Arty Fletcher Special Exposed For Heavy Laugh Tracks
The hosts discovered Arty Fletcher's comedy special 'No Shame' is heavily sweetened with fake laughter, comparing it to sitcom laugh tracks.
The hosts revealed that Arty Fletcher's comedy special 'No Shame' — submitted by Benji — is 'sweetened very very very heavily' with artificial laughter. Once they noticed it, the host said 'that's all I'm listening to,' noting the remarkable variety of laugh styles inserted throughout. The hosts observed that the person adding the laughs seemed to place punchlines 'where there aren't even ones,' simply filling pauses with laughter. They compared the experience to watching multi-cam sitcoms like 'Two Broke Girls' and 'Big Bang Theory,' where laugh tracks mask the absence of actual jokes. One host noted: 'there's zero jokes in this... just people talking and then sitting in silence and waiting.' The special, which dates back to 2012, features Fletcher telling an airplane joke involving a man wearing a turban, telling him to 'pull that diaper off your head,' and calling a flight attendant a 'lesbian skyhawk.'