Friends star Jennifer Aniston jokes that costar Lisa Kudrow “hated” when the audience laughed when taping the show. First airing in 1994, the series produced by Marta Kauffman and David Crane is now regarded as a single of the ideal and most influential sitcoms of all time. In addition to Aniston and Kudrow, the Friends cast incorporated David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, Courteney Cox, and the late Matthew Perry, with the series following their numerous exploits in New York City. Like numerous other shows of the era, the hit sitcom was filmed in front of a reside studio audience.

During a current interview with Quinta Brunson for Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” series, Aniston reflects on filming in front of a reside studio audience, which evidently came with some drawbacks.

Aniston, who played Rachel, jokes that Phoebe’s Kudrow would at times turn out to be frustrated with the audience’s continual laughing as she was attempting to get her lines out. Check out Aniston’s comment under:

“Lisa Kudrow, by the way, hated when the audience laughed. She’d be like, ‘I’m not done! It’s not that funny!’”

Are Any Shows Still Filmed In Front Of A Live Studio Audience?

Friends’ Filming Style Is Less Common Than It Used To Be

Back in the ’80s and ’90s (and back even additional into the 1950s with I Love Lucy) it was far a lot more well known for scripted shows to be filmed in front of a reside studio audience. Friends was joined by the likes of All in the Family, Full House and Cheers, and numerous other individuals, as a multi-cam sitcom filmed in front of actual individuals. It was these actual individuals, for the most aspect, giving the laughs heard on the show.

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Cheers capabilities a special disclaimer at the begin of each episode, which was added following the NBC sitcom received complaints from Television viewers.

These days, even so, it is far a lot more uncommon for shows to be filmed in front of actual audiences. Game shows continue to retain the practice alive, but there has been a move away from reside audiences for scripted programming. Saturday Night Live continues to be filmed in front of a studio audience, as it has been for practically 50 years, but there has been a bigger trend away from laugh tracks in comedies.

Shows like The Big Bang Theory, The Connors, and the Frasier revival had been all filmed in front of studio audiences, but the achievement of The Office in the mid-2000s gave rise to a new sort of sitcom and, arguably, a new style of sitcom humor. Eschewing a reside audience permitted shows to shoot in new and varied areas, and it has permitted for shows to succeed with a lot more off-beat, unconventional jokes. Friends remains a single of the most essential sitcoms of all time, but it is clear that even Kudrow at times felt the limitations of reside studio audience.

Source: Variety

Friends

Friends is the well known sitcom produced by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, released back in 1994 and ran for ten seasons. The show follows a group of six twentysomethings by means of their lives in New York City and their time spent amongst their two apartments and their nearby coffee shop. The show capabilities the group navigating difficult relationships with a single a further and comical misadventures.

Release Date

September 22, 1994

Seasons

10

Writers

David Crane , Marta Kauffman

Directors

David Crane , Marta Kauffman

Showrunner

Marta Kauffman

Where To Watch

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