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Did a touching ARIAs moment from Guy Sebastian just get canned laughter?

"I cry probably about 80% of the time that I sing this song," said Guy Sebastian in tribute to his late friend, Luke Liang.

This year was one of the better ARIA Awards presentations (hands up who remembers that one on the Opera House forecourt?).

But did producers add canned laughter when Guy Sebastian was paying tribute to his late friend, Luke Liang?

Choir, his Song of the Year, had been written in tribute to his mate.

“I don’t even know where to begin with this song…. I cry probably about 80% of the time that I sing this song, because there’s a special messsage that affects us… and affects a lot of people in this room,” he said.

But as part of the swiftly-packaged edited broadcast it appeared to have regrettable canned laughter as part of its audio sweetening.

Strangely in the YouTube video the vision pauses at the exact same moment, dropping out any laughter.

The 9now version is still intact.

Updated: Sources deny canned laughter being used but advise extraneous audio was outputted as a result of edit.

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8 Responses

  1. I didn’t watch the Aria’s, but so happy for Guy to take home Song if the Year. He is an awesome talent and is absolutely brilliant to see performing live. And he’s looking mighty fine, just quietly ?

  2. Guy did a fantastic job as host and I wonder if Channel 9 might consider him for other hosting roles now he’s proved himself.
    Last night’s show was a lot of fun. Sophie Monk, Agro and Bob Irwin were very entertaining and Tones and I, Human Nature and The Teskey Brothers were standout performances for me.

  3. The YouTube video is not from the direct TV broadcast. The picture and sound is inferior.
    It’s likely a camera pointing at a screen somewhere outside the venue, maybe a big screen, with a small audience watching.

  4. Canned laughter is far more common than people realise, even in shows with studio audiences.

    While I’m sure that a lot (if not most) of the laughter is genuine, the canned laughter in The Graham Norton Show is quite blatant at times, and it seems that HYBPA is guilty as well, at least in situations where the flow of these programmes would feel really awkward without it, even for lines that aren’t particularly funny (and hence why these sorts of shows are almost never aired live as it gives producers/editors time to embellish it for pacing/tone/outcome etc.).

    I’m perhaps a little sensitive to sloppy editing given my background, but to most, I imagine that most wouldn’t notice.

  5. Not a good look. I enjoyed the telecast last night and thought Guy was a perfect host. Bit unusual to see the host win two major awards though. Only thing is those moving visuals behind the presenter or artist got rather annoying.

    The winner is cards were awesome popping up the name of the person once open.

  6. I did find it odd that people would laugh at such a sad moment but I didn’t realise it was canned laughter so that solves that. I thought Guy did a good job of hosting the show.

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