The Death of Laugh Tracks 

the criteria for your comment getting pinned differs so much in every video that every comment is insane for like the first 2 minutes

Give Schitts Creek a chance!

All of this is meaningless. We all know Superstore is God of sitcoms.

I'm a nerd so most big bang theory jokes aren't funny to me bc I don't find the things I do for fun all that funny to just happen.

listen to the men from the ministry

Schitts creek is a special type of comedy, no matter where you start is shit at first But as you keep going it becomes comedy gold.

Try watching, Married With Children or All in the Family or The Jefferson's. Older shows supposedly filmed in front of a live studio audience. The race humor from both sides is brilliant. Nobody is spared from Archie, George and Al's barbs. And just so you know, snowflakes will be triggered. Baby's!

Unpopular opinion but modern family is pretty great in this. Sure some jokes can be forced but like look up modern family birthday flag and you will start giggling

Does anyone else remember 3rd Rock from the Sun?🤣

ik im probably stating the obvious, but his glasses are crooked, and that made me click off. sorry, drew.

When I was younger, I always thought that they made a joke so subtle my brain wasn't able to comprehend it. Now I see the other reason that my brain wasn't able to comprehend it...

Hey Drew u should really watch more of Schitt’s Creek, the characters really grow on you and mature throughout the show, and it really gets better as it goes on.

I like this video but I will be honest.....literally all of these shows consist of like.....only white people......next time let's add some shows with people of color as main characters. A show you could have done is "my wife and kids" I used to love this show.

jesus you really went for this.....7 hours lmfao we appreciate you

for me, tbbt was a show filled with stereotypes, sexism and sometimes racism but it was a time to shine for sheldon. all the other characters became less important near the end and they focused on sheldon's character development which i think they did good because i cried so hard in the last episode it was insane ^^

I thought i was the only one who watched Friends to sleep

Modern family is the greatest sitcom of all time I'll fight anyone who says differently

I think a great example of a compelling but also funny show is Stranger Things. It's about evil labs, monsters, and other dimensions but the characters and their actors are just so funny and likable it adds a whole new layer to the show.

plz watch fleabag... its so good

Mr. Drew Gooden, I beg no I’m pleading you to watch state lets flats on HBO max. If you do not have the streaming service hack someone and find there email and password for it because it is sooooo funny. You do not understand how much I love this show. Please watch. Thank you Mr. Gooden

the funniest show/movie i’ve watch is IT.. and thats a horror movie.

script of tbbt: sheldon: hello leonard *laugh track* leonard: hey sheldon *laugh track* sheldon: u sound like u took a pill of aluminium peroxide with dichromate... *intense laugh track for science thing*

I think Shitts Creek is a show you need to invest in, and start to know your characters more and more for it to be funny. Me and my family watch it while we eat dinner, and we crack up many times a episode

*In a world where you can stop time so the audience wont see you transition from stage to stage and have the ability to edit the show in the middle of the "live performance"...*

Drew telling us for 17min straight how Parks&Rec is the best show of all time, I'm with you, man.

Big bang theory sux I tried watching it but meh - maybe not smart enough

Stopped watching park and rec at season 6 because every character other than leslie grew and now had a story but Leslie just keeps nagging

If I can get one person to watch Modern Family after reading this comment, it will be worth it. Not one bad episode in over 200 episodes. The characters are so wellwritten im amazed. It's so easy to watch, the characters are so loveable and im guaranteed to laugh every episode. Please give Modern Family a chance.

2:56 I love using random number generators like that if I want a decision to be made for me :)

Tbbt was also filmed in front of a live studio audience

how i met your mother is my favorite show but not cuz its funny lmao

Brooklyn nine nine has no laugh tracks and is also perfect in almost every way :)

i dont like laugh tracks but for some reason i dont mind at all when its on That 70s Show i feel like all of it works together but they took it off netlfix bro😔

"surely I'll laugh a few times"... No, no you won't

Hey drew. Mental health sucks these days but binge watching your videos really makes my mood better. I’m glad you’re getting the recognition and views you deserve, and I’m always rooting for your success. Thank you for what you do.

