Dr. Katz

[abbot lau]

I was watching a downloaded Dr. Katz on my computer recently (episode 106: 'Family Car') and was listening with headphones and heard something I had never heard before on the show: audience laughter.

It was particularly noticeable during the therapy sessions with the two standups (Andy Kindler and Anthony Clark). The dialogue editing was a bit choppy but here and there I could hear several people laughing in the background.

This raises the question of how these recordings were made... Did the actors/standups have a bunch of people in the recording studio whose laughing got picked up on mic or was the dialogue in  these 'Therapy scenes' partly sourced from recordings of the standups live acts?

It seems a bit of a sad, obsessive, trivial thing to pick up on but if there's anywhere I might get a proper answer (or at least some corroboration) it should be here.

Oh, and I am still in love with Katz's assistant Laura. It is to my eternal regret that I never had a girlfriend like her.

[Mr. Analytical]

Well I'm still freaked out by how muchy I resemble Ben...

[rudi]

Could it be the crew laughing?

[abbot lau]

Could it be the crew laughing?

Like in those old Kenny Everett shows? Maybe, but there seem to be a fair few people laughing and it wouldn't be too professional of a recording studio crew to laugh all over the stuff being recorded.

Unless...

these scenes weren't recorded in a studio at all but in someone's house? It was the first season after all. Maybe it was a bit slapdash, low budget etc?

There's certainly enough there to make me laugh out loud. The episode where they both dye their hair red by accident and have to call the 'henna hotline' for advice.

Ben: Let's call the henna helper lady, Dad. It's a toll free number.
Katz: Do you know why that number is free, Ben? Because she is laughing so hard at us...