Shows without laugh tracks aren’t funny? I’d argue to the death with you on that I’m afraid. I think IASIP is hilarious and they’ve never had one. Just my opinion

I’d argue that’s because it’s pretty much all the networks MAKE. In terms of scripted comedy shows. They all seem convinced you need a laugh track or the show just can’t work.

It’s not really choosing to “still watch and remember them”. It’s a lack of choice of anything else. Sitcom type shows without that laughter are pretty rare, at least from my perspective. Literally named the only two I can think of that fit the general sitcom profile in my OP. Scrubs and IASIP. Pretty much every other show I can think of has audiences and laughing.

Sorry, I wasn’t completely clear, I actually meant like why have a live studio audience at ALL in these kinds of shows these days. It just seems like such an outdated thing to me, personally.

I feel like I’d enjoy pretty much any show with disembodied laughter a lot lot more without the disembodied laughing.

And, I know, they’ve done clips of Friends with the laughing removed and yeah it’s creepy as fuck and weird lol but obviously that’s mainly cos the actors aren’t adjusting the performance to the lack of laughter 😂

It’s always bothered the heck out of me personally haha, I’m not saying I can’t enjoy anything with a laugh track, I also really liked King of Queens back in the day. But if I could be in charge, I’d take the laugh track out and have liked the show twice as much as I did haha.

I’m not so sure I could actually get into a show these days with a laugh track on it. It was easier to accept it even though I didn’t like that aspect back when there was less tv to choose from. Now if I don’t like the latest laugh track sitcom it’s a lot easier to find something else. So I don’t tend to even stick with em.

So you like it? Not trying to say you are wrong or shit on your opinion, everyones got one, I just don’t see what it improves about any show. It doesn’t affect my reaction to the joke that has just happened, I’m not gonna laugh just because a studio audience does, and I don’t need them to give me a second to finish laughing and focus back on the show on the jokes I do laugh at, because we don’t live in 1955 haha, I can just pause and rewind shit if I miss something. The laughter just does nothing for me but induce cringing haha.