Malcome in the middle is the best

7 hours of my life I'll never get back 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

there is too much math in this video 😀

Once I pointed out the absurdity of laugh tracks to my mom, she realized how odd it is and how annoying it is that every other second there’s a laugh track for no reason. She said she can never not notice it

That "boy who cried laugh" line was top tier

The it crowd episode is iconic. I laughed so hard watching it the first time oh my god

A good dumb comedy I recommend is Aunty Donna’s Big Ol House of Fun, on netflix. it’s stupid funny jokes for 6 episodes and it’s great.

My mom has been watching the same few sitcoms for 4 years and still laughs at them as if she's seeing them for the first time or even just getting mad at them even though she already knows what happens in them. And here I am watching the same shit on youtube or watching anime

You wanna know whats really weird? I don't hear laugh tracks anymore. My mind just tunes it out. Every now and then I'll realize there is a laugh track, but I just get so focused on the characters and dialogue that I just don't hear it!

You should have added classic shows taped in front of an audience with sincere laughs. Like "All in the family" or "Taxi" which I think may have had less jokes but they hit harder .

It’s always sunny in Philadelphia is prolly the best

I love when shows or movies that aren’t comedies can make you laugh, sometimes I feel like the jokes in dramas and other genres are even funnier because you aren’t expecting to laugh. My favorite recent example is the mandalorian. There are many moments throughout that show that were hilarious and actually made me laugh out loud but it never took away from the action. It’s not supposed to be funny, so when a certain scene makes you spit out your drink, it’s just that much funnier. The opposite can be said for heartwarming stuff in comedies. A good example is the office. It’s a very goofy show but it’s full of heartwarming moments and real life relationship stuff that’s actually relatable. You don’t expect a comedy to make you feel so much, but it does. No one who watched through that show can honestly tell me they didn’t sob their eyes out at the finale, and that shows that they got it right. They made it funny but they gave enough substance to the characters to make you care about them and that’s what makes the show so good. That’s why I hate Big Bang theory so much, not only do I not care about the characters, I actually dislike them so much that I want bad things to happen to them

Bruh you know tbbt is bad when it’s flipping spin-off is better

7:16 he looks like drew

Every character in Parks and Rec is the funniest character. I think it's so much better than the office. :.)

To be fair to the show schitts creek gets better each season and the last two seasons are really good

succession is amazing my guy need season 3 same with barry

Fun fact(I thought I’d never say that): most of the laugh tracks where recorded in the 1950s soo ur most likely hearing dead people laugh, no I didn’t steal that from Danny.....

breaking bad is a perfect example

I only like “Young Sheldon” because the story makes sense, it focuses on other characters, and there’s no annoying laugh track.

I think where the comparison breaks down between multi-cam comedies and (especially modern) single-cam comedies is that while multi-cams are almost exclusively episodic shows -- where each episode stands on its own story and there's very little throughline from one episode to the next -- you'll typically see a modern single-cam comedy stray much farther into serialized territory, where characters meaningfully grow from one episode to the next and a storyline will carry from one episode to the next, sometimes even over an entire season. Serialized or semi-serialized shows typically have to spend additional time each episode on narrative, which I'd imagine hampers the "jokes per minute" angle. I'd be interested to see a comparison adding shows like It's Always Sunny or Workaholics -- shows that are single-cam and exclusively episodic -- because I'd guess that you'll see even higher jokes per minute than with something like Parks and Rec or Schitt's Creek. I think that puts the shows on "equal" footing when it comes to format, and would highlight even more how a laugh track slows down joke pacing.

It crowd is one of the best shows ever also why is every comment her five paragraphs long.

How about genuine laughter?? It's not much...bom i'm a downmer

Schitt's Creek is more like a dramedy than any of the other sample shows. You can't really just watch random episodes and be into it, you need to be with the story. And the entire show is four huge redemption arcs for the main characters so you won't like them at first.

The show that without a doubt has the funniest cold opens is Brooklyn Nine Nine

There are a lot of great comedies with POC btw, your line up is super white.

i watch the big bang theory in german. ik you probably shouldn’t watch a dub of a sitcom but germans in my opinion are actually the best in dubbing and i only watch theirs haha 😅 anyway so pretty often in every episode i switch the languages and wow the original has soooo many more laugh tracks and way too loud too.

