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bttt.
Thanks, WinOne!

Now that this fun thread has been "demoted" out of "Breaking News," I guess that I'll have to get back to flogging it again, too!

From www.thrfeed.com:

March 05, 2010
NBC denies adding laugh track for Sarah Palin
NBC is denying a report that "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" boosted apparent audience enthusiasm for Sarah Palin's appearance by using a laugh track.
A report from liberal site Daily Kos is getting plenty of pickup saying the response of the live audience to Palin's jokes was entirely unlike what NBC aired. Written by a member of the audience claiming to be a sound engineer, here's the relevant portion:
They added laughter where there was none during uncomfortable portions. Well, there was some laughter. Mine, of derision. During those pregnant pauses in her performance I was laughing long and loud, couldn't help myself as much of what she was saying was utterly surreal, ridiculous, hypocritical - nonsense, spewed platitudes, pushed buttons. I was seriously thinking of leaving as it was getting hysterically unfunny.
After sitting through the taping of the show in the studio I can recount many portions where there was little or no laughter or response, but at the later broadcast they are smoothed over with applause and laughter that WERE NOT THERE at the taping. Groans, hoots, grumbling, or just dead silence - all missing.
They should bear some responsibilty for hawking a defective product. This is corporate shilling in the worst way, not only to raise Leno's ratings, but to push Palin on a crowd with fake laughter and applause.
Clearly the Daily Kos poster isn't a Palin fan (and would lose a spelling bee if given the word "responsibility").
Asked about the audio track, NBC replied,
"Neither the audio nor the laughs were enhanced for Sarah Palin's segments on 'The Tonight Show.'"

Hmm. If only the "NBC denied" list wasn't so long and fraught with strikethroughs and asterisk marks...
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...I dunno. No Palin fan myself, but this guy obviously wanted to hate her performance so much, I wouldn't put too much stock in his recollection of what actually occurred.
Eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable.
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I question all of the laughs, mainly because the audience was DEAD during her SNL appearance back in '08 (the only laughs Palin got were when a very pregnant Amy Poehler started rapping... so those laughs belonged much more to Poehler).
Also, wasn't Adam Lambert on the show that night?
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that many of the very fanatical Adam Lambert followers don't share a lot of overlap with the equally fanatical Sarah Palin followers.
The wording of NBC's response is curious, as well: "Neither the audio nor the laughs were enhanced for Sarah Palin's segments on 'The Tonight Show.'"
Why wasn't there a blanket statement just denying ANY use of audio/laugh enhancements for the show?
Singling out the Sarah Palin segments seems to imply that the show DOES, at times, enhance laughter.
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And why in the world would NBC want to make Palin look good?
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...It's nice to see another lie about Sarah Palin debunked (they always are) but the author of this deal just couldn't help themself at the end.
Man you lefties are scared of this little housewife from moose country! (As you should be)
Funny thing, Sarah was last on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien and William Shatner.
She killed with her spoof on Shatner.
The audience went crazy for her...