Posted May 12 During the last WAN Show, May 10,2024, they talked about how they couldn’t do the kind of jokes they want to do because a small percentage of the audience doesn’t think it’s a joke and takes it too far. What if they pulled a sitcom trick, and just used laugh tracks when they make a joke that could potentially be misunderstood? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 12 That would just make it even more tacky CPU: AMD Ryzen 3700x / GPU: Asus Radeon RX 6750XT OC 12GB / RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB DDR4-3200 MOBO: MSI B450m Gaming Plus / NVME: Corsair MP510 240GB / Case: TT Core v21 / PSU: Seasonic 750W / OS: Win 10 Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 12 I don't think that will stop the people who are looking to for opportunities to cause chaos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 12 46 minutes ago, zacharrison said: During the last WAN Show, May 10,2024, they talked about how they couldn’t do the kind of jokes they want to do because a small percentage of the audience doesn’t think it’s a joke and takes it too far. What if they pulled a sitcom trick, and just used laugh tracks when they make a joke that could potentially be misunderstood? Ever watch Big Bang Theory with laugh tracks turned off? It's a 1000x more cringy than the actual show. No, just no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 12 Yeah, I don't think the issue is people don't realise it's a joke. It's likely people who just want something to be mad about. Those people aren't going to hear a laugh track and go "Oh, it was a joke", they'll probably be more mad that whatever they want to be offended about was treated like a joke by playing a laugh track. Laugh tracks are tacky. Only time they should be used is when Linus makes a really awful dad joke just to make fun of how unfunny his dad jokes are. For context on the discussion here's the WAN show clip (1h14m mark). CPU: Intel i7 6700k | Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170x Gaming 5 | RAM: 2x16GB 3000MHz Corsair Vengeance LPX | GPU: Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080ti | PSU: Corsair RM750x (2018) | Case: BeQuiet SilentBase 800 | Cooler: Arctic Freezer 34 eSports | SSD: Samsung 970 Evo 500GB + Samsung 840 500GB + Crucial MX500 2TB | Monitor: Acer Predator XB271HU + Samsung BX2450 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 14 I’d say they should stick with it and let the people who can’t understand what a joke is find somewhere else to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 14 Using laugh tracks to indicate a joke is like saying, "Charge your phone 3 hours ago" It sucks. If a laugh track is needed to signal that it is a joke, it was not that great for your audience anyway. This is not a sitcom or a crappy comedian. I think that using a laugh track to indicate that it is supposed to be funny makes the viewer feel disconnected from the content and decide it is not for them. Also, not indicating whether or not a joke was there makes it more rewatchable to hear something new you wouldn'tve enjoyed otherwise. On 5/12/2024 at 2:19 PM, Spotty said: Only time they should be used is when Linus makes a really awful dad joke just to make fun of how unfunny his dad jokes are. The only socially acceptable use, even then, should be treated as salt. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ZYnLQP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 14 On 5/12/2024 at 10:28 AM, zacharrison said: During the last WAN Show, May 10,2024, they talked about how they couldn’t do the kind of jokes they want to do because a small percentage of the audience doesn’t think it’s a joke and takes it too far. What if they pulled a sitcom trick, and just used laugh tracks when they make a joke that could potentially be misunderstood? "Canned laughter" used to be a thing because at some point ALL television shows were live. When it became possible to "film before a live studio audience", you see all the "pauses" in dialogue for the audience to laugh and it comes off as unnatural. So they just stopped doing that in the 90's and now stick canned laughter in shows so they can turn the show around faster, and not have to make everyone speak stilted waiting for the audience. As for how to deal with it in live streams. You drop the punchline and then "cut away" to something that reinforces the joke. The WAN show doesn't make use of features other streamers use to do this. The most over-used "cut away" people have is the spongebob "___ minutes later" one on the clip compilations of the same stream. "Soundboards" are historically used by radio shows to do the folley effects live. Like adding canned laughter to a live stream where there is clearly no audience, doesn't work, but you can just add any "funny sound effect" like the slide whistle, to take the edge off the seriousness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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