CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #537
Every now and then I feel the need to remind viewers that this show is filmed in front of a live studio audience. It is their laughter you hear on your TV. There is no "laugh track." We do not add artificial or "canned" laughs. If something isn't funny our job is to make it funny, not pretend it is. If anything, on occasion we will actually tone down studio audience laughter because it drowns out the dialogue. We have also been deleting their "oohs," "ahhhs," and "ohhhs" because it triggers Nickelodeon flashbacks in Steve Molaro.