There's a lot of things that can ruin an otherwise decent sitcom. A cheesy script or underwritten characters is one. Cringey, outdated jokes or overused, tired tropes is another. But when it comes to ...

When was the last time you spared a thought about sitcom laugh tracks? Probably years. Maybe decades? Sitcoms with background laughter have seemed almost dead, definitely and firmly dying, for a very ...

Sitcoms don’t require emotional recovery time. They don’t require you to go on Google and figure out what happened in that 50-minute episode you just sat through. You can miss a minute or two, and ...

Sitcoms are comfort food.Laugh tracks. Running jokes. Everything resets next week.But every now and then, a sitcom would ...

In the 75 years since it was introduced, the laugh track has conditioned viewers to know when and how much to laugh Some audiences love it, and some audiences hate it, but the laugh track—which ...