accidental feminist

old news: colbert on o’reilly July 10, 2007

I know this is old, but I happened to stumble across it just now (I had seen O’Reilly on Colbert when it aired), and I was absolutely blown away by the morbidity of the lack of studio audience. That said, listen for the uncontrolled laughter that intermittently emanates from, who, the interns? The key grip? Someone out there behind the cameras cannot keep it together. For more interesting musing on laugh tracks, check this out, or just watch “Arrested Development” and ask yourself if it would have been canceled if they had just prostituted themselves and thrown in a couple of guffaws.

I also liked the comment on one website I found in my research that suggested that we be conscious of the fact that, in many cases, the laughs we are hearing on laugh tracks are those of dead people. Hee hee!