Most easily swayed audiences in television history

I'll leave wrestling out of this, since I uncovered this daring speculation courtesy of the Onion that wrestling fans may be fake.

I've narrowed it down to Real Time with Bill Maher and the United States version of Whose Line is it Anyway. Now, I love the latter and have tolerated the former on occasion, but the most obvious thing to me when watching either was that the audiences must have had caffeine pills taped under their seats or perhaps there was some other happy chemical being leaked in through the air vents.

Whose Line was certainly a hilarious show with some inherently funny performers on it, but something as simple as putting on wigs or posing as Charlie's Angels would have the crowd rolling. The overzealousness wouldn't be complaint-worthy if not for the complacency I think it caused in some cases... I think that at times the performers would go for simple gags like kissing or touching each other because they knew that it was a shortcut to a hearty laugh. And also certain slapstick comedy that probably wouldn't have gone over as well on the UK edition of the show. I'm not saying the UK edition was funnier - in fact, it wasn't mostly because of relative lack of chemistry between the performers, bad scene suggestions, and Clive Anderson's penchant for hitting the buzzer too early. I just think that the US Whose Line performers pandered to the audience rather than showing off their improv chops in some cases.

I'll be brief on the topic of Bill Maher, but anyone who has seen it knows that the typical left-leaning audience will blindly applaud anything anti-Republican or anti-Bush administration. So much so that Maher himself seems annoyed at times that they lend even petty comments the gravitas of scathing wit. It's part of what makes the show hard to watch, for me.

Anyway, this may be an oddly specific point of discussion but I'm curious to know if any others have mentally flagged shows like this as having easily amused/impressed audience members.