TV Talk show with canned applause

[dustintv]

So I was flipping around the other, landed on some show called Every Day with Marcus and Lisa, which I suppose is CBN's answer to Regis and Kelly. I watched it for a couple minutes, didn't seem too shabby until I heard them using canned applause. I found it very amusing.

 

[PTBoardOp94]

Not that applause from a live studio audience is (usually) spontaneous.

 

[Garrett]

So I was flipping around the other, landed on some show called Every Day with Marcus and Lisa, which I suppose is CBN's answer to Regis and Kelly. I watched it for a couple minutes, didn't seem too shabby until I heard them using canned applause. I found it very amusing.

How do you know that was canned?

 

[Skynet74]

NBC used to mix canned applause in for all their Game Shows. There would be one particular voice who sounded like a cowboy and would continually yell YAAAAHOOOOOOOO! You would hear it on every single NBC Game show. It was quite funny.

 

[Tim-In-Houston]

It is very obvious, from watching re-runs on GSN, that (syndicated) Wheel of Fortune was using canned applause and whistles up through the mid-90s (the current WoF series running on GSN is from mid/late 1995 when they were still taping at Studio 33 - aka the Bob Barker Studio - at the CBS TV Center).

Talk shows, I wouldn't have imagined using canned applause. I imagine that show tapes in Virginia Beach, Virginia - where on a good day you might get 30 tourists (?)...not exactly studio audience material.

 

[justthenumbers]

It is very obvious, from watching re-runs on GSN, that (syndicated) Wheel of Fortune was using canned applause and whistles up through the mid-90s (the current WoF series running on GSN is from mid/late 1995 when they were still taping at Studio 33 - aka the Bob Barker Studio - at the CBS TV Center).

Watching the syndicated WOF as a kid in the late 80's, I always wondered why the audience sounded the same on every episode!

 

[jegrant]

"Every Day with Marcus and Lisa" is actually a production of FamilyNet, not CBN.

http://www.familynet.com/site/c.rwL5KhNXLtH/b.3833637/k.94E1/EveryDay_with_Marcus__Lisa.htm

That said, I have to agree it's funny that they use canned applause.

 

[mjlarochelle]

Bumper Stumpers, which aired on the USA Network, always used canned applause. They didn't even have a studio audience.

 

[johnnya2k6]

Bumper Stumpers, which aired on the USA Network, always used canned applause. They didn't even have a studio audience.

Other game shows I know that uses or used canned applause are...
Chain Reaction/Jackpot! (USA Network versions)
Merv Griffin's Crosswords
Supermarket Sweep
Shop 'Til You Drop (later seasons)
Temptation (the U.S. version; the Aussie one always had/has a live audience)
Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? (Where In The World ALWAYS had a live audience!)

Oral Roberts' early TV shows were taped at NBC's Burbank studios (with canned applause) before he established his own facility at the ORU campus in Tulsa. Around that time, Kathryn Kuhlmann did "I Believe In Miracles" across town at CBS Television City; she didn't need any audience -- live or canned -- for her show.

Jonathan Allen

 

[TroyG]

You forgot The History Channel Game Show-It too also used a canned audience. It also reunited Double Dare Host Marc Summers with it's announcer, Harvey.

Every Day with Marcus and Lisa is actually a production of FamilyNet, not CBN.

You're wrong! "Every Day" is produced by DayStar, a religious TV network founded by The Lambs.

 

[Tim-In-Houston]

Other game shows I know that uses or used canned applause are...
Merv Griffin's Crosswords

Very obvious that it does. No two audiences are going to have the exact same timber to their applause...which is/was the dead giveaway that Wheel of Fortune had canned applause way back when.

Supermarket Sweep

Was this the later PAX seasons? The first years on Lifetime had an audience because the players were picked from the available members (Johnny Gilbert would famously intone: "Who has the Lay's potato chips!? You're on!!"). Of course, that doesn't mean they didn't add extra applause in post-production (same for WoF, I'm sure there was a studio audience but for whatever reason the canned applause would be added. An especially ridiculous set of episodes (that I've seen re-run on GSN) was the packed house tapings at Radio City Music Hall when they made their first trip east).

 

[1069_KIFR]

I like it when the camera pans the audience. Be it a game show or talk show. You'll hear cheering and loud applause but yet you won't see anyones mouth moving, The number of people can't possibly make that much noise. So I know canned sound effects and applause is mixed in at post-production.

 

[mjlarochelle]

I like it when the camera pans the audience. Be it a game show or talk show. You'll hear cheering and loud applause but yet you won't see anyones mouth moving, The number of people can't possibly make that much noise. So I know canned sound effects and applause is mixed in at post-production.

I somehow doubt TPIR needs to edit canned sound effects in.

 

[johnnya2k6]

Was this the later PAX seasons? The first years on Lifetime had an audience because the players were picked from the available members (Johnny Gilbert would famously intone: "Who has the Lay's potato chips!? You're on!!").

There is an audience on Supermarket Sweep, but only for the first couple of segments. The set's too big to include them for the entire show.

As for "History IQ" (the History Channel game show)? I seem to remember a few episodes in which the audience (and a portion of Harvey if you look carefully) was shown.

By the way, Dana Calderwood -- one of "Double Dare's" directors -- also reunited with Harvey and Marc on that one (he's currently doing "Rachael Ray").

Another show that had canned applause: "Masters of the Maze" with J.D. Roth and later Mario Lopez; the former returns to TV this fall with "Opportunity Knocks" on ABC.

Jonathan Allen

 

[LKellerIII]

I was in the studio audience many years ago for a local LA area quiz show on KNXT-2. I don't remember the name, it was more or less a version of the GE College Bowl for teams from local high schools. That's why I was there - my high school's team was competing.

The audience was small, so in the warm-up, they told us we should applaud really fast...probably double the normal clapping speed. Apparently, that makes the audience sound larger.