
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Maybe what is missing for the THE CHURCH is a laugh-track.
Archive 2009-02-01 The Verger 2009
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People in the laugh-track room probably did laugh aloud more than viewers in the other room, but when surveyed afterward, the groups reported enjoying the show equally.
Anna Jane Grossman: Adieu Larry Gelbart...and Laugh Tracks 2009
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Scrubs had the funny, but also the serious, as well as innovative quirks like no laugh-track, surreal daydream sequences, and music courtesy of bands decidedly not of superstar status.
iamrazorwing: My Favorite Show iamrazorwing 2009
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Maybe what is missing for the THE CHURCH is a laugh-track.
denial ain't just a river in egypt The Verger 2009
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A laugh-track would definitely help with its ratings because people will realize that this is all a joke.
denial ain't just a river in egypt The Verger 2009
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