| ▲ | Buildstarted 2 days ago | |||||||
I read a long time ago that Fran Drescher of The Nanny fame was huge in replacing those audiences with extras instead of random people. https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/flashback/how-fran-... | ||||||||
| ▲ | borski 2 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||
That’s true, but the article also explains it isn’t nefarious; she had a stalker (after past horrible trauma), and was terrified, so replaced the live audiences with extras. It just happened to work so well it caught on and became a mainstay of sitcoms after that. | ||||||||
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