Have you ever burst into laughter when it was totally inappropriate? If not, consider yourself lucky. There is nothing more horrifying than losing control and laughing hysterically in the midst of an ...

Critically reviled. Hopelessly dated. Forever near extinction. Yet in a TV landscape full of brutally realistic hits, sitcoms with background laughter are not only still popular, but have become ...

When American viewers flipped open the July 2, 1966, edition of TV Guide, they were treated to a bombshell story. This was the first installment of a two-part series on “the most taboo topic in TV,” ...

It was rare for a '90s sitcom not to have a laugh track. Which made it all the more surprising when Sports Night dropped the ...

I ran into an old episode of Hogan’s Heroes the other day that stuck me as odd. It didn’t have a laugh track. Ironically, the show was one where two pilots were shown, one with and one without a laugh ...