MrXenonProductions no it isn't. I'm a fan of James Acaster but the constant laughter after every single thing he says, whether it's funny or not, is irritating. Either the show felt the need to put canned laughter into the video at every pause because the American audience weren't actually laughing at his misunderstood British humour, or the audience were awkwardly laughing because they were being told to by a prompter in front of the crowd.
+James No, it's a sense of...a rhythm that they start together. It's something American to clap at everything and then move on to the next bit. Or even clap/giggle at silences. In video's, where a daughter goes; 'Stephdad...will you adopt me?!' and the stephdad tears up....you will hear applause in the background from the family. It's a culture-thing. That being said, I'm Dutch and I despise it.
Widdekuu91 it's very mainstream, if that makes sense. Bandwagon type behavior. And when they "woo". They act like this for talk shows. It's not a concert, yet there they go.
Trunk McEight a fallacious and unnecessary observation. He doesn’t have a political set, so their politics has no bearing on their reaction. Also would identify as liberal if I had to and am ultimately distracted by the laughter despite finding acaster very funny. What you call an observation is actually, and ironically a politically invoked delusion so shut up and don’t try to politicise something which isn’t political: ergo, stop being a troll
It's TV. What you want reality? James is one of the few funny British stand up comedians. Ricky Gervais is not funny and most of the world doesn't quite get how to do stand up.
tarogue1 It's all good they come in a resealable bag as some people aren't as ready to eat apricots as they think they are, maybe next time they'll buy SOME apricots..
For those wondering about the audience, when you sit for a recording of a talk show, they usually tell the audience to be overly enthusiastic and laugh much more loudly and often than normal. Sometimes they'll even have a guy in between takes trying to hype up the audience and they'll even sometimes stop and redo takes if they feel the audience wasn't loud enough the first time. Most American audiences dont clap at every damn pause in the show like they annoyingly did here. I'd attribute it to poor direction from the production crew.
Interesting… I can imagine this is incredibly annoying for comics who get to understand the natural flow and dynamics of their audiences - it dictates the flow of delivery and they use the natural pauses for extra impact when a line is delivered. You can see it in this video, where he tries to wait for a pause to say “… there it is” but can’t because the audience is still clapping. I have seen it with other comics on this particular late show.
00:38 I thought he was talking about having a British host, but you can tell he abandoned at least 2 punch-lines mid-clap right before this... So he probably IS furious LOL. Way to adapt on the fly
I read through the comments, but one question i never got my answer to was: What did everyone think about the audience and their clap frequency? Guess I'll never know...
It's really bizarre that he was on Conan last year and did a brilliant set to incredibly awkward silence, then he does a pretty weak set here and the audience is in hysterics.
He's implying that James only included a bit in his sketch on gender specific terms such as 'he/she' to cater to the rise of extremist liberalism in society and especially the extremist liberalism that is rampant in LA.
I love James Acaster. His stand up reminds me a bit of Jim Carey's. All he has to do is stand a certain way or pull a funny face and people are laughing before he has even opened his mouth... Great stuff James.
Loll the comments made me feel relieved to see that I wasn't the only one who didn't laugh as often as the audience laughed and clapped, even during the pauses.
This is just a guess, but I suspect it got a big laugh because there was an item before him where people were throwing up on stage so it was a genuinely good and off the cuff joke. Not just a classic example of americans laughing at anything.
I went to a broadway musical in America a few weeks ago and was appalled by the audiences perception of when to laugh and applaud. I was genuinely frustrated and thus did not find any of it amusing. Are all Americans like this? If so, my god you all need a masterclass in comedy.
Hate to sound like one of those early adopter fans haha but I saw James gigging when nobody knew who he was. It's so genuinely lovely to see him doing so well, he's such a talent.
Oh yeah? Whats wrong with laughing out loud to a joke.?? Does it cost you something? We are not cool. But a pause that is funny gets an outloud laugh in usa.
debrabelz not really understanding your comment to be honest but just stating that Americans often don’t understand British comedy, there’s nothing wrong with it, just pointing out what I see
You’d have to be pretty stupid not to understand British humor. It’s very base with no nuance at all. Personally, I like lots of British comedy. Maybe the James Cordon’s producers were lighting up those APPLAUSE signs at the audience during the set, ya know, just to be nice 👍
Read some of the comments and am genuinely confused by everyone mad at the audience. You don't think comedians want this type of reaction? Every comedian would kill for this type of audience, ESPECIALLY when it's being televised. The audience is loving it! And rightfully so! James is killing it! And for people confused about the pauses, when an audience has this type of reaction where they just keep laughing or clapping or whatever, the best comedians do what James did. They stay in whatever bit they're doing and keep it going. For James it just so happened to be the funny pose he was doing. If it was a bit where he was telling certain part of a story, then he would have stayed in that part of the story and found a way to compound it, whatever "IT" was, before moving on.
It seems like forever ago but I had the great fortune of spending a summer in London. There I discovered panel shows like Would I Lie to You, Cats Does Countdown...and I was hooked. It was on these shows that I first saw James Acaster as a panelist and he absolutely killed me almost every time he spoke. Love this guy!
Might I interest sir in an all female midday panel feat. Whoopi Goldberg (bless her soul) called "The View"? Shuttle launches make less noise than that crowd. And speaking of space, one time they had Prince on the stage, and i reckon the clusterf*** of an auditory blast those ladies emitted is the reason aliens haven't attempted contact yet.
I love how there’s a just a cult following of this guy and every comment in this seems like it’s coming from a hardcore fan of his. And yes I’m apart of that cult too 😂
