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Comment author: EricHerboso 10 January 2013 03:03:36PM 0 points [-]

While I appreciate the recommendation and understand why you recommended it after just now watching it on netflix, I honestly can't get over this laugh track. How do people watch shows with laughs in the background like this? I find it not only extremely distracting but also a bit insulting to have the show give me a cue of when I should find things funny.

Comment author: drethelin 10 January 2013 07:14:53PM 1 point [-]

the sensation of being around people makes it easier to laugh. This is very noticeable for me, since I have room-mates. Occasionally I'll watch the new daily show myself and think it's ok, and then my room-mate will be watching it and I'll happen to be watching it with him and laugh out loud a lot more. Laughter is inherently a social signal. A laugh track can help trigger this impulse

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