Jay Leno Added Laugh Track During Sarah Palin’s Appearance
March 5, 2010 at 5:47 PM Leave a comment
From TBTM Julie, over at the DailyKos, who was in the audience on Tuesday during Palin’s appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno:”
They added laughter where there was none during uncomfortable portions. Well, there was some laughter. Mine, of derision. During those pregnant pauses in her performance I was laughing long and loud, couldn’t help myself as much of what she was saying was utterly surreal, ridiculous, hypocritical – nonsense, spewed platitudes, pushed buttons. I was seriously thinking of leaving as it was getting hysterically unfunny.
After sitting through the taping of the show in the studio I can recount many portions where there was little or no laughter or response, but at the later broadcast they are smoothed over with applause and laughter that WERE NOT THERE at the taping. Groans, hoots, grumbling, or just dead silence – all missing.
This is so low on Leno’s part. If the live audience isn’t laughing, chances are very good that the television audience isn’t laughing either. Make it real Jay. When a Sarah Palin cracks “jokes” that are ignorant or inappropriate, don’t legitimize her, or her jokes, by inserting a laugh track. If the audience didn’t laugh, it wasn’t funny. As TBTM Julie wrote, it’s “reality hacking.”
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