I love that show!!!
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That was mediocre at best. :-)
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I'll watch tonights episode just to verify my disinterest in it.
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JFC :-) already. You dont like the show. We get it. You 2 cry about this show more than a little girl with skinned knees. Fuck.
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I was defending the show against criticisms of it using a laugh track!
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We're not the People's Front of Judea, we're the Judean People's Front!
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The jokes are so stupid and the laugh track is....well, laughable.
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Not a laugh track, live audience. This subject was addressed by the producer.
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I liked last night's episode. Some very creative lines.
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That's actually true, supposedly. The producers swear that they use a live studio audience. I wonder where they find these people, though. This live audience of real humans sounds so artificial, the laughter so forced.
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Depending on the popularity of the show, studio audiences are generally made up of tourists and temp workers.

If it's a popular show like Seinfeld, BBT, Two & Half Men, etc, it's about 80% tourists and 20% temps.

If it's just a medium rated show, it can be as much as 80% temps or more.
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Temps as in 'paid to laugh & applaud'?
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Yep. It's a very common practice for daytime talk shows and anything filmed before a "live studio audience".

FWIW, there are monitors that instruct the audience to laugh, gasp, etc.
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I feel like I should already have known this, but I didn't. Interesting.
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Hmmmm, I've thought that the audience was like a paying audience. I didn't know they were paid to go. Thats crazy.

How much do the tourists pay?
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