In a a time when TV shows were primarily filmed in front of a studio audience (think “I Love Lucy ... about the laugh track and you find mixed reviews. “No showrunner ever forgets his ...

I Love Lucy Day celebrates the groundbreaking ... in 35mm film in front of a live audience, meaning there were no canned laugh tracks, but real recorded laughs from the audience instead.

Laugh tracks and rabid, pumped-up audiences go back as far as “I Love Lucy” (Desi Arnaz ... single-camera, with no laugh track,” said John Lithgow, who stars in “20 Good Years,” a ...

And we shouldn’t feel like apologists either (fuck the “for its time” modifier, I Love Lucy is a great show). So yes, I think the laugh track-driven multi-camera sitcom is worth defending.

TV sitcoms were taking off in America, and hugely popular shows like I Love Lucy continued ... that's their way of saying, 'No, this is not a Charley Douglas laugh track — fake laughing.

It’s not hard to put together a canon of great TV comedies: Everybody would agree that popular phenomenons like I Love Lucy, Cheers ... re all worth a look and a laugh.

“This is the type of situation Lucy is so great at,” he remarked. “There’s no comedian in the business ... “Our editor and sound cutter timed that laugh and recorded it as the longest ...

Caught between takes here, the ever-poised Vance and the gruff, no-nonsense Frawley ... Long before studio tours and laugh tracks became standard, lucky fans of I Love Lucy got to witness comedy ...

That got Scott and her colleagues thinking about how different people respond to laugh tracks like the ones used in television comedies from “I Love Lucy” to “Friends.” How does the brain ...