TV Comedies without Laugh Tracks--Recommendations?

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@Bryan_Ekers

Couldn’t have been, or at least not consistently. Too much of the humour relied on three-camera sight gags like this one.

That’s not a fake, that was an actual Night Court bit.

@Just1Lurk

I’ve been to tapings of both *Night Court * and Who’s Line Is It Anyway? There weren’t any laugh or applause signs, but they did have emcees come on to warm up the crowd. The emcee for *Who’s Line * did say that audience reaction was always enthusiastic to the British version of the show, and if we wanted to come second to a bunch of brits, well -

BTW - it was Harry Anderson’s birthday the day of the *Night Court * shoot. Everyone in the audience got cake, Anderson did a little Q&A with us, and John Larroquete saw a cute girl in the fourth row and climbed over the seats to sit next to her. That actually got the biggest laugh of the night.

The laugh track seems to be a common misconception, even the Tropes page has a “studio audience” note under that entry.