Chuck Lorre is known as the king of sitcoms with good reason, as he has created or co-created a long list of shows, adding Dharma.
Lorre spoke to The Wrap about the prestige of sitcoms, adding why multi-camera doesn’t go away. He also addressed the use of studio audiences for multi-camera broadcasts and stated:
If you’ve been on recordings, you know that silence is horrible, but it tells you that you made a mistake.
It’s hard to believe a faster reaction to a joke than an audience that doesn’t laugh, and it’s said that it can help Lorre correct his mistakes. His exhibitions are the only ones that keep multiple cameras alive among the studio audience, such as López vs. Lopez. and NBC’s Extended Family have done the same. In fact, the author of López vs. Lopez has gone to great lengths to set the record straight when it comes to not employing a laugh track, and Donald Faison was delighted to transfer to a live studio audience for Extended Family after nine seasons of Scrubs. Obviously, the format is not dead for Lorre and others in the industry.
However, that doesn’t mean it’s risk-free. Lorre joked that it’s a “wonderful guessing game that costs millions of dollars” so as not to use fake laughs, and then explained:
To be honest, I had no intention of listening to the laughter in the four-camera comedy because it was laughing.
Interestingly, Chuck Lorre has deviated from the same old format with some of his recent top shows. Before Georgie and Mandy’s first wedding, he explained the importance of finding a way to connect with the public. The Young Sheldon spinoff will be multi-camera, while Young Sheldon itself is single camera with no studio audience. Bookie (which is available to stream with a Max subscription) is also a single camera. Still, if you can take someone’s word for what works and what doesn’t when it comes to small screen comedy, I think Lorre is more than qualified after all the success of him.
It remains to be seen whether Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage will join the ranks of other Chuck Lorre exhibitions in huge, lasting hits. The Big Bang Theory canon suggests that Georgie and Mandy’s marriage shouldn’t last that long, however, TBBT’s continuity would arguably be more rules than actual regulations after young Sheldon’s changes.
If you’re among those eagerly awaiting the Georgie and Mandy spinoff when it premieres this fall on CBS, in the meantime you can revisit the early chapters of the Cooper family story. All twelve seasons of The Big Bang Theory and the first six seasons of Young Sheldon aired on Max.
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