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| From left, junior Kristen Stanek, sophomore Natalie Berrafato, junior Rachel Poirier, and junior Courtney Poirier |
Day-time talk shows want live audiences. When the audience laughs, people watching on TV are more likely to laugh, too. The subsequent boost in ratings is worth the cost of giving away free tickets.
Comedians are recorded in front of live audiences for the same reason. We laugh harder when the audience laughs.
In 1927, twenty-nine physicists gathered in Brussels for a conference. Albert Einstein was there, as well as Werner Heisenberg, Marie Curie, and Neils Bohr. Seventeen of the 29 went on to win the Nobel Prize. The funny thing is that most of them won it after they attended the conference, not before. They looked at the people around them and said, "wow, I need to step my game up." (h/t Seth Godin)
People act like the people around them, so it matters who you spend your time with. Choose wisely.