Three's Company did not air opposite of The A-Team. Remington Steele and then Riptide was its competition on NBC its final season.

Thank you! Not only it a live audience but according to the showrunner, they add no canned laughter at all to the live audience.

Announcing you are letting this go and then coming back to comment … that would be a sign of YOUR inability to let it go. And you keep offering up zero proof of anything. Just criticizing more sources and calling me names.
If someone means studio audience they should say studio audience. Laugh track makes almost…

You should really get your Mommy's permission before you use the Internet. Calling people names and stomping off is proof you need your nap.

No, you won. It was a name calling contest. Citing yourself as a source (as other people did) or citing no source at all or getting nasty is not proving anything. Other than that I thought it was a good discussion and I conceded that apparently now people equate a studio audience with a laugh track, which is confusing…

As you can see in other posts, I have expanded upon it with other sources. Also, one source is better than NO sources. Also, entering the discussion by telling someone they are full of shit is not particularly good form either.

Ha!

Previously recorded. Happy now?

When Todd VanDerWerff wrote for this site, he said, "The funniest shows of the era dominated by the multiple-camera approach—shows like All In The Family, Cheers, and Seinfeld—all used a live audience for this reason, feeding off the crowd’s energy to create entertainment that wasn’t quite a stage play, but not quite…

Wow. You are just vile. Read the sources again. They clearly position a studio audience and a laugh track as different things.
So let's say you are absolutely right and now laugh track can mean studio audience or canned laughter. Don't you think it's still bad writing to say laugh track instead of studio audience? Why…

And I'll be sure to take your word with no source at all. Since you apparently consider this to be an academic setting, perhaps you'll prefer: Soon after the advent of the laugh track, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz devised a method of filming with a live audience using a multi-camera setup. This process was originally…

And YOUR source is? Variety says the networks like to refer to them as: sweetened live studio audience recordings rather than laugh tracks. From TV Guide: I Love Lucy used a live studio audience and no laugh track. That was my main point, that people never used to use laugh track and studio audience to mean the same…

Wikipedia says: Laugh track— the term usually implies artificial laughter (canned laughter or fake laughter) made to be inserted into the show. So I guess it's you who is full of shit.

Well yeah, I have done a lot of looking into this. Just did some more and this is what I found: The term laugh track usually implies artificial laughter (canned laughter or fake laughter) made to be inserted into the show.

That is true. I would hope in most cases it was more studio audience laughter than sweetening.

That's fair. Traditionally though laugh track has meant canned laughter.

I guess it's hard to split hairs when it comes to the dictionary but I think it's referring to pre-recorded laughter. When virtually all comedies had laughter it was considered to be either a live audience or a laugh track/canned laughter. Now that most comedies don't use laughter I think laugh track has wrongly been…

New to me. A laugh track always used to be considered what you would hear on MASH, where there is no studio audience. A studio audience is simply a studio audience.

I have never heard anyone call a studio audience a laugh track before. Interesting theory but I'm pretty sure most people consider them to be different things.

If their showrunner is to be believed they never add canned laughter. A live studio audience is not a laugh track. Do you call live laughter at a movie or play a laugh track? Of course not. A laugh track is recorded laughs from another source.