I want to personally thank the producer of the office for not putting in a laugh track

"You wanna be invested in what's going on in the Universe, because when you are, all the jokes are gonna hit harder" Holy fuck, if that isn't divine wisdom I don't know what is

YES DREW WATCHES SUCCESSION YESSSSSSSSS

Love how HUrun offers me a season of the Big Bang show based off this video

ew now im imagining parks and rec with a laugh track and i hate it

Bazinga

i think community is the most fast-paced comedy i've watched. the jokes per minute on that show is insane tbh idk how they do it so well

I love laugh tracks, guess im the only one 😥

for schitts creek, you kind of have to watch it from the beginning. that's one of the shows that's hard to watch when you just randomly watch one episode

Tbh I can’t imagine the experience a straight person has watching Schitt’s Creek, because I feel like so much of the humor gets lost in translation to a straight audience.

the big bang theory is entertaining though

You can still find weird Laugh tracks on Lily singh late night show :S

I did really liked Young Sheldon compared to Big Bang Theory. Because of the lack of the laugh track. And it covers more serious topics with some kind of things for us to learn about. Not just 20 minutes of absurd things and no one to empathize with

does anyone remember what drew’s schitt’s creek vine was called?? i cant remember it off the top of my head but im so curious!

Say what you want about The Big Bang Theory, but Jim Parsons is an amazing actor. The stuff he had to memorize and deliver is really impressive

Why no Seinfeld

I completely agree with you. Even if i learned to accept the laughs in TV shows, I was never really fond of it, because it breaks the rythm of the story and removes the "reality" Of it. Even for Friends, who is still one of my favourite humor shows (probably because of the memories I made watching it when I was younger), I admit it can become annoying. Nowadays, the humor-centered shows that I love the most are mostly Arrested Development and Malcom because they talk about family, and you learn to become really fond of the characters even if sometimes they annoy the hell out of you -- just like real family. Maybe it's because I grew up in France, and it wasn't really a thing, but I was never really fond of the "nerd guys" cliché. This was my rant lol sorry 😌

New girl is much funnier than friends. And it has no laugh tracks, incorporates feminism, important and relevant topics. I also love the office because it has intelligent jokes. Idk why friends or big bang theory make people crazy.

yall talking about sheldon saying bazinga but tbh he only says that like once every what 5 seasons like common only cause its a popular phrase doesn't mean he says it all the time and the laugh track just laughs also the word itself isnt that funny but the context always is and when he says it it just ties everything toghter

I get why laugh tracks suck, but I laugh so much more at shows with them than ones without them. I guess I do laugh when I hear someone else laughing even if I can’t hear what they’re laughing at, so maybe it’s just social instinct or something. But sometimes I want to physically laugh more than I want to stare at a show and objectively think it was good comedy. Not that I don’t laugh at all at shows without laugh tracks or vice versa, but idk. I like laugh tracks. I’m 100% willing to toss this into the bad-opinion-bin but yeah that’s my hot take.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is one of my favorite sitcoms because its comedy style is different than most, and I love the way they incorporate social issues into some of their episodes.

Watches Wandavision.

Live audience is great, laugh tracks awful. I love Malcolm in the middle much more because it has no laugh tracks just pure natural comedy.

THE CONES OF DUNSHIRE

The scoring system would be SO difficult with Trailer Park Boys.

Please do this again with live action Disney Channel and Nickelodeon shows. Sure, you'll end up in a padded room, but I'm sure it'll be worth it.

Why is "The Big Bang Theory Best of Guest Stars" recommended on this video

“Hi, I am depressed”

sir if certain details in this video were sort of a cry for help, i hope you are doing better now.

_Community_ has to be one of the funniest shows I've ever seen

That was one of the most flawed pseudoscientific methods I have ever seen. Loved the video anyways.

frasier vs seinfeld or the young ones would be interesting

I need Drew Gooden to collab with Ryan George in their ad of a hot dog on bread

it hurted when you didnt get schitts creek, like parks and rec, it takes a season to get it's footing, but once it does it is an amazing (almost cult classic) show

Sorry but in my opinion Big Bang theory does not deserve all the hate it gets, I think Big Bang theory is better the friends

I like your point on it depends on how you feel for what you watch vs the point of the evolution of television comedies. Maybe people these days have no lives and need to be invested in others problems because theyre bored with thiers vs back when laugh tracks were popular, people had lives and others problems werent as interesting to them so the shallow laugh track comedies were best. Is it social media that's making people so nosy and needing emotional attachment to even be entertained anymore?

Not one comment of its always sunny... I’m disappointed in all of you

There is a "The Big Bang Theory" ad on the side of this video. I think someone put it there intentionally